Night Fishing Posts

[Jason Essary]

K, thought Id start a night fishing topic to see if anyone has had any luck. Post any and everything anyone can.

Went last night for 3 hours after dark, toke my boy. We only got two to the boat, both short. Didnt really get into it as much as id liked but we were having a lot of fun. Nice and Quite after all the pleasure crafters had went to bed. All were caught on Nightcrawlers, as we were looking for a couple of cats as well.

[Martin]

Coyote, I haven't been yet but I am really going to make an effort this year to do some night fishing. The lake was a zoo, as usual this weekend. Daytime fishing is the pits when the funny farm gates are opened. lol.

[Whack'emGood]

My dad and I fished the KC area yesterday afternoon and into the night. I put the dropshot tips that I got from Captain Don to work and caught one really nice keeper Kentucky. I also missed a fish and then we got tired of fighting the rediculous player traffic and trying to keep our dropshots in view of the graph. I don't think I have never seen the lake that chopped up when no wind was blowing. We decided to go try a few not-so-main-lake main lake points that were somewhat out of the way of the players to try swimming the grub. We caught several fish (all KY) up to near dark... They were biting our grubs (4" smoke) just well enough to keep us interested, and well more than half the fish we were catching were keepers. We caught some really nice fish in the next couple of hours, including a 4lb. toad KY. Right before dark (as most of the player crowd was leaving the lake) we cleaned up the deck of the boat and got our gear layed out for the night shift. We fished the next three or so hours with jigs (black/blue) and plastics (black) and caught fish at a pace about like we caught 'em before dark... they were biting just fast enough to keep us interested. The fish we caught after dark were mixed SJ, KY, and LM about equally- and about half of them were keepers. As far as size, we had an excellent trip-- as we probably caught more keepers than shorts. I also had one really heavy fish after dark that I had hooked for about 5 seconds before my line snapped. I determined that my 14lb flouro probably had a fray in it that caused the failure, but the fish that broke it felt like a stud nonetheless. We had a pretty good afternoon, which I was pretty much betting on... but we were surprised how well we did after dark, after the bad reports we had been hearing. I am hoping that what we experienced was not a fluke, and that the night fishing is ready to really turn on. I can't wait to go again.

Good luck on the water,

Whack'em

P.S. All fish were released unharmed.

[tucker]

My dad and I fished the KC area yesterday afternoon and into the night. I put the dropshot tips that I got from Captain Don to work and caught one really nice keeper Kentucky. I also missed a fish and then we got tired of fighting the rediculous player traffic and trying to keep our dropshots in view of the graph. I don't think I have never seen the lake that chopped up when no wind was blowing. We decided to go try a few not-so-main-lake main lake points that were somewhat out of the way of the players to try swimming the grub. We caught several fish (all KY) up to near dark... They were biting our grubs (4" smoke) just well enough to keep us interested, and well more than half the fish we were catching were keepers. We caught some really nice fish in the next couple of hours, including a 4lb. toad KY. Right before dark (as most of the player crowd was leaving the lake) we cleaned up the deck of the boat and got our gear layed out for the night shift. We fished the next three or so hours with jigs (black/blue) and plastics (black) and caught fish at a pace about like we caught 'em before dark... they were biting just fast enough to keep us interested. The fish we caught after dark were mixed SJ, KY, and LM about equally- and about half of them were keepers. As far as size, we had an excellent trip-- as we probably caught more keepers than shorts. I also had one really heavy fish after dark that I had hooked for about 5 seconds before my line snapped. I determined that my 14lb flouro probably had a fray in it that caused the failure, but the fish that broke it felt like a stud nonetheless. We had a pretty good afternoon, which I was pretty much betting on... but we were surprised how well we did after dark, after the bad reports we had been hearing. I am hoping that what we experienced was not a fluke, and that the night fishing is ready to really turn on. I can't wait to go again.

Good luck on the water,

Whack'em

P.S. All fish were released unharmed.

Nice report. I'm going to try the Long Creek area tomorrow night. Just wondering if you caught them in the trees or out away from the bank? I've been struggling out away from the bank after dark.

[Whack'emGood]

After dark we caught a few up in the edge of the bushes, but most fish came a little further out. We were casting to the edge of the bushes, but most bites came about half way back to the boat. I would say most fish we caught were in about 20-25 feet of water. Also, we spent alot of our time fishing this one secondary point/shelf that is just covered with medium sized chunky rocks. The point slowly slopes down to about 25 feet and then drops to about 50-60 feet. Those fish seemed to be moving just up on the edge of the shelf to feed, as we caught most of them on top of the shelf, but pretty near the drop. Hope this info. helps.

Whack'em