Nite Fishing With Green Light?

[Chris J]

I just ordered a 4' green light and have never fished with one. I have just used lanterns and a floating car light around MDC brush piles( hit and miss but a great time none the less).

I was wondering if anyone has used a green light on Stockton this early in the year?

Does the green light work any better?

I fish around Cedar Ridge and will post on here when i get to go. I have the fishing bug real bad this year (all the cold).

Thanks for all the great posts really fun reading!

[straw hat]

That is a new one to me but I sure am interested also.

[Bird Watcher]

I run about 5 or 6 green lights and 2 or 3 white lights when I do it. The green lights work well, I don't know if they work any better than white, but they are definitely less battery drain. I've never had much success this early in the year, although I have tried it a couple times for walleye. I like pre spawn, spawn and post spawn for the crappie. Usually from about April 1 to Memorial Day. Personally, I like main lake points at the mouth of big flat spawning coves. It seems to me that you catch the crappie moving in and out from spawning in those locations. I look around a little for the shad and set up as close to the channel drop off as I can. Sometimes that's hard to do on Stockon because of the wind and bottom composition. It can be hard to get anchors to hold.

[Huckfinn]

well I don't know much about night fishing. But I was watching my outdoors that staw hat gave me the web site and a fisherman on there was useing a black light and a bright white light. He said when he turned the white light on the fish would scatter so he turned it off and just used the black light and he started reeling them in... But the problem he had was he could not see very good so what was saveing him was a boat dock he was fishing around had a bright white light on it. so he could see with its help. So your gonna have to have some light out on Stockton because there just is'nt any docks around with light.So my guestion is does the white light scare fish ? He was after large mouth bass, he swared by it that it scared them, but what about crappie, and walleye are very spoooky fish i here feel me in guys? Huck

[Bird Watcher]

well I don't know much about night fishing. But I was watching my outdoors that staw hat gave me the web site and a fisherman on there was useing a black light and a bright white light. He said when he turned the white light on the fish would scatter so he turned it off and just used the black light and he started reeling them in... But the problem he had was he could not see very good so what was saveing him was a boat dock he was fishing around had a bright white light on it. so he could see with its help. So your gonna have to have some light out on Stockton because there just is'nt any docks around with light.So my guestion is does the white light scare fish ? He was after large mouth bass, he swared by it that it scared them, but what about crappie, and walleye are very spoooky fish i here feel me in guys? Huck

Huck,

The white light doesn't scare the walleye or the crappie, or the black bass, catfish or white bass for that matter They just hang down underneath it. It's different because as opposed to night fishing for largemouth where the angler is moving along usually fishing relatively shallow, you are fishing stationary usually over some good depth. Here's what I do. I set the lights about 6-8 feet deep under my boat over about 40' ideally. you will see a circle of light surrounding your boat, usually extends about 15-20' from my boat. I try to toss a jig or minnow to the edge of the light circle and let it swing back to the boat. My theory is that the predator fish are hanging just under the sphere of light created around my boat, looking up for the forage fish attracted to the light(the lights attract plankton, which attract baitfish, which attract game fish.) Once the lights are established and the bait fish are drawn in, the game fish will be anyhwere all the way down to the bottom. I will keep the sonar running and you will see the fish move up and down, in and out of the lights.

Seriously though, it's a great way to catch a bunch of crappie, white bass and walleye and I have made it sound more complicated than it really is. Anchor, turn on lights, drop minnow, catch fish. That's about it.

[straw hat]

Great info birdwatcher. Do the green lights attract less bugs than the white ones?

[Bird Watcher]

Great info birdwatcher. Do the green lights attract less bugs than the white ones?

Well, it depends. I use the submersible white lights and they don't really attract bugs. Back in the day, we used Coleman lanterns and can lights off the docks on Grand Lake and they would attract bugs like crazy. Seems to me that as long as your light is submerged, you don't really have a problem with the bugs.

[Huckfinn]

Good stuff Birdwatcher!!! Never have tried night fishin like that. Sounds like you catch more fish in the night then you do the day? can you see the walleye's eye's down there very deep ? That guy was I was talkin about with the black light... he did'nt really like night fishin so of course he's gonna dog it... But I like the way you talk about it sound like it works!!! you got all the goods there for the game fish. So good luke drawing them in not scareing them off... Huck

[Bird Watcher]

Good stuff Birdwatcher!!! Never have tried night fishin like that. Sounds like you catch more fish in the night then you do the day? can you see the walleye's eye's down there very deep ? That guy was I was talkin about with the black light... he did'nt really like night fishin so of course he's gonna dog it... But I like the way you talk about it sound like it works!!! you got all the goods there for the game fish. So good luke drawing them in not scareing them off... Huck

Huck, no pun intended, but it's "lights out" on the crappie in the spring and depending on timing you can sack the walleye and white bass too. I have never seen the walleyes eyes that deep. usually I catch them off the bottom in 35'+ under the lights. You will see a lot of White bass, catfish, Largemouth and occasionally the crappie cruising around on the edge of your lights.

It's a little embarassing to say, but most of the time it's not really even fishing. It's just straight up catching If you want to fish, go cast jigs or jigs and bobbers to the bank during daylight. That's a little more like fishing. If I just want to put fish in the cooler, I get out the lights

The darker the moon the better, or at least if you have to fish when the moon is half or full, try to find the moon rise later in the night or cloud cover. Many nights I have had a hot bite die when the moon comes up. It tends to scatter the bait.

[Huckfinn]

Sounds good, Catchin is alot of fun I thought that the walleye's eyes would glow like a deer in the headlights... Im sure you see em when they are comeing up on the line... And Im a big fan of when the moon looks like the Dreamcast boy fishin from the moon before the movie starts... Its just a sliver of the moon that is when I nail the catfish at night. Thats all I ever have fished for at night is catfish off the bank... Never tried for anything else, maybe I will set up camp and stay all night this year with my kids... they would love that... Huck