All nighter @ Green

Slabeye and I did an all night fishing trip last night. This time we actually found fish and caught fish during the night.

Water temp - 79deg
Fish caught - over 50 keepers (I kept a limit, all others returned)
Depth fish caught in - 10 to 20fow
Baits used - various colors & styles of Slabanator Jigs

Now, here's the interesting part : Upon cleaning my fish I discovered that the females still had eggs that looked like "normal" spawning time egg sacs :yikes ... and as you can see from the picture below, the males were still in tuxes !!

https://www.crappie.com/crappie/atta...604_072738-jpg

Very few "dinks" were caught, and most fish caught & all fish kept were 10+ inch fish. And, yes ... there is a "kitty fish" hiding amongst the crowd :ThumbsUp

Good report and pic. Nice mess of fish.

Good report. Thanks for sharing your outing with us

Thought I saw your truck at the ramp this morning when I put in. Glad you guys got on some quality fish.

Nice mess

Pappy the Sunday that it rained off & on all day I was there & a bunch of males still had their tuxes on. I believe the warm weather awhile back then the big cold drop in temps put a bunch of fish off causing a late spawn for a big part of them.

that is interesting for sure , they look to be in the dancing mode , one thing for certain , nothing beats some cool air and a fish ketchn party ..
KABOOM is the word

Nice slabs!!

What time do you like to night fish? Thinking about trying it.

Good trip Pappy

Wish I was there. lol. Very fun times.

Hey CrappiePappy did you use lights? I've been wanting to try using Livescope at night during a full moon.

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Originally Posted by Lund

Nice slabs!!

What time do you like to night fish? Thinking about trying it.

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On this particular trip we fished from about 730pm til 730am ... we did not anchor or tie off, but simply went from brushpile to brushpile and flipped jigs over the top of (and sometimes down in) them, whenever we saw fish on the Livescope. We tried this same process last year, about this time, but on a relatively moonless night & could not find any fish on brush during the night. We just wanted to see if the Full Moon was a positive or negative influence. The jury is still out, but we did find and catch quite a few fish during the overnight hours.

I have been known to tie off to standing timber and use minnows under lights, either straight down off the side of the boat or with a float & pitched out to the edge of the light being used. Straight down using a gas lantern (in my youth) and a float on the edge of the light using a floating 12v headlight in my middle age years.

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Originally Posted by CrappiePappy

On this particular trip we fished from about 730pm til 730am ... we did not anchor or tie off, but simply went from brushpile to brushpile and flipped jigs over the top of (and sometimes down in) them, whenever we saw fish on the Livescope. We tried this same process last year, about this time, but on a relatively moonless night & could not find any fish on brush during the night. We just wanted to see if the Full Moon was a positive or negative influence. The jury is still out, but we did find and catch quite a few fish during the overnight hours.

I have been known to tie off to standing timber and use minnows under lights, either straight down off the side of the boat or with a float & pitched out to the edge of the light being used. Straight down using a gas lantern (in my youth) and a float on the edge of the light using a floating 12v headlight in my middle age years.

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That's sounds like a great time. I've got to try that.

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Originally Posted by Greenwing

Hey CrappiePappy did you use lights? I've been wanting to try using Livescope at night during a full moon.

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We dropped a green light over the side about halfway thru the night, but did not see that it made any difference ... pro or con. We did, however, use a blacklight on the front of the boat to illuminate our rods & lines. Even with the Full Moon, seeing the rods/lines was not easy.
The green light didn't bring us a school of Shad up around it or at the surface (like when you're stationary for hours), but it did bring a small group following us around ... they just stayed deep. Then again, since we were constantly moving, we didn't really expect it to under the circumstances (Full Moon + constantly moving).

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Originally Posted by Les Young

Pappy the Sunday that it rained off & on all day I was there & a bunch of males still had their tuxes on. I believe the warm weather awhile back then the big cold drop in temps put a bunch of fish off causing a late spawn for a big part of them.

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IF they are still trying to spawn, they're doing it at 10+ feet. Personally, I think they just ran out of time to finish up spawning (seeing as how the egg sacs were only about half normal size) before the water got too hot for fry survival. They may just be in the early stages of absorbing the eggs, which is why the eggs were still yellow. :dono
Not real sure why some of the males were still in tuxes, unless they were still guarding nests. The brushpiles we caught the fish from were the same ones that fish were caught from during the Fling. :yikes

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Originally Posted by Les Young

Pappy the Sunday that it rained off & on all day I was there & a bunch of males still had their tuxes on. I believe the warm weather awhile back then the big cold drop in temps put a bunch of fish off causing a late spawn for a big part of them.

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Meant to say the females had eggs too.

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Originally Posted by CrappiePappy

We dropped a green light over the side about halfway thru the night, but did not see that it made any difference ... pro or con. We did, however, use a blacklight on the front of the boat to illuminate our rods & lines. Even with the Full Moon, seeing the rods/lines was not easy.
The green light didn't bring us a school of Shad up around it or at the surface (like when you're stationary for hours), but it did bring a small group following us around ... they just stayed deep. Then again, since we were constantly moving, we didn't really expect it to under the circumstances (Full Moon + constantly moving).

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Thanks for the reply.

Looks like a fun trip to me Bud. I have been getting the "Egg" shock treatment here on the Coast too. Our fish spawn in November-January but eggs are showing up every time I clean fish.

That was a fun trip of wackin and stackin crappie. Good job.


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Cool, but was any Slabsauce spilled! Just askin' for a friend.

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Originally Posted by Slab

Cool, but was any Slabsauce spilled! Just askin' for a friend.

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They were biting so well it wasn't necessary :Doh: ... but, to be sure, it woulda come out in a heartbeat if the bite had slowed down. :ThumbsUp

To lay with them all night long is an accomplishment in it's self. Glad you and a good trip.