Night Fishing With Submersible Lights

[fishingaddiction]

The wife and I are on vacation in the KC area. We bought a green glow light yesterday and set it up on the dock last night hoping to catch some fish. Within an hour we had all kinds of bait fish around the light including gills, bass and gar. We tried small swimming minnows, hair jigs, and some other small plastics all on 1/16 and 1/8 jig heads. Bottom line we didn't catch any fish.

Is anyone doing this? If so I would appreciate any tips. Thanks

[WettinLine]

Best advise is to pack your stuff and hit Stockton, but if your set on fishing TR with light live minnows and dark nights. I've never had any luck with light on TR but that's a good combo on any lake. I'm sure the LOZ boys will correct, or reiterate what I said in their bs slang.

[Old plug]

Try netting the bait fish. Then just drop them down on a hook and line. If they do not bite it. try it unweighted. I think they believe it is something falling that has been injured.

Lights work on LOZ. very well at this time.

[merc1997 Bo]

often times there is nothing like the real thing, and that is minnows. we often fish under the lights on beaver during the summer to catch whites and stripers. we normally put out two halogens, and green tube light. for bait, we use about three sizes of shad netting to catch the shad that gather up under our lights. we usually take some creek minnows to get started with, but they are not as good as the shad that the fish are feeding on.

you deed to try different depths until you find the active zone. fishing under lights at night is relaxing and great fun!

bo

[fishingaddiction]

I wonder if the bridge piers of the KC bridge in the boat would be a good location?

[fishingaddiction]

Thanks for the feed back guys. May be a tough deal on the Rock, but I agree with bo, it sure is relaxing and amazing to watch the feeding frenzy around the light.

[merc1997 Bo]

the bridge piers would work, but you would tear up everything you have with all the big boat traffic going through there. the big wakes off the big boats makes fishing under lights very hard to do on the lower end of table rock. you would at the least be taking on water a good portion of the night, and a good chance of breaking your anchor rope, and that is not good to have happen after you are set up and have bait and fish under you.

bull shoals is another great place to fish under the lights.

bo

[96 CHAMP]

I used to fish norfork years back with good success at night, and by the way why is there no forum on norfork lake?? I quess i wasn't looking in the right spot as i found the forum on norfork

[gatorbitu]

If you are after crappie under the lights, like others said use live minnows. I usually use 3 rods with light wire hooks and a split shot about a foot above the hook. I set one down 6' below the surface the 2nd 8' down and the third 10' down. Usually one of those depths get hit and I set the other two to that depth, if that doesn't work I go 2' off the bottom on 1 rod and 2' above with each of the two other rods. Stockton or Pomme have always been much better for me than the Rock but I have had times when you could get a limit of large crappie at TR in a short time. A great time for sure with good friends.

[jayates]

I catch alot of nice whites with the lights on the rock but not had much luck with crappie. Put lights out on stockton last night and caught 70 crappie.brought home 23 keepers between my son and me.