Thread: All nighter @ Green

Slabeye and I did an all night fishing trip last night. This time we actually found fish and caught fish during the night.

Water temp - 79deg
Fish caught - over 50 keepers (I kept a limit, all others returned)
Depth fish caught in - 10 to 20fow
Baits used - various colors & styles of Slabanator Jigs

Now, here's the interesting part : Upon cleaning my fish I discovered that the females still had eggs that looked like "normal" spawning time egg sacs ... and as you can see from the picture below, the males were still in tuxes !!



Very few "dinks" were caught, and most fish caught & all fish kept were 10+ inch fish. And, yes ... there is a "kitty fish" hiding amongst the crowd

Good report and pic. Nice mess of fish.

Good report. Thanks for sharing your outing with us

Thought I saw your truck at the ramp this morning when I put in. Glad you guys got on some quality fish.

Nice mess

Pappy the Sunday that it rained off & on all day I was there & a bunch of males still had their tuxes on. I believe the warm weather awhile back then the big cold drop in temps put a bunch of fish off causing a late spawn for a big part of them.

Originally Posted by Les Young

Pappy the Sunday that it rained off & on all day I was there & a bunch of males still had their tuxes on. I believe the warm weather awhile back then the big cold drop in temps put a bunch of fish off causing a late spawn for a big part of them.

IF they are still trying to spawn, they're doing it at 10+ feet. Personally, I think they just ran out of time to finish up spawning (seeing as how the egg sacs were only about half normal size) before the water got too hot for fry survival. They may just be in the early stages of absorbing the eggs, which is why the eggs were still yellow.
Not real sure why some of the males were still in tuxes, unless they were still guarding nests. The brushpiles we caught the fish from were the same ones that fish were caught from during the Fling.

Originally Posted by Les Young

Pappy the Sunday that it rained off & on all day I was there & a bunch of males still had their tuxes on. I believe the warm weather awhile back then the big cold drop in temps put a bunch of fish off causing a late spawn for a big part of them.

Meant to say the females had eggs too.

that is interesting for sure , they look to be in the dancing mode , one thing for certain , nothing beats some cool air and a fish ketchn party ..
KABOOM is the word

Nice slabs!!

What time do you like to night fish? Thinking about trying it.