Trolling for Striper at NIGHT

With the summer heat on us, thinking about trolling for Striper at NIGHT. Anyone on the board have experience at this? In the past, I have always went out EARLY in the AM and by 10:30, called it quits...

Good Fishing to All,

Boone:D

Sure.. They feed at all different times and more frequently when their metabolism is high. Night time can be a great time. People do things like put glow sticks on their planer boards so they can see em. Article trolling can work well too. caught many down rigging at night. Went nights with a big zippo too.. LOL

The problem is idiots driving compensation boats while buzzed. I've had several planer boards taken out at night due to idiots coming WAY too close and running over my boards.

[QUOTE=Boone;374519]With the summer heat on us, thinking about trolling for Striper at NIGHT. Anyone on the board have experience at this? In the past, I have always went out EARLY in the AM and by 10:30, called it quits...

Good Fishing to All,

Boone:D[/QUOTE]

Boone,
You are a man of my own heart. I like the night bite because I'm a night owl and prefer to be out all night vs out early am.

I run boards, and do the little chemlights to see them on each board. You can save some by putting chem lights on the far boards, and none on the close boards. I use the electronics to look for a pattern. Sometimes, that means mid lake over a deep channel with fish at 60-90 foot and then downpoles is the right answer. Sometimes mid lake shows feeders over a channel that is 100 ft deep, but fish are up at the 20-30 foot marks, so boards get either no weight, and baits are run 30 foot behind the boards, or light weight and run 40 foot back. I alter speeds to bring weighted lines up and down seraching strike zone areas. Some nights, its no weigh at all on any board and troll close to shore in 20-30 foot of water.

And do not forget the night time bottom fishing bite. If you mark close to shore in a spot where they seem to stack up, beach, take a nap for an hour, then put lines out on the bottom after the area has completely settled down.

Best night bite places for me on Cland have been.
1. At mouth of Wolfe
2. Walls on right side entering Wolfe, following clean up to new Allegator/Cool springs dock.
3. Mouth of Wolfe, left side, right at small point where you can see Pleasure Ridge dock.
4. Lilly, inside as entering on the left side, at first turn in creek, cross to right side and work walls there.
5. Mouth of Beaver/Otter, out fron the kidney beaned island at the mouth of Beaver, I usually find staying in 70-90 foot of water with downpoles to 10 foot of the bottom works for me.
6. Bottom fishing the flats across from new marina/dock in Wolfe, left hand side as you face dock, and acroos lake from mouth of Wolfe facing Wolfe, and or around the point there till facing Jamestown.
7. Humpy hole, just thru Low Gap on the right. Down pole the channel in this slew, or bottom fish from the right bank entering the slew.

Some of these spots work sometimes, crap shoot as to which and when. Electronics will tell you which is most likely to be good on a given night.

PS I prefer breakfast at the end of a fishing trip, to lunch.

Bucktails off the downriggers is how used to do it.

Andrew

[QUOTE=HURRICANEBOB;374559]Boone,
You are a man of my own heart. I like the night bite because I'm a night owl and prefer to be out all night vs out early am.

I run boards, and do the little chemlights to see them on each board. You can save some by putting chem lights on the far boards, and none on the close boards. I use the electronics to look for a pattern. Sometimes, that means mid lake over a deep channel with fish at 60-90 foot and then downpoles is the right answer. Sometimes mid lake shows feeders over a channel that is 100 ft deep, but fish are up at the 20-30 foot marks, so boards get either no weight, and baits are run 30 foot behind the boards, or light weight and run 40 foot back. I alter speeds to bring weighted lines up and down seraching strike zone areas. Some nights, its no weigh at all on any board and troll close to shore in 20-30 foot of water.

And do not forget the night time bottom fishing bite. If you mark close to shore in a spot where they seem to stack up, beach, take a nap for an hour, then put lines out on the bottom after the area has completely settled down.

Best night bite places for me on Cland have been.
1. At mouth of Wolfe
2. Walls on right side entering Wolfe, following clean up to new Allegator/Cool springs dock.
3. Mouth of Wolfe, left side, right at small point where you can see Pleasure Ridge dock.
4. Lilly, inside as entering on the left side, at first turn in creek, cross to right side and work walls there.
5. Mouth of Beaver/Otter, out fron the kidney beaned island at the mouth of Beaver, I usually find staying in 70-90 foot of water with downpoles to 10 foot of the bottom works for me.
6. Bottom fishing the flats across from new marina/dock in Wolfe, left hand side as you face dock, and acroos lake from mouth of Wolfe facing Wolfe, and or around the point there till facing Jamestown.
7. Humpy hole, just thru Low Gap on the right. Down pole the channel in this slew, or bottom fish from the right bank entering the slew.

Some of these spots work sometimes, crap shoot as to which and when. Electronics will tell you which is most likely to be good on a given night.

PS I prefer breakfast at the end of a fishing trip, to lunch.[/QUOTE]


Thanks Bob...a lot of GOOD INFO there. Sounds like you put in a Jamestown Marina.;)

[QUOTE=Boone;374572]Thanks Bob...a lot of GOOD INFO there. Sounds like you put in a Jamestown Marina.;)[/QUOTE]

Jamestown mostly cause from Etown its just the fastest way to the water, it it takes me by Bass Pro in Jamestwon for Bait, Gas, Tackle, coffee etc.

Sometimes from Allegator 2, but never on a weekend, like it there mid week cause I can usually park the rig after launching with in mere feet of the ramp.

Just fished for them two nights ago and they were bitting at night. Across from Beaver on Canyon walls.
All on plainer boards none on down rods.
Good luck!

[QUOTE=JUSTINHALL;374613]Just fished for them two nights ago and they were bitting at night. Across from Beaver on Canyon walls.
All on plainer boards none on down rods.
Good luck![/QUOTE]
Thanks Justin,
When you say across from Beaver, are you talking about the North Shore of the main lake (river channel) or the mouth of Beaver. These fish do move around alot...was catching them behind the first island on your right going into Beaver/Oatter Creek. But that was then, not know.
:)Thanks and good fishing.