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Thinking about heading out to Cumberland about midnight and do some night fishing for stripers up in the creeks then fish for smallies with the fly at morning. Meeting Justinhall tomorrow to pick up a boat cover and thought I would make a full trip of it. Just wondering if I am a complete and total idiot for thinking about doing this or is there just a chance it may work. Anyone ever done this in January?
Bucktails, slivers, deep cranks can all produce this time of year at night. Red clay banks back in the creeks. Have not been in a while, but in year's past I've fished stripers Jan-March at night.
Andrew
Thanks for the info. Justin Hall is taking me out in the morning and he has been catching fish on the same type baits plus swim baits. I am going to go with him at sunup in the morning out of Burnside. Thanks Justin in advance and see you in the morning. Looking forward to it already. Elnut
Elnut, I used to catch a good number of stripers at night in Jan and Feb. when I was younger, tougher, stupider, etc. The only thing I could get a bite on at night when the water was this cold was a dollfly/trailer fished very slow just off the bottom of points. More power to ya.
Eating those brownfish is making you loco. An all nighter this time of the year takes nads. Big uns.
Good luck to you two who are much tougher than myself.
Jake
I don't think even if I were a lot younger...Teen years maybe I might have tried to fish at night in the winter...But the only winter type fishing I ever tried was ice fishing for blue gill thru a hole in the ice......:)
Just stay out of my spots!
Wow - it's good to see you are feeling that much better that you are considering winter night fishing.
It's going to be a real drag for you when they let you go back to work!
(but great that you've made that progress)
Elnut your the man now if we can just get you baptized at the holler in Jan/Feb.
It is my opinion that you have lost your friggin mind. Winter fishing is dangerous enough in the day time.
Man! What type of pain meds are you on?
DA