When we go at night, we put out our own lights. I take a seperate battery to run the lights. Iwould guess once you get everything set about 20 min untill you see large numbers of bait fish showing up.
The lake we fish at night sits betwen 2 damns so once you figure the water movement you can almost figure the best time to fish. The more water that is pulled, the more aggresive the fish.
Plan on going tonight and fishing for several hours.
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