Night Ice Fishing Pineview

[stickstring89]

I was curious if any on has any experience fishing for perch at night. I would like to go tonight. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks.
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[crappie_rangler]

About impossible to catch perch at night. You could go up there with everybody else and try for some 6" -8" crappie at night though. Crappie are on the small side this year.
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[stickstring89]

Would i be better off to go somewhere for trout at night?
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[ScottyS]

We've been doing fairly well fishing for cutts at the Berry at night. May be worth a shot.
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[Coach_wizard]

What time have you been hitting strawberry at night? Also what have you been using? Thinking about going up to solider creek tonight. Thanks
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[ScottyS]

I haven't had a chance to make it out very early this year. 8:30 at the earliest, although I imagine earlier may be better. We stay until anywhere from 1 till 4. If you go late enough it makes sense to stay through the first couple hours of the morning. The fishing has tended to be best from 1-3 am. We have been using either pearl or green glow jigs, and the best has been a glow green body/pearl tentacle 2.5" skinny jig.

I would definitely take some cut bait to use as well (sucker) as it seems to drastically out perform the nightcrawlers.
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[Coach_wizard]

Ok thanks I will give that a shot and let you know how it goes. How deep of water have you been fishing? Are they in towards the banks or have they been out a little deeper?
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[SLAPPINTHEBASS]

I know this is off subject now that your talking about strawberry but I only fish pineview@ night on the ice and Yes most of the fish are all 6-8 inch crappie but every hour or so you get a nice sized 10-12 incher as well to make it interesting. and also my biggest perch at pineview was ay night as well.. just shy of 10.5. definitely didn't catch many perch probably only a handful but the size was bigger for perch ay night compared to the 5-7 inchers during the day. if you have a good finder you can find the perch and drop it right in their mouths.
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[ScottyS]

I don't know about a specific depth; I think it depends on what you are looking for. The bigger fish tend to be shallower, but less common, and the schools coming through tend to be in the normal Berry depths, although my best two trips have been fishing in 45 FOW. The fish tended to come through suspended between 20 and 25 feet. A finder is really the ticket to catching the fish though. If we don't mark any fish in 10 - 15 minutes we move. It also helps us catch the few fish that come through at depths outside where the majority of fish are marked.
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[Fishsticker]

[quote crappie_rangler]About impossible to catch perch at night. You could go up there with everybody else and try for some 6" -8" crappie at night though. Crappie are on the small side this year.[/quote]
Almost impossible[]
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[Moosedog]

HIGH JACKED by the Berry[crazy]

Back to Pineview What are you using to catch crappie at night? I was there on Friday night and they bit great until dark and then like a light switch quit biting! Fish like crazy on the finder. It was frustrating!
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