dark secrets?

dummy · 12-02-2000, 07:20 AM

any body got any hot tricks for fishing in the dark. i often have to show up on a hole 2 hrs before lite to secure my hole. i have been fishing with a bobber and glow stick dragging a slinky with a 2' leader a small glow corky a nickle size glob of eggs with no luck. at first lite i swicth to jigs and start hooking up. so the fish are present but i cant get them to bite in the dark. guys drifting glow corkies mostly just snag them accidently.

Grant Scheele · 12-02-2000, 07:34 AM

Have you tried a jig in the dark? Those fish can see in the dark better than you think. I bet you would catch fish with a jig if you tried. Maybe a glow jig?

dummy · 12-02-2000, 07:45 AM

yes i have black and glow jigs, and glow jigs with bait loops with sand shimp tails. still no luck. thanks my kiss

Steelheader69 · 12-02-2000, 07:54 AM

Hey dummy, what rivers are you fishing? In WA, it's against the law to fish any earlier then 1 hour before sunrise. Since the sun is coming up around 7am, 6am is as early as you can go. You said something about 2 hours early to reserve your spot. I usually will stand there and have gear ready and wait for hour before.

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dummy · 12-02-2000, 08:03 AM

the river i fish dosent say anything about night restrictions. and maybe i am eggzagerating about two hours seems like forever though. just sit and wait is not my stile i love fishing and my last cast usualy last about 45 minutes. thanks 69

Fish4Fun · 12-02-2000, 09:25 AM

Hey S-69,

In Washington the way I thought the rules were on night fishing was it was ok to fish at night unless the regs stated that there was a "night fishing closure". Steelheading with glow balls and lighted plugs is very popular on many rivers. You haven't had fun till you hook up at 2am in the morning and stumble down a river bank of slick rocks. If you look at the rules it will show some rivers that have a closure from a specific date to another date. Other wise night fishing is legal.

Fish 4 Fun

Steelheader69 · 12-02-2000, 03:01 PM

hey outlaw, you're right. it's just that rivers I fish have the night closure rules. I double checked the regs and it's all freshwater is open 24/7 unless stated in special rules. I'm gonna have to check me out some rivers to use my glowballs on. I've found so many over the years and have nowhere to use them.

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Trout,myster · 12-03-2000, 05:51 AM

Trick I use while jetty fishing at night. If your jigs are "glow in the dark" painted, take a camera flash with you. If you don't have one, they are relatively cheap at Freddy's, Bi-Mart, etc.. Hold the jig in your hand and hit it with the flash. It'll hold it's glow for 5 minutes or longer, enough for several casts. Don't watch it when you trigger the flash, however, or you won't see anything for quite awhile except all those little "sparklies" in front of your eyes.

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Fish4Fun · 12-03-2000, 06:11 AM

Trout,

I can remember back in the 70's when we started to use the camera flashes it looked like a disco ball from all the flashes at the Barrier Dam on the Cowlitz. My brother and I were just kids and flashing each other at night was almost as much fun as the fishing. Sure beat the heck out of using a flashlight to get the glow balls lite back up.

GRUMPY · 12-03-2000, 05:04 PM

Damn, so thats how they do it! That nice guy on blue creek told me to just set the glow balls out in the sun for two hours then put them inside a paper bag or two, just so it's light tight and the light can't escape. You have to be quick with the little buggers when you take one out of the bag or all the rest of them will light up prematuraly and go dark sooner thus ruining your two hours of fishing before the sun comes up.
Maybe that guy was having some fun at my expense?
Grumpy

smilesforu · 12-03-2000, 07:37 PM

good one grumpy

Fuzzybutt & Angel · 12-03-2000, 09:09 PM

LMAO@Grumpy!! good one!! hey i've got glow jigs too!!

dummy · 12-04-2000, 05:34 AM

grumpy i screwed up and was not quick enough. the fish didnot like my glow jigs. but i got a crome hen at first light. i wish winter fought as hard as summer runs. marty someguy even turned his headlights on.

THE REEL HEY_YALL · 12-04-2000, 06:36 AM

Ummmm....and you aren't getting any hooksets on the glow-n-dark corkies??? Nov. 1st of this year, when night fishing was legal on the Cowlitz, my brother and I hooked 11 and they weren't foul hooked. One was...forgot about that one. Depends on what your fishing for: Kings down there at the barrier I started using that Jumbo sized corkie (just one) and a 2/0 hook. Silvers and steelies, I've used the super small glow corkie and resting on top of it we will mix up between a bright pink, or glow corkie with pink speckles, or a metallic chrome corkie above the glow corkie. All pegged with a toothpick. Yarn is optional, but usually the color bright pink or bright green. If that doesn't work then I'm drawing a blank as to why are you aren't hooking any fish before daybreak. Take an all black jig, or red and black jig, peg with toothpick a supersmall corkie above the jig if your black and glow jigs don't work.