Night fishing for Crappie over lights is my jam. If you find a good spot you can fill a cooler in a couple of hours. Your lights need to be in the water a while to get a good bait fish build up. I would cast into the dark and reel toward the light. From there you can get an idea for where the larger fish are holding. They tend to hang out in the shadows and dart in for the smaller fish in the light. I also will fish just off of where there is already some light, or deep structure I know they hang out in. If you get your light in early enough you can out compete the dock lights. From the bank works too, but not as well IMO. We catch catfish and bass using this method too, but nothing really to write home about.
We do a lot of Crappie fishing at night. But we keep the lights just above the water, and we have our best luck up in cuts like little canals that run off the lakes. I'm thinking they may be going up into the canals to feed at night. And yes, find a cut/canal that's around 6 to 8 feet deep, and fish from the bank and hang a light on a pole just above the water as far out as you can get it. We take a 10 foot piece of PVC and hang a light on the end of it, and we take a piece of metal pipe the PVC will fit in, and we drive the metal pipe at an angle into the bank and stick the PVC in it so that the light is about a foot off the water. We use the same 10ft PVC to hang the light 10ft off the side of the boat. It works great for catching MONDO Crappie at night!
There's folks by me who do this with these HARDCORE pontoon setups. They chum and lights out of the water like you're saying and have 8 people up on the bow of the boat and it looks like they're basically just snagging monsters til they limit out and head in. It's crazy. Same thing with Stripers and lights. They just swarm in massive feeding frenzy circles.
@@scottleggejr I've seen some guys with a set-up like that before, and it was kinda cool. They weren't using rod and reels, they were using like 12ft carbon fiber, telescopic fishing poles, and just kept flipping Crappie after Crappie onto the boat.
I do a lot of pier fishing on lights. The longer you have a light in a single location the better the fishing will become over time. A dusk to dawn is a great option.
Got one of those lights at academy about a month ago to go catfishing. Wound up with a 2 lb crappie. It definitely attracted bait fish and gills to the surface.
Man, I'm either going to have to move to Texