Radical Fishing Idea For Trout

[stealthycat]

I've fished a lot at night with a light for crappie, and with those crappie come bass, walleye, catfish etc.

I wonder ...... a narrow beamed like in a deep hole on white river on a calm water night ....... would the trout come to it ?

[Randall]

In my somewhat limited experience nightfishing for trout, I've noticed that when I hit the water with the headlamp I stop getting as many strikes. The idea is definitely logical, give it a shot... at worst you have a slow night fishing.

[ozarkgunner]

In my somewhat limited experience night fishing for trout, I've noticed that when I hit the water with the headlamp I stop getting as many strikes. The idea is definitely logical, give it a shot... at worst you have a slow night fishing.

Over the years I have noticed that I catch more trout in the dark rather than around the lights. I think this might be because trout (except for the big ones) don't eat bait fish as a steady part of their diet. Thus, the rational for the light is limited to the trout feeding on fish.

[Gavin]

If you want to catch trout at night..Less light is best...Keep your lamp off the water, and nights with no moon are best. Cheers.

[Bird Watcher]

I have done it at Taneycomo..someone told Dad and I years ago that they were putting out lights to catch crappie on the lower lake, but all they kept catching were trout.

So off we go to put out the crappie lights and trout fish...I don't know why, I don't even like trout..Anyway, we ended up catching over 100 fish that night...best we could guess...Actually we got sick of catching them and quit...

maybe it hasn't worked for others, but we caught the crap out of em doing it.