Thread: Fishing Lights

Originally Posted by wish4fish

I have fished at night under bridges only a few times. Does anyone tie up over sunken brush or do all of you only fish real deep water? There has got to be some baitfish around the brush right? And crappie?

brush is ok but im usually lookin for a point over deep water

Originally Posted by wish4fish

I have fished at night under bridges only a few times. Does anyone tie up over sunken brush or do all of you only fish real deep water? There has got to be some baitfish around the brush right? And crappie?

Well Im talking about fishing in Beaver Lake in NW Arkansas. Its a deep clear lake. Most of the time im fishing for White Bass when Im using lights at night. Although I do catch some crappie with this method also. I guess if I wanted to target crappie I would go up toward the upper end of the lake around the river arms. Most of the folks that I know that target crappie just fish on Bluffs. Brush has nothing to do with where they fish with their lights. The crappie in this lake will be as much as 30 feet deep in the hot summer. I like the water under the boat to be a minimum of 30 feet. Although I have slayed the White Bass with the boat sitting in only 18 feet of water. Most of the people who are tying under Hwy 12 Bridge on Beaver Lake are sitting over 100 feet of water.

Originally Posted by stinkies daddy

last July i dropped green lights off the rt side of the bluff on pt 5 and went thru a pound of minnows in 2 hours

i got 2 21" night stalkers from BPS and a batree from wally world 4 under 90 bucks. when tested i hooked both 21inchers up to a fully charged battery and they ran for 36 hrs before i quit the test and took them off the battery.
conclusion, i think its what u put ure faith in, white 4 u and green for me



these were caught by my customers in a lil over 2 hrs on the first night trip of the season near a dock in ventress

Well Ive seen some folks use green lights and if they are using live bait they will catch a few fish. But I dont fish with live bait because I can catch all the fish in the world with jigs so why spend the money on live bait? Ive used the green lights, and I didnt say they wouldnt bring in fish I just said they affect the way that they hit my baits. You know I wished I had pictures of when we used to target crappie on Beaver with a White light. Back when the limit was 20 per person weve caught as many as 100 crappie in one night.
I think I know that guy on the right in your picture. His name is Curtis. That guy used to go with me fishing at night for whites. If that is him and Im pretty sure it is. I used to catch about 50 Whites to his One when he fished with me. Using Jigs to catch fish under lights is not for rookies even good fisherman when they first try it find it difficult. The fish spit the jig really quick. But Ill guarantee you one thing green lights are no better than white lights I do beleive that the green lights draw fish in, but there is something about that color that affects them in the way they see or something. All I know is I feel Ive got alot of experience night fishing with lights, and I can catch the hell out of fish with white lights, and I cant hardly catch crap with green lights. Even if im around other boats with green lights I cant catch fish. Now if your using live bait sure you will catch some fish.
Years back I used to love it when a boat would pull in close to me and put out white lights i loved it when there were 5 boats all bunched up with white lights. We would absolutely slaughter the whites, but nowadays about 3/4 of the folks have green lights and it just takes one green light to just shut it all down. Ive got just one question for you Have You ever tried white lights?

Stinkies Daddy I know for sure that is curtis I see now you are from Pea Ridge. Thats where Im from Ask Curtis about fishing at night when he was about 16 years old for whites. The guy he did that with was me. Thats been right at 20 years ago. Im sure he will have something cocky to say cause that is just Curtis. I think I know the guy on the left in the picture also. And i bet I know you too. PM me

Oh the spot I was talking about where we had caught limits of 100 crappie Was Just south of the Water intake up By Hickory Creek in July. But back then the limit was 20 and there was no length limit. We also caught channel cats, whites, hybrids. Im thinking about going up there and trying it here in a couple days. Im not a fishing guide, but Ive had guys who Ive took fishing tell me that I should be. And I wouldn't mind doing that, but Its not going to happen right now, but maybe later.
Any more I just chase whites because there is no limit. Who wants to catch 10 fish and go home. I like catching 200 fish in a night.
And if I were to target crappie i probably would use minnows like you, not jigs. Using live bait you might not be able to tell the difference between white lights and green lights, but using jigs its obvious.

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Originally Posted by iivydriff

Oh the spot I was talking about where we had caught limits of 100 crappie Was Just south of the Water intake up By Hickory Creek in July. But back then the limit was 20 and there was no length limit. We also caught channel cats, whites, hybrids. Im thinking about going up there and trying it here in a couple days. Im not a fishing guide, but Ive had guys who Ive took fishing tell me that I should be. And I wouldn't mind doing that, but Its not going to happen right now, but maybe later.
Any more I just chase whites because there is no limit. Who wants to catch 10 fish and go home. I like catching 200 fish in a night.
And if I were to target crappie i probably would use minnows like you, not jigs. Using live bait you might not be able to tell the difference between white lights and green lights, but using jigs its obvious.

That sounds like the Nelson Hollow area, I've caught a lot of fish in there. I've never fished with a light in there. I probably will this year, there is a dock back there against one of the bluffs that has a. Dump truck load of cedars by it.

I've never dropped a light down there at the hwy 12 bridge. I've. Seen times when you could nearly walk across from boat to boat.

Good info guys. If and when I attempt to night fish it will be on Greers Ferry. My question now is..... do ya'll tie up to something on the bluffs or do you prefer to anchor and get away from them?