Underwater light works.

So last night a friend came to visit and wanna get into some crappie/catfish action. I went fishing in evening to see if crappie around but caught none. I decided to set up green light by the dock about 10’ FOW. Started seeing a lot of shad so I told him to drop the jig all the way to bottom and lift it slowly. A first few crappie were small ones 3-6” then the bigger fish follow. Got to show power of slab sauce once the bite kind of slow down. The fish bite right after it hit the bottom and hit it hard too. End up with about 40 crappie caught and he kept about 10 or so of 10-12”. Not bad for 3 hours of fishing, surprisingly no catfish to be found only one small bullhead. All of the fish caught were on bottom or only a foot off bottom.
I didn’t get enough of it, I guess, so I went out this evening and caught another 10, still on the same jig I use last night, white BG baby shad on 1.5 gram head.

its difficult for me to get "enough" of it myself :cheers2
p.s. use a loop knot and your ketch rate will likely double my friend :cheers2

Those BG baby shad are money! I've probably caught more fish with those in recent years than any 2 or 3 other jigs/lures combined. Nice catches.

Good job, thanks for sharing.

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Originally Posted by Ketchn

its difficult for me to get "enough" of it myself :cheers2
p.s. use a loop knot and your ketch rate will likely double my friend :cheers2

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Thanks, I’m also believe in loop knot. I normally use small snap in place of loop knot, otherwise I would use Rapala loop knot. I tried other like surgeons or Floppingcrappie loop knot but those make such a big loop. This jig was tied since last night and the easiest knot for me to tie is uni knot.

I have a submersible green light but has been a while since I used it last. I'm now seeing a lot of transom mounted lights available. I assume they are more towards making your ski boat look cool but has anyone tried them for fishing? To be clear I'm talking about something like this - Extreme LED Underwater Light - T-H Marine Supplies

Went out again last night, this time by myself. It was a fun night. A few 12” ones, all released.
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Are you fishing the outside edge of light or right in it?

Are your bites coming from keeping the bait on the bottom?

I tried this method recently, and attracted tons of bait, but all I could catch was gar.

I don’t want to claim to be an expert since this was the third or forth time using it. A guy who is expert show me the way to catch crappie under his halogen lantern. He pitched out not too far, and use counting method with light twisted when jig fall around the light ring. He caught a ton of fish that way.

I tried but never work, I setup light not too deep this time about 6-8’. The bite were coming from everywhere randomly. Most of the time about 1’ of bottom both under the light and outside edge. The big one 12” came from way outside edge with jigging tube along bottom. The bite is not as strong hit as last time, a lot of bite hit and swim up. I found that Crappie Sauce help a ton of getting fish to bite. It weird once I saw that many shads the bite slow down, I had to cast out about 20-30’ out and work way in.

About what time did you set the lights out and how long did it take for fish to start showing up?

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Originally Posted by Fly2bTied

About what time did you set the lights out and how long did it take for fish to start showing up?

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First of all, this is a spot where a lot of shad and crappie hang out. I normally don’t need light and still catch some. So my case might not be the same as most of you. It only take 30 mins to start seeing some fish. The light just help to bring fish closer. After about 1-2 hours when more school of bait fish start showing up.

Thanks for the reply.

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Originally Posted by Just_Bass

First of all, this is a spot where a lot of shad and crappie hang out. I normally don’t need light and still catch some. So my case might not be the same as most of you. It only take 30 mins to start seeing some fish. The light just help to bring fish closer. After about 1-2 hours when more school of bait fish start showing up.

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Well for me lights just definitely make catching faster.

I have kept a green underwater light on at my slip at night for years. It's good for crappie and white bass. You can see the white bass swimming in the light. The crappie stays in the shadows of the light. They may be in the deeper water under the light circle or along the edges of the light circles.

I only turned it off was when I slept in my houseboat. I would turn it off then at midnight due to all the boats that would fish the green light at night while I was trying to sleep. I don't mind people in boats fishing my green light if they are quiet and didn't wake up those sleep in their houseboats. Unfortunately too many show no respect for those who provide the green lights when they fished the green lights late at night.