Night fishing

[PapaD]

Since the water is to hard for me to fish I have been spending a lot of time reading the forums. I though I would ask if any one has done any night fishing on Palies or Ririe during the spring and summer months?
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[MMDon]

Palies is good for night fishing. Ririe not so much as it doesn't feature the nocturnal species Palies does.
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[prontotp]

I have only fished Ririe at night one time while camping on the dock across from the boat ramp. we caught a whole bunch (maybe 10 in about 2 hrs) of small trout until my daughter accidentally kicked the rod in the lake. this was during the middle of the summer.
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[lucabrasi]

I will definately be trying Palies this summer at night as I have learned about the night vision of different trout. I had never even thought about that before. I knew fish would still eat at night, especially under a full moon, but never even gave it a thought about night time advantages/nocturnal ways.
A long ways away but will post my findings.
I have always been more about just being out than actually catching but it has gotten extremely frustrating at Palies.
Geez, is this when I finally find out the secret to Palies?
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[iwantabuggy]

My favorite is float tube fly fishing at night. It is a real kick! I imagine it would be fun at Palies.
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[mudsucker]

[quote iwantabuggy]My favorite is float tube fly fishing at night. It is a real kick! I imagine it would be fun at Palies.[/quote]

Don't you worry about getting run over by a motorboat?
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[mikkfin80]

I have ice fished palies at night a couple of times by the dam and done o.k. We caught mostly cuthroats and a brown or 2. Fishing below the dam at night is where I have had my best luck up there.
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[PapaD]

So would a guy fish at night the same as you would during the day?? Trolling ? Same bait , lures ? Maybe find them on the finder and jig?
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[MMDon]

Jigging is productive on any of the points. It helps to have some sort of autopilot electric motor to stay over the fish. I have the big remote GoLights on my boat's hardtop. I can put one on the bank and one out front and troll off of large planer boards with sticks such as Rapalas a couple of feet off of the bank. The Browns are in chasing minnows and it's a hoot!


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[mikkfin80]

I have always used bait. Ice fishing we use jigs tipped with meal worms and corn. I know some guys that fish palies during the fall with lighted bobbers and a night crawler.
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[steelstalker]

I archery hunt across Pali. every year and we night fished a bunch this year. Bobbers are the trick for me. Sucker meat or minnows work best. I use a slip bobber like a steelhead set up, then you can keep changing the depth till ya find em.
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[drowning_flys]

I see a lot of guys do it at minadoka dam and watched them haul in fish after fish. they start about midnight and have a 24 to 26 foot pontoon boat they hang a bunch of green lights under it and from what i could see with binoculars they use minnows or rappalas. I would guess that tactic would work up there too the green lights attract the minnows and start a feeding frenzy
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[steelstalker]

Never used green lights? Good idea though. Whats the artificial light laws state in the regs anyway?
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[drowning_flys]

well as of last year any lights are fine submerged or not. I know cause i didn't think what they were doing was legal but game warden said yup good way to catch fish. there was a green glow probably 25 foot around the boat
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[MMDon]

They used to be illegal. $20.00 online. That reg was one that seemed to disappear along some bait restrictions. I think they called it streamlining the regs.

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The fluorescent green lights have a better light output and rating but are a bit more spendy.

http://www.fishinglights.com/fishing-lig...Series.htm
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[iwantabuggy]

[quote mudsucker][quote iwantabuggy]My favorite is float tube fly fishing at night. It is a real kick! I imagine it would be fun at Palies.[/quote]

Don't you worry about getting run over by a motorboat?[/quote]

Not until now. Thanks a lot! LOL.
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[mudsucker]

[quote iwantabuggy][quote mudsucker][quote iwantabuggy]My favorite is float tube fly fishing at night. It is a real kick! I imagine it would be fun at Palies.[/quote]

Don't you worry about getting run over by a motorboat?[/quote]

Not until now. Thanks a lot! LOL.[/quote]

The reason I asked was because one summer at CJ Strike we took a little rowboat out about 100 yards at night to catch catfish. Some big motored boat was roaring around in the pitch dark. He didn't get close to us, but I don't know if he could have seen our flashlight and avoided us in time if he did.
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[troutpimp]

This is an interesting thread, and I'm surprised that placing lights in the water is legal, it seems to fit the legal definition of chumming.
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[MMDon]

I think it came down to enforcement and problems with interpretations. Was a lantern an attractant light, how about a car parked on the bank with headlights, maybe a campfire. If you eliminate the restriction you eliminate the need for budgeting for enforcement.
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[CoyoteSpinner]

Seen stories of fall-night-fly-fishing for big browns on rivers. Using mouse, frog, - big patterns. Lost of protein as they bulk up for winter.

Catfishing is always popular at night. That's when the BIG lunkers seem to come out and play. Some fish are more geared for night vision - like the Walleye. Heard Crappie like the night hours too.

So if you're ice fishing, and your camera has an LED light to it - what then?! I can't see lights having any of the same issues or problems as chumming can introduce.

It's definitely a different feeling being on a water after dark. One of those times I like having the GPS if it's a bigger lake - so I don't have to navigate by the stars!