Thread: Crappie fishing at night

You should go with a neon light. It probably takes a few thousand volts or so to light the neon gas. If you were lucky it could "malfunction" at just the right time and send some "stray" voltage through the water.

It's a lot of fun and very relaxing. I started night fishing at Greers a few years ago, slacked off the last 2 years but I'm going to get back to it this year. I use some of the green LED lights and just the ol floating head light. They both worked great. Just fished around the lights with minners. No skeeters over there and no blazing sun. Had a light setup in the boat to work by. Real nice and easy. Probably start doing that sometime in June. The subject of night fishing for crappie doesn't come up on here very often.

I fish a lot at night on lake Norfork. We use a submergible starfire light. I catch shad minnow in a gill net. we catch everything, crappie, walleye, white bass, cat, u never know what next. It's lot of fun

I've got a couple 400 watt metal halide ballast lying around.... I'm gonna build a light like no other... Gimme a week or two to figure this out!

We used to do it during the hotter time of the year and i've tried the tube lights that are submersible and the floating lights and bugs weren't too bad. The old saying the bugs go to bed the later it gets is true too. I was out there bass fishing and running lines a couple nights ago and bugs were bad at 1st but later went away. I only had my cordless black light on though. As some have mentioned less people, less wind, and a lot cooler at night out there. I've come to notice though in the Summer they will bite whenever like the deer stir at high noon sometimes when you wonder why they won't stir at daylight or dark like normal those crappie may set in biting in the heat of the day. We got on the lake once back a few years ago at around 5pm in about 102 temps and really done well only to have the bite slack off as dark came. It picked back up around 10:30 though before a storm hit around midnight. I miss going out at night myself.

I love being out on the water at night after the bugs go to bed like constructskeeter said. Peaceful.

edit: thought I'd add that it is peaceful if there are no overhanging limbs.