Watergate and all, Just a KY guy that spent 1 week in February at the North end of the Big O a few years ago. Drove 17 hours to fish 3 hours/day,night for the week I was there. My friend had a place just north of the lake, on the river about 1/4 mile north from the bridge. He had a pontoon, generator, lights set up for night fishing in the river, (we fished from the bridge south to the lake). We caught our limit within 3 hours after dark, along with probably 50 other boats anchored along the river bank each night. We set the size limit in our boat to 12" and still got our 50 each night. So, if you fish the river at night, and there are not at least 25-50 boats out there with you, the crappie are not there yet. You CANNOT fish/anchor/drift in the middle of the river at night. So stay from 20-100 ft from each bank when fishing at night.