How many of you like night fishing?

[ChrisL2700]

We live right on the lake here and we exclusively fish walleyes at night when they move up into the shallow weed edges to feed. Usually a very enjoyable time for us - all the jet skis and powerboats are gone off the lake, on 4,000 acres of water there might be only us and one or two other boats on the lake. Wife and I have been doing it for 30+ years, we have our boat equipped with red LED deck lighting, sometimes if we end up 15 or 20 miles from our dock at midnight to 1:00 in the morning and get caught in fog, we'll spend the entire night on the lake and come in in the morning.

Very peaceful, many times we don't care if we catch any walleyes or not, if it's a clear night it's incredibly beautiful out there on the water at night.

Grew up fishing Lower Clam and Ghost, dam.. I miss that area. Haven't been up there since '90 or '91.
That whole area is beautiful. Sad to hear from friends, a lot has changed over the years. But, it happens. I'm sure there's still a few spots to hide from crazy vacationers.
Hope to get up your way next spring.
Being a 7 hour ride, it's a little rough, just taking a few days up there. Would have to be a full week, to be worth it for me again.

I started hitting Winnebago System, less than 3 hours away.
Still, pretty cool when your the only one out, in the middle of the night, and the lake is like glass.

I tend to fish early and late. Let the jet ski's and party boaters have the lake while sun's beating down.
Something special about sitting in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by water, and not a soul around. Even better when you find a nice little fishing hole, and you come in at sun up, with a cooler full of fish.

Thanks for reminding me about that area.

 

[sonny1]

Stealing fish is right up there with stealing cattle. If you get caught by fish and game they take your boat and car. The local officer is well known to go after people that mess with jugs and trout lines. It is not uncommon to be checking lines and have a fish and game officer pull up and verify name and address on equipment.

 

[Douglasdzaster]

Stealing fish is right up there with stealing cattle. If you get caught by fish and game they take your boat and car. The local officer is well known to go after people that mess with jugs and trout lines. It is not uncommon to be checking lines and have a fish and game officer pull up and verify name and address on equipment.

Like I said I’ve been thinking of putting out a bunch of jugs in Fayette county and watch and take pictures. We’re aloud to have 100 hooks in the water total. That would be a lot of jugs in that little lake. It was that way when I lived on Lake Limestone. I fished there and wasn’t far from a bigger lake Richland Chambers. Caught many of 30+ lbs. blue cats on that lake. A few out of Limestone. It was my catch and eat lake. Bunch of channel cat and crappie.
That was when I was running a 20’ Triton bass boat with a 225 Merc.
I was on Limestone and had some jugs soaking by the dam and some half way up the lake drifting through power line pylons .
I checked my jugs by the dam then wot to the power lines. I checked the las jug and got in the seat to start the boat and I heard a bunch of shouting. I looked and it was a ranger and a warden in an aluminum boat.
They pulled along side and said they tried to stop me by the dam but I was gone and said if I would have took off again they where afraid they’d never see me again.
They checked my license and I’d. Checked one of my jugs and I forgot to put the date on them. Luckily I had all my other stuff together including my safety equipment. I got a verbal about the dates on the jugs and I’ve never forgot to date them again.

 

[Douglasdzaster]

If it is I’m not telling a soul around here. Everyone tells me there No catfish in there but I’m thinking there has to be they just need to be hunted down.
The next catfish lake is over an hour away. It would be nice to catch them 20 minutes away.