does anybody night fish for crappie?

**Takeum** · 05-11-2016, 10:38 AM

Just wondering,,,, I don't hear much about it if folks do ....Can you fish the Big 4 at night legally? Zi have seen signs at Butla and other lakes that they close at night,,,, but then alive heard they are open,,,,Need more input from the pros here,,,, anyone?

**Snubby** · 05-11-2016, 10:56 AM

The days use areas are closed after a certain time, but as far as I know all the boat ramps can be used after dark. I'm interested in others responses, I was just reading up on this topic at this very moment. It will be 105 in the shade in another month or so and night fishing would be a lot cooler that's for sure.

**slabin** · 05-11-2016, 11:28 AM

I dream about them at nite does that count

**crappie cowboy** · 05-11-2016, 12:39 PM

It doesn't work very good in muddy water, clear water is best on a dark moon...

**hotrod1** · 05-11-2016, 02:22 PM

Tried it a few times. Caught a few. Mosquitos are terrible. During summer the water is as clear as your gonna get. Shad show up by the thousands. It's something different to try.

**Takeum** · 05-11-2016, 02:24 PM

Common guys, is it legal to fish at night at Grenada, Sardis or Butla? need some old experienced guys here

**slabin** · 05-11-2016, 03:10 PM

Call the ranger office they'll be the ones to tell you all your going to get is I think or I had a uncle that use to do it is about the only answer you will get off a open forum

**Rees Guide** · 05-11-2016, 03:18 PM

Yes it's legal, as long as you aren't trying to access the lake from a closed area.

**Takeum** · 05-11-2016, 05:09 PM

Gotcha,,,, why doesn't anyone fish at night? I never hear people doing it if they do here...I used to fish in Nebraska at night and had good success with Walleye and catfish.... never tried crappie at night,,, any suggestions on how one might catch fish? LIghts? Minnows? Spider rigging.??? Lol

**bigcrappiemax** · 05-11-2016, 05:42 PM

A couple, three, or four years ago, I tired my hand at it. I was fishing at Enid and caught more than my share of mosquitoes.

I started night fishing using glow in the dark baits (that was the cheapest way I could find to get in) shortly after the spawn and did fair. I don't think I ever brought a limit home from it or anything, but if I catch one or two I consider it pretty fair. As the spring wore on, the few I was catching turned into none. Now, I ain't whiny or nothing, but if I'm going to get malaria, I'm going to have to catch at least one crappie. Sooo..

I bought one of them floating lights what's got the Styrofoam around it. I attached that puppy to a twelve foot long piece of pipe and stuck it out away from the boat. I anchored down out in the middle of Long Branch and let the light burn for an hour while I fought the bugs. Lots of shad come to the light and that's cool to look at for a few times, till it gets old. The rules say to fish to the sides of the light for the bigger crappie, but I had the best luck casting a road runner out and retrieving right next to the light. Maybe they followed the spinner in from the dark, I don't know but I always caught the fish pretty close to the light.

I quit doing it because there are easier ways to catch crappie. Those easier ways do not involve whole communities of mosquitoes.

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