Night fishing with lights

[mongo82]

About night fishing
I've caught more fish under a light than I ever have during the day, with that being said I have also used a light at night and never caught a fish and couldn't figure out why until? Had the paper graph on and it was totally blacked out, thought something wrong with unit so I turned off, turned back on and still blacked out, turned lights off, Graph cleared up! Turn lights back on and was watching graph start to turn black again, there was so many bait fish they actually filled the paper! What gets me to wonder how does one catch a fish when there is so much bait around your boat and light?? Amazing!

[Bob # 1]

Fish the outer edges of the light source, your game fish are preditors and will attack running into the light.
Sounds like shad moving into your light, as zooplanton can not move that fast to fill up your graph paper

[Bigbill]

yeah nothing like catching a crappie going full throttle thru the bait.