Night fishing tips: Details on how to set up for Night Fishing!

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Fishing in the wee hours of the night is peaceful and calming sometimes. But when the bite is on watch out! Excitement is everywhere! One of the reasons I love night fishing is because there is very little fishing pressure. Very few fisherman take advantage of the fantastic opportunities you have when you go night fishing for any species such as crappie, walleye, catfish or bass probably because they just don’t know how. You will be amazed at the variety of different fish you will catch at night even if you are targeting a specific species of fish such as bass. Today I want to give you some simple night fishing tips that will help you to become a better night fisherman.

#1 Underwater fishing lights.

Don’t go cheap when you look at underwater light sources, you need a good florescent light that generates a minimum of 25-40watts of power, and that will emit 1000 to 3000 lumens per tube.It is amazing how much plankton these lights will attract. These little organisms are the primary food source of most of the small bait fish that game such as catfish love to attack. When bait fish start swarming around your underwater fishing light they attract great numbers of game fish that are looking at an easy meal! All you need to do is cast your rigs out close to the edge of your light source and you are ready for an exciting night. And what is great I have caught crappie while I was fishing for catfish at night, I have caught catfish while I was targeting walleye’s at night, and believe it or not I have caught many bass while fishing at night!And it is my opinion I could of caught very few of these fish without a good underwater fishing light source.

#2 Surface night fishing lights.

It is very important that you have a good light source that projects light across the surface of the water. There are two very important reasons for this.As I stated above you need to be safe out on the water. Surface lighting will identify you to other night fisherman and recreational boaters. There are not many out at night but enough to cause watercraft accidents. MOST of these accidents are form improper surface lighting. The second reason is very important too. The light source will pro-ject across the surface and attract insects, yes I said attract insects! Insects attract bait fish and bait fish attract mare game fish! Just make sure you hang these lights outside of your boat so you keep most of the insects away from you. If you use a Coleman type lantern for night fishing make sure you shield the side facing into the boat so the light reflect back out and across the water. This limit the amount of insects that will attack you in the boat.

#3 Pre-Planning is important! Before you decide to go night fishing it is very important to do some preplanning. Make a check list of all the items that will be essential after nightfall. Also get out and scout the areas you want to night fish for the evening. If you have a GPS to mark them that would be great. If you do not have a GPS identify land marks that you will be able to identify after night fall.

Well folks that concludes my article on submerged fishing lights stay tuned for more articles on the subject of walleye fishing. May your next fishing trip be a success!

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