night fishing

[albright3]

Just exactly what are the tips and tricks to night fishing. A couple of buddies and I live about 3 hours away and come down about once every month and a half. We do really well during the day time but I have not mastered night fishing. There was only one time that my buddy did good at night and that was in outlet one drifting a copper john with glow in the dark indicators. I have tried wooleys and sculpin stripping them but have never had that much luck. Any insight would be awesome and also what should I use to catch alot of fish at night compared to quality fish

thanks for info

[Leonard]

Albright...

the next time you guys come down.. give me a shout... I be more then glad to meet up with you guys for some night fishing... (thusday or saturday night is best for me)

Leonard

[albright3]

Leonard, thanks for the reply

We just might have to take you up on that.

Not quite sure when next trip will be although we are leaning on the weekend of december 3

[hoover25]

I only fish at night to avoid the crowds. My tips would be: Leave the fly rod at home and bring some spinning gear. Use floating rapalas and experiement with different sizes and retrieval speeds. Heck, sometimes, I just fish it like a dry fly and let the current send it down a riffle.....surface strikes can be awesome. Another benefit is that you can cover a lot of water. Rapalas are the only lures that I ever use (except for the occasional jig from "Anglers and Archers") and I have always had good luck. Plus, if the they are running a lot of water through the dam, you can fish a bunch of spots that would be overly difficult with the fly rod.

This is just my two cents.

-Tight Lines!

[albright3]

hey

thanks for the input hoover

I tried ultralights one time at night but didnt give it half a chance(used a deep diving crawdad for maybe 20 mins) Maybe next time I will have to drag the ultralights down there(at least they are shorter and I wont be in so many trees)

[Leonard]

Albright...

I know catching a big fish on a ultralite is fun...

But if your going to fish a spinning rod at night.. you may want to bring a lite to medium action.. with either 6 or 8lb line... you never know whats on the other end...

as for as lures go... 1 1/2-2 inch floating rapalas..(in blue/silver, black/silver) are the 2 thats working best right know..

for the fly rod.. a #8 or 10 olive pine squirrel sculpin.. I've even seen some 1/128 olive jigs working good at night...

Then you have my favorite (the secret night fly)...LOL

[albright3]

thanks again for the input

Leonard, we still plan on coming down there on friday night(december 2) to sunday about lunch time, so hopefully i can talk to you on here right before we head down to see if you will be there

[Leonard]

It should be no problem for me to get out on the lake with you all that weekend... But the wife does work from 7am-7pm... so my fishing maybe only for a couple of hours...

Lets just hope there are not running any water...

do me a favor... check the moon phase for that weekend (and post it for me)... then I know what to bring... and what I need to tye up...

[albright3]

leonard,

i believe i saw somewhere that that weekend will be the 2nd and 3rd days of

a new moon. i will have to look again though to confirm.(the first quarter phase wasnt until the 11th i believe)

[Leonard]

Ok... sounds good to me...

But remember to bring some warm clothes...

I went the other night.... the weather man said.. 38-40 degrees...5-10mph wind...

there was ice on the eyes of my rod... and I froze the jewels off....

I only stayed for about hour and half.... but did catch 15... no really size to them