Drop Light Fishing?

[SpringFishin]

Went a couple weeks ago with my son and caught 9 keeper crappie and 8 white bass. Have not been back since.

Has anyone been night fishing yet? If so what is the report and where at? We usually go to Cedar Ridge under the power line.

Thanks

[WakenLake]

Don't have the lights that are submerssible but fishing with a lantern at the end of the cedar ridge fishing dock has been successful more often than not. If the bite ain't on those last hours of daylight the lantern usually will produce some fish. Hope this helps, if you get a chance let me know how you do with the drop lights been thinking about investing in some myself.

[SpringFishin]

Well didnt get many posts on this topic so I decided to just check and see for myself. Headed up Saturday night and got to the Cedar Ridge about 6:45 p.m. and we anchored out in about 16' of water.

We went ahead and put our lights out at about 7:15 and started fishing with our minnows. As expected we did not catch any until it got good and dark. Bite really started picking up about 9. By 11 we had three limits of nice crappie. About 10:30 the bite was UNBELIEVABLE. After we had our limits we werent ready to go yet so we started the old game of "do you think you can catch them on this lure". And sure enough, it literally did not matter what you dropped over the boat every cast you would catch a crappie or have two or three good hits on the retrieval back to the boat. The fish we were catching on the artificial bait seemed bigger so we culled a few and headed home with 3 nice limits.

[zarraspook]

GOOD deal..... I don't start night fishing for crappie until mid June... Sounds like I am missing the big boat !!!

[WakenLake]

Everyone wants to catch crappie but it seems like theyd rather just go when they can pull them out. I hope my advice helped at least a little bit.

[vonreed]

Thanks Springfishin, I've been wanting to start night fishing under the lights and your report gives me some incentive to try. That's a good report and sounds like you had a lot of fun.