Early Birthday Night Fishing experiment ...

[CrappiePappy]

to find out if flipping jigs Livescope fishing was doable & productive. We found out it's very doable, but proved not to be all that productive at night. Why is still up for debate, but the old adage of "you can't catch'em if you can't find'em" is still the top contender.
We found a few fish hanging around most of the many brush piles & submerged trees we fished (in the dark), but they were very reluctant to do more than nip at the jigs. We had no Moon until late in the night, and then a slightly less than Full Moon the rest of the night and still in the sky for the 3hrs after daybreak. Those 3hrs proved to be very productive (we caught 30 keepers during those hours).
It was definitely a test of wills & patience for both of us, as I boated a 12" Crappie shortly after we began fishing, then we went fishless until shortly after daybreak.

All fish were released (because "old forgetful" left his fillet knife at home)

Here's the recap : https://www.crappie.com/crappie/kent...fishing-2.html

[BuckeyeCrappie]

Nice report. My wife and I are planning to night fish soon. Your report is in the back of my mind.

[DockShootinJack]

Night fishing is enjoyable. I used to do it a lot more than I do now

[Les Young]

Pappy, I've livescope fished them twice now. Lastnight i tried it again & only got the nippers that you mentioned & never could get them stuck. I don't know what the difference is but I caught them pretty danged good last time i tried it & although i had some nippers then a lot would just slam it. I caught some of the nippers then & they were just real small crappie. I'm going to try it anchored up with a green light like i've saw in a couple videos to see how that works. The fish lastnight were wearing out what looked like a million shad on the screen & I could drop on them & get nipped repeatedly on almost every cast but i don't have anything to show for it except nursing a headache & sore neck while popping the ibuprofen today.

[CrappiePappy]

Pappy, I've livescope fished them twice now. Lastnight i tried it again & only got the nippers that you mentioned & never could get them stuck. I don't know what the difference is but I caught them pretty danged good last time i tried it & although i had some nippers then a lot would just slam it. I caught some of the nippers then & they were just real small crappie. I'm going to try it anchored up with a green light like i've saw in a couple videos to see how that works. The fish lastnight were wearing out what looked like a million shad on the screen & I could drop on them & get nipped repeatedly on almost every cast but i don't have anything to show for it except nursing a headache & sore neck while popping the ibuprofen today.

White lights for Cumberland, green lights for Green .... according to Slabeye. I don't have any green lights. All I've ever used was gas lanterns or the floating headlight.
Yeah, we saw a bunch of Shad schools in the first half of the spots we tried, but only caught fish when there were no Shad in the area (after sunup). I can only speculate that those schools of fish were out in deep, open water during the night. But, since we concentrated our efforts on known brushpiles/trees, we never scouted open water. We did jokingly mention that Pushing jigs might have been a better option (out in the open water), but that idea came about after many hours of not seeing any fish where we fished. I say "jokingly" because the rod holders and long rods were back in the storage shed (slabeye) or at home (me).

[Les Young]

White lights for Cumberland, green lights for Green .... according to Slabeye. I don't have any green lights. All I've ever used was gas lanterns or the floating headlight.
Yeah, we saw a bunch of Shad schools in the first half of the spots we tried, but only caught fish when there were no Shad in the area (after sunup). I can only speculate that those schools of fish were out in deep, open water during the night. But, since we concentrated our efforts on known brushpiles/trees, we never scouted open water. We did jokingly mention that Pushing jigs might have been a better option (out in the open water), but that idea came about after many hours of not seeing any fish where we fished. I say "jokingly" because the rod holders and long rods were back in the storage shed (slabeye) or at home (me).

Everybody i see is using green lights on Cumberland so hopefully they work ok.

[Ketchn]

been so long since I hit the water at night I have no clue , but my wife once said this about that ....
you say "they are biting on a full moon" !
you say "they are biting on no moon" !
and you say " they are biting at night on the other pcs. left over of the moon too" !

[TreednNC]

I've noticed since using live scope that until the sun gets up good, I'm chasing suspended fish. Before daylight, and until it's on the water good, the brush piles are usually fairly barren. If I had confidence in my ability to pitch/cast in line with my ducer after dark, I'd give the suspended fish a go at night.

[Les Young]

I've noticed since using live scope that until the sun gets up good, I'm chasing suspended fish. Before daylight, and until it's on the water good, the brush piles are usually fairly barren. If I had confidence in my ability to pitch/cast in line with my ducer after dark, I'd give the suspended fish a go at night.

Mines on a pvc pole that i put an elbow on top so i know exactly where it's pointed at. I painted the whole thing black except for a strip of the elbow that i left white so it would be easy to see which way it's pointed in low light. Works great.