would you anchor up with a light in the water or no light? Troll or drift? Deep holes or close to the pads. Going to go out this full moon (Saturday). Have never tried it on a full moon.
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would you anchor up with a light in the water or no light? Troll or drift? Deep holes or close to the pads. Going to go out this full moon (Saturday). Have never tried it on a full moon.
I personally stay away from full moon night fishing.........never really had any good
nights compared to 6 - 7 days after full moon....is best up to about 9 days after.
this time of year would look for 8 - 10 ft water close to the grass and/or pads...
or old creek turns in lake...
Fish are in transition to from pads/grass to deeper water.........females are still
laying out in the deeper water.. going to / from pads..
Males are in grass & pads only moving during happy hour (1 hr before dark)
Winds out of North - Northeast - East to me are best..for nightfishing, small ripple
on water, not dead calm.. Most spec's have not spawned yet in Kissimmee, but will
get on it this full moon, not to much in mood to bite.
My opinion only...
I have read that on the full moon if the sky is clear crappie will feed at night.
i have fished for them in rain, fog, clear and cloudy nights on full moon and it makes no
difference, must be something with gravitational pull with full moon.......they just don't
go full bore after the minnow. Have always done better 7-9 days after the full moon
Water temp means a lot - down here the baraometric pressure can move 2 millibars and
its shuts them down... ie: 30:04 to 30:06 and they will stop...when you can get the
pressure to run steady for 2 - 4 hrs they will hit good. optium time to catch fish is
when baraometric pressure is 29:90 to 30:15..........that is the top end of chart......
Again this is my 2C....and i'm not close to being expert at night fishing..........
Old Story: Location - presentaion & fish will produce a fine catch.
That's very interesting about the barometric pressure. I was thinking that if they go to spawn on full moon that it might be a good night. The water temp. here in the creek today was 67 and with the warm days coming up it should be 70-71 by then. Have to give it a try. You know what they say- Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back.
To many details for me.................if I was in the mood, I go and drop the lights and enjoy myself!
I go when mama says............GET OUT!
Last night trip me and Chris made? I was violated by a heard of garfish :eek:
Mama always said......you never know unless you try :)
I had that problem today stu at sante fe. The Gar are ACTIVE. and it sucks for spider rigging.
Oh yea, they sure can mess up an 8 pole spider rig real quick...........wreck havick
destroy, all the above and than sum.....sometimes a person can invent new words
not even close to a dictionary to say
Most consider themselves lucky to be able to cut & retie 3 rods out of 8....
I feel for ya speckhunter.
Make sure to give a report! I was thinking about the same thing. If you're going where I think you are I'd be real curious what trolling through those deep holes would produce on a full moon in March. Should be interesting. Have fun and watch out for the gators!Quote:
Originally Posted by 65pontiac
Started out about 1hr before dark. Got 3 nice ones in about 6 fow trolling to where we wanted to put out the light. Once we where all set up, caught 2 more. Then a hour later the moon game out and it was nothing but catfish and gar Doh All&all it was still a good night to be on the water. ;)
Thanks for the accurate report of "full mooning" for spec's....
Know how you feel, have tried same repeatedly sometimes a little better, but
nothing in high-light reels or to crow about.
Can't answer total question of the problem.....got to have someting to dowith
magnetic movement of full moon... other species of fishes react well to full moon
day time fishing...(bluegill-shellcrackers)
Try same thing only do it about 7-9 days after full and give report.... this is best
time i have found for the night bite
After you trolled did you just sit in the same place? Were you fishing minnows on bobbers? How did you rig your lights?Thanks for the info. I'm trying to learn how to night fish both to catch specks in the summer and to get away from the $%#@! jet skiers! Since I can't afford the gas to get to the lakes I want to go to I'm staying close to home fishing the creeks. Guess I got to get me one of those fish findin dogs like Fred huh?
Set your light about 2' below the water with a bobber setup. The light will reflect off the underside of the water and create a mushroom effect.Quote:
Originally Posted by specklater
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Here is a thread that will also help you
Night fishing tips 101
We sat for about 2hrs after the moon came up with the light on and about a 1 1/2hrs with the light off. I have floating light hooked to a 2x2 extending out about 4ft from the boat. Was fishing minners & bobbers. Then trolled back to the ramp with minners and jigs. Still had fun catching fish, just not the fish we wanted.
Has anyone used one of these night stalker lights from bass pro I am going down to Okeechobee this coming weekend and want to know if its going to put out enough light.
the above items are all strange to me for use at night fishing.........
We usually set up on an area, where there is a drop-off, try to set on angle of drop.
use one anchor in nose, so as boat will go out over drop and back to flat or beginning
of drop.... we use 3 - 250 hyogen lights - 5' up & 4' at 45 degree out over water.
on side of boat we use 4 -6, 125 watt energy indoor/outdoor lights inside of 8" alum
umbrella shields....all of this attached to 2,000 watt generator............... everything
set up to one side of boat..............on my 18 1/2 pro-craft i have 20 rod holders,
we do all vertical drops, no bobbers, no extended type long rods.......we use all
rods from 5' to 8'............1/4 oz. bullet weight suspended above #2 hook with tiny split
shot to hold it about 1' above hook, thereby, allowing minnow to swim around.
