Night Fishing for Striper

[jay bird]

Working a full time job and having two kids, night fishing is usally a little easier on my marriage. Butts you mentioned night fishing and I am guessing you are doing this in rivers/tailwaters. Have you ever night fished in a lake for striper/hybrids? Thanks

[Bill Butts]

Jaybird,

Yes, I've fished for stripers/hybrids and whites at night.

I've acutally caught a lot more whites at night but that is due to amount of time fishing on certain rivers at night that contain mostly or only whites.

Give me an idea of the area you are close to and I'll try to provide some suggestions.

I know a guy here in Springfield that has used the semi-secret name of Jaybird for a long time.

Is that you?

Keep in touch.

Bill Butts

[jay bird]

No it is not me I live is Cassville, MO. I fish beaver lake from a boat in the spring time, and the local tailwaters for trout. I have also fished for whites at night, but was wondering if there was any technique for fishing Beaver at night. I have heard of some people using an underwater light to attract bait fish off of deep channel swings at night, but these have mostly been live bait fishermen. Looking at some of your other posts I can tell you are a lot more experienced than I am in this area and appreciate your input.

[Bill Butts]

No it is not me I live is Cassville, MO. I fish beaver lake from a boat in the spring time, and the local tailwaters for trout. I have also fished for whites at night, but was wondering if there was any technique for fishing Beaver at night. I have heard of some people using an underwater light to attract bait fish off of deep channel swings at night, but these have mostly been live bait fishermen. Looking at some of your other posts I can tell you are a lot more experienced than I am in this area and appreciate your input.

Hello again Jay Bird,

Cassville is a great location from which to reach many great places to fish.

Regarding Beaver Lake, I would suggest you get to know Michael and Todd at McLellans Fly shop in Fayetteville and Steve at the Beaver Dam Store. Both have websites, too.

You are also well positioned to reach into OK for fishing the lower Elk River just above Grand Lake for whites and hybrids (they come pretty late sometimes even June), the Spring River above Grand Lake (never will you find so many Whites, and the Hybrids come in May), just east Miami, the spring white bass run in the Illinois River above Tenkiller Lake and the Stripers that come out of the AR River into the tailwater below Tenkiller Dam (small river, big fish, rainbows eaten like candy).

I don't know of a good forum or shop with fishing reports for the Grand Lake tributaries, but we hope to accomplish that on this forum.

The guys at McLellans try to keep up with the Tenkiller-area fishing.

Hope you will find this helpful.

Lots of great spring fishing to look forward to!!

[jay bird]

Thanks for the information. That tail-water fishing has really got me interested, 8-10# fish in current sounds like a great time.