I'm looking for some tips on night time fishing, any help will be appreciated. Thanks
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I'm looking for some tips on night time fishing, any help will be appreciated. Thanks
I went several times during the summer, didn't have much luck though. I have one of the green lights to attract the bait fish, it worked very good. Just could not catch any crappie though, caught a lot of bar fish. I have a co-worker that did well on Caney last winter at night. They were fishing right off the bottom, single pole tightline with just a light in the boat. I will be giving that a try in January. Good luck.
I have a green monster at my pier its in about 23ft of wAter, I catch stripes and large mouth on crank baits till I'm blue in the face. I'm real wanting to catch these perch. I do ok in the day time but I haven't had good luck at night. I fished for 2 hours tonight with shimmers and jigs and did not get a bump. My neighbor caught 17 just before dark in the same place I don't no what I'm doing wrong or if there just not bitting.
You did nothing wrong, your neighbor caught em all.:biggrinQuote:
Originally Posted by Andrews
Must have she is 90 yrs old and fishes every day in great health. She has some sort of fish in her cooler everyday, waiting on me to dress them when I get home from work. She don't throw nothing back, I tell her sometimes ms Williams this is to small why did u keep that? She says you eat peas don't you!!!
Guy told us one day after I said put a few them small ones back for next year. His reply" You eat shrimp?" I said yeah, he said "Shrimp small too!"
This lady is tough on fish.
I've never done much nite fishing. Nite time is made for sleeping....
What water do you live on Andrews?
Keep trying!!
I live on lake St. John in ferriday
Watch U-Tube videos. the Crappie are caught in the dark areas outside the area illuminated! Feeding up, the light may help see small fish with damaged fins making them easy pickings
Should have known u tube would have been the way to go lol
I like to set up in 12 to15 fFt. of water usually in the mouth of a cove, and suspend my light about 6ft. deep. If no bait fish and other fish have moved in in 20 minutes then I move to another location. I fish in the shadows just outside of the light ring. I use minnows for bait. I used a green light.
I appreciate the comments I am going to try it tonight. St. John has a lot of green monster lights around piers, but I have been doing it wrong. I have been jigging in the light not the shadows, only problem with live minnows is the yellow bass and stripers.
Well the fish are coming into the light after baitfish....that's why I use minnows
I understand that lake is full of them little yellow bass. At night I use a hair jig to because they tear rubber up so bad
Reminds me of my sister in law's saying.."it's bigger than a butter bean!" They have to fish at my moms pond b/c she don't throw anything back either!Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrews
As for your question on night fishing. I would always drop the bait down to the bottom and come up a couple of cranks and just keep coming up a couple of cranks at a time until you find the depth they are holding in.
I really appreciate the ideas you guys have gave me, I am going to let this front pass and start back trying. I have been after them hard. I'm going to be in Monroe next week not sure when or how long but I'm diffently going to try them in bayou desire. I know some of them rich folks gotta have a light by there pier.
Here is a report. I have been catching perch at night, I started fishing in the shadows of my underwater green monster light. I catch most of the fish on shimmers, very few on jigs at night.
These are the fish Josh caught last night under the green light. The largest around 14".
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