By using the one anchor, the boat will move slowly around flat to drop and back.....
allowing bait fish to come to light etc... etc...............vertical drops of rods, starting
at 10' down to about 5' down................
Thats are complete outfit..........works on kissimmee, east toho, medard, rosalie,
lake carleton, lake dora, lake beauclair & lake hamilton in Winter haven chain.
Works year round..
Hey fishin813, sounds like good setup. I think I might take that light back because it might not give enough light for us.
Could you please post a picture of that setup. I don't see how you have room to fish with all those lights! I'm sure it works I just can't visualize it.Quote:
Originally Posted by fishin813
I have a 16 foot boat. How many lights do I need to use? Is one in the middle enough?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob # 1
Will take pictures of night set-up -next time out so as all can see.
I have used this set up out of 16' semi-v Starcraft for 15 yrs, and now use it
on 18 1/2' procraft.... Works well on pontoon, and can add more poles out............
Procraft we carry 20 - pontoon 35 plus - starcraft we carried 14.................
Key is utilize all space......central location of generator, electric cords to above
lights and separete cords for lights over the edge of boat....
Bow man controls show.........trolling mtr, set up of lights, rear deck man catches,
swings fish around to bow man, fish is off and dropped in live well.
Will have 2 -4 rods already pre-rigged standing by, should gar / cat /or bass cross
lines up, causing a "cluster muck", cut them out, put backups into play. Again bow
man will probably restring messed up lines or possible stern man, depending on
weather, wind etc and time of night.
I was on Kissimmee this past weekend to fish the super moon. Seems like all the boats were stacked up together over holes 7-9ft deep that were close to the lilly pads. Hot spot for us was east of the canal at the mouth of the pigtrails that take you to the north cove. Mostly 5 ft deep in there but if you can find the small 9ft holes scattered throughout those lilly pads and set your bobber at 6ft you will clean house. Had about 15 boats around us doing the same thing during the day but at night had it all to ourselves. More fish were cought inside the lilly pads than on the outer skirts of grass by the open water. dredging in the canal has water pretty muddy on the north end of the lake and I dont think that helped us at all. used live minnows but would like to find out what color jigs are working well in the cloudy water
If you fishing in daylight.............of full moon, those boats stacked in there were after
the Shellcracker, as this was first full moon when water was in 70's and spawn was on
That started over week ago on Friday..............as of yesterday Shellcrackers are gone.
most i heard caught was 5............They were heavy in school bus area, (bank side
by pig trail to North Cove), on the Ridge (area to right of kissimmee river, into about
2nd cut from river to Tiger Cove entrance to state park) Philadelphia point not much
happening there. Grape Hammock on marker 3A was producing Shells.
Some were catching spec's also in pad area mentioned above by minnow-pitching to
grass line from pig trails.......in 4 - 5 ft water at very edge...............
You did not mention if you were night fishing ?????? cause pads become very quiet
after dark and/or "happy hour".
A lot of spec's move out of North Cove pretty much after February and into first week
of March. Heat of water up there.
The dredging of Kissimmee (big waste of money) is going to keep entrance to lake
pretty much riled up for several months.................
For spec's look to Bird Island & Rabbit................. Bird, Southwest side grass line
and first lane of pig trail running closet to bank of Bird.............
Few people venture to North side Brahma Island kinda a little southeast of Thomas
Landing..........out there about in 16' water....but working the edge there are some
dandies to be caught at night..................
Jig fishin this time of year, go with Mr.Crappie, kinda of a pink feather, hair combination
32nd oz....or a "Perfect Jig" - made by some guy over around Stick Marsh area.
two sizes, 32nd & 64th........ no color head, chat. wrap with blue feather out back
(butt)
I use this approach with 14' Deep-south rod / shakespeare micro 250SS reel.
The Mr. Crappie Slab Daddy 1/32 oz in Pink/Pink
http://www.sportsmansfactoryoutlet.c...7ed98e45_m.JPG
"The Perfect Jig" I believe thanks to some googling, but others can confirm...
Perfect Jig site
http://www.jimporter.org/crappie/jiggroupnewmay10.jpg
One light will work........depending on your budget two is better..........reason being
have one at the front and one at the back that way you will get a double wammie
Ben, you found them both............
the perfect jib i use the most is the one chaut middle & blue feather rear.............
two weights, i use the heaviest..........so as to feel bottom area easier..............
The slab daddy by Mr.Crappie, has the pink with kinda yellow feather tail...
Another for long-lining is the "pop-eye jig by Cabin Creek Baits............
biggest one they have - white head, black eyes & red feather tail, same comb with
yellow feather tail..................(tip with small minnow)