Green light fishing

Needing some opinions, I’m new to the whole green light thing,went to taylorsville late afternoon planning on fishing overnight. Found my spot, caught a few decent ones and plenty of shorts. With dark coming I drop the green light. Was sitting in 20 ft of water catching these guys at 18 ft. My light will drop to 20 ft. I set it at 18 ft and started the waiting game. Plenty of fish on the screen but no takers, fished til 10 a m next morning caught 2 shorts and a catfish from dark til daylight. Did I have my light too deep ? The fish didn’t come up in the water column like I thought they would, had plenty of baitfish around. Not sure if the old fashioned white floating light was all that bad after all. What do ya think ?

I’m by far no expert but I’m thinking that’s sorta deep for the light.

I never did understand the purpose of placing lights "down deep". :scratchhead
I thought the whole purpose of the lights was to draw in Shad, thus drawing attention of the fish to "come to" or "come up to" the outer or lower edges of the schooling/circling Shad school. If that's the case, then why would I want to put the Shad school right in the face of the fish, thus giving them a buffet to chose from while my baits are lost in the mix ??

Now, I will admit that most all of my night Crappie fishing events has been with gas lantern light (back in the day) and surface lights (in more recent years), and that may be a factor in my reasoning.

Aside from a deep thermocline keeping the fish from coming up closer to the surface and staying down in the cooler water, I really can't see why lights need to be placed deeper than from the surface to a few feet down. :dono

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Originally Posted by CrappiePappy

I never did understand the purpose of placing lights "down deep". :scratchhead
I thought the whole purpose of the lights was to draw in Shad, thus drawing attention of the fish to "come to" or "come up to" the outer or lower edges of the schooling/circling Shad school. If that's the case, then why would I want to put the Shad school right in the face of the fish, thus giving them a buffet to chose from while my baits are lost in the mix ??

Now, I will admit that most all of my night Crappie fishing events has been with gas lantern light (back in the day) and surface lights (in more recent years), and that may be a factor in my reasoning.

Aside from a deep thermocline keeping the fish from coming up closer to the surface and staying down in the cooler water, I really can't see why lights need to be placed deeper than from the surface to a few feet down. :dono

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Well I’m with you. The old headlight used to float on the surface and we would always catch fish. I’m gonna try again real soon and I’m gonna put that green light at just a few feet and see what gives. The surface temp that day was 74. Not hot. There was a whole lot of boat traffic. Maybe they decided deeper was safer. It’s always nice to be fishin at night when there’s a gazillion stars.

One other thing to consider is .... how much Moon is gonna be shinin' & when does it rise/fall. Never really had near as much luck on bright Moon nights as darker ones.

I’ve fished with all kinds of lights. I never wanted mine over 10 feet deep or half of the water depth if less than 20 feet.


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