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Location: Rhinelander, WI | I know this isn’t the best time of year for this post, but it’s something I was thinking about lately.
For those who have had success night fishing, is there specific types of structure that seem to stand out?
Do you normally just fish good spots at night, or is there typically areas that are better at night because of baitfish movement or the specifics of the structure that make it stand out at night.
Personally I haven’t had much success night fishing, I normally just fish spots I consider good. I am now wondering if it would pay to look for different types of structure that may stand out after dark. I know it works in fall after dark following the Cisco spawn.
What do you all think?
Nail A Pig!
Mike
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Location: Michigan | I look for places that bait fish are schooling on the Structure and fish them. Like rock piles and old bridges. Some of the lakes I fish are man made and some of the old road bed areas are good to.
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Location: Contrarian Island | for me, I don't really fish any spots at nite that I don't fish during the day....ie. if it's good during the day or you see or move fish there during the day...a great time to go back is at night...in northern wi. though some of my favorite spots are rock and weed humps that have deeper water nearby....love the humps that the rocks and or weeds don't come to the surface...if there is bait near that hump during the day it can be gold at nite....Dan Okray snd I were on a cisco lake we hadn't fished before this summer during a high skies type of day, there was one weed bar that I wanted to hit after dark. We moved one lazy 40ish fish there during 2 visits during the day but it looked like a great night spot. An hour before sunset there were no less than 1 or 2 musky boats fishing the spot so we just waited them out..sure enough all the boats fizzled out and were gone before it was even really dark....bingo, our turn. we headed over and had hits from 3 we missed, and boated 2 nice fish in about an hour on it...lesson was that a good spot can really turn on at nite....
I think in clear water and pressured water night time can really be a great time to fish. so to answer your question just fish spots you think look good enough to fish during the day...they may even be better at night.....
Lets hear from some of the other night owls...Htrain, Sloan..I know you guys are out there late!
I have become addicted to night fishing over the last couple years! Getting rocked on Draiders and blade baits is the bomb.
Edited by MSKY HNR 10/19/2006 8:41 AM
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| With me it varies from lake to lake. Since the bulk of my time fishing is at night I'll try to key in on what areas I want to hit after dark when it is still light out.
Some places those daytime hotspots are a waste of time. I'll look for subtle structure...small deep weed flats, slight rises in depth, current. Much of the time the tip off is making not of where seagulls or other birds are roaming around. Often I won't find a food relationship but there is something holding them there and many many times it is a red flag to a patch of weeds being below them, or some other subtle piece of structure.
I'll also look very seriously at open water. It's tough enough for some people to fish open water and it's tough enough for some to fish at night. Suggest combining the two to your partner(s) and alot of blank stares might follow, but try it sometime. You usually have to toss one of those other things in there (i.e. current, temp change, very subtle bottom change, etc) and you could stumble onto something very good. The majority of open water night fish I've had in my boat came from areas where something else is nearby, and I have yet to catch one of these open water night fish on baits running more than 5-6 feet below the surface.
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Location: Lake Tomahawk, WI | Most of our night fishing, this time of year, is done in the same areas (spots) as our daytime fishing. Deep rocks, breaks, remaining green weeds, suspended locations, etc. By deep I mean deeper than 10 feet. Wherever you're seeing clouds of baitfish on the locator is the depth to target. No real secrets on this one.
J.Sloan
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| A fishing question on a fishing board. "Wrong timing??!" What's wrong with this picture lol. Surface crawling a 10 inch jointed Believer (Turbo Skunk, Finlander, Night Shiner) is good, exact same colours work well trolling also. 10" Jake, Shallow Invader are good casting and trolling baits too. It takes a lot of patience, but you can crawl/wake the Invader real slow on top just like the Believers. Spinnerbaits are the same deal..versatile and you can troll them , slow roll them or hit stuff deeper. All these baits can stay on your leader all night and cover you no matter what you're fishing. No changing baits. Same spots as during the day, as the guys all mention. Open water between spots can be dynamite. Depending on the distances, you might cast across them or troll them. Rock and weed ledges or 'skirts' around low lying islands or reefs are probably my favorite. Right up against the bank, half way back or over the Canadian Side of the boat. One of my regular buddies does well on the French River trolling sutface baits like Super Top Raiders and Thunderheads just outside the prop wash, back about 60 feet, over water as deep as sixty feet. Fish can be anywhere, wet lure's usually the best lure. On small lakes the strategy might be a lot different, we fish big rivers/lakes in Ont. Slow down on key spots and keep the lures wet's pretty standard I guess. |
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Location: north central wisconsin | With the kid now, our night fishing has taken a big hit, but the wife and I still favored it when we were able to get out(mostly on our vacations trips to Canada etc) this year. I really like to hit the community spots that get pounded by day on the pressured lakes. Spots that used to produce big fish for people years back, or spots that were just producing a few weeks earlier and just shut off, are tops on our list. Even spots that are still producing during the day, sometimes produce better after dark. We have noticed though that pressure(or much of it) may not be what causes the nightbite, as we see it in canada every year. They must feed at night on any water more than most realize. Nightime in the summer is also when we fish a spot a bit shallower than we would by day. Because my wife is a topwater junky, I started moving up a bit with her when we'd go out at night. Up on top of the flats adjacent our usually plied structure, are some areas of choice, or the top of something usually fished next to. I used to use the deep running cranks and got fish on them after dark, but it just isn't as fun as throwing topwater or blades, and the fish didn't run as big(could have been the lakes we were on too). Otherwise we just fish the areas we fished all day, where we saw(or didn't) a good fish, and want a shot at catching it, that is if the bugs are not chewing my wife up to the point that she is chewing me out. One thing we noticed, is our need to slow the boat down after dark and really work an area over well. Just wish I had more time to night fish now, and wish more of my partners were willing to stay out.
One thing I have not done is try the bulldawgs and other lures of that nature after dark. While we caught good fish on them right to dark, I always put them away after complete darkness. Obviously after hearing from people here, and seeing some of the video footage, it does work. Do you guys prefer the shallow ones after dark, regular ones in usual spots? Are you using more of an inline straight retreive, or still working them as you would by day?
Edited by Reef Hawg 10/19/2006 2:56 PM
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| Shallow eye for surface crawling the Believers. (In the dark, on the surface, you will REALLY hear the differences in the rattles and "body click" from one production run "era" of lures to the other! Tiny BB's vs. larger shot vs. no rattles etc. Thicker body walls/materials. They all have different sounds. Newer Maina-Drifter ones have been working well) |
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| The local lake I fish is clear and pressured. So muskies move from deep up onto the weed edges and into shallow weeds. On a good night you can hear the muskies thrashing the water all over the lake. I use a Raddog Spinnerbait (two single hooks on those) because they seem to get thru the weeds very well and they catch fish. Exposed trebles on various other types of baits will hook up weeds over and over, that's too much downtime. |
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