Night Fishing

[Nick Williams]

This may have been discussed in its entirety already, but my quick search didn't find what I was looking for. What ways do you guys fish Taney at night? I've always just fished with some small streamers, like a pine squirrel leech, with quartering casts and slow strip back. Are there other ways you guys fish it at night?

[Lancer09]

I've nymphed the outlets but a few years back when they opened the flood gates right there as really filled in with gravel.

i let my streamers finish a full swing before i strip them at all. Let that fly get broadside to the fish without stripping it, and as it rises at the end of a swing i get bit a lot too.

just how i learned, and have done the best.

[Nick Williams]

Yeah, I let my streamers swing before stripping too, Lancer. I haven't however done any nymphing on Taney. Were you successful doing that?

[Lancer09]

Less so than swinging.

just tough getting a drift without being able to see.

[Fishingmill]

I went mousin one night when there wasn't any generation. Caught an 18 in brown. Otherwise, I just throw streamers. Going in the morning before sunrise is a lot of fun.

[Dylan Cluver]

I start stripping a few seconds after it hits the water. Slow and steady. Quick and short. Two quick with a long slow strip. Change up your pauses. Sometimes it's on the pause they hit, sometimes it's the second strip in the set. You should be able to pattern them after a few bites.

[duckydoty]

Nymphing under a lighted indicator works well at night. You have to know the water. Fish it during the day in specific spots and pay attention to your mends. Mend the same way at night in those spots. I use larger scuds and sow bugs at night than during the day. Some of the egg patterns I have used at night have been as big around as nickles. We called them Big Flamingo Eggs.

[Nick Williams]

Thanks for the responses, guys. I'll be in Branson for a few days later this week, and it seems like escaping to the water at night will be the best option. I was just curious if there ways to fish other than how I had in the past.

I've got some smaller leechy streamers to try out, a lot with the usual fare. Who makes a lighted indicator? I have some glow in the dark ones, but haven't heard of actual lighted ones.

[duckydoty]

You will have to make the lighted indicator yourself. Pick up small glow sticks in the bobber section at Wally World. They are 1/8 inch in diameter and 1 1/2 inch long. Also pick up some small crappie peg floats that are 1 1/2 to two inches long with a diameter of about 1/2 inch. You will have to drill out the peg hole a little and use the glow stick as the peg. I usually use a sharpie to color the foam crappie float black.

[Roger Craig]

When I used to fish at night, I used big sculpins and wullies, had some SCI ANG line that you could shoot a camera flash into and it would faintly glow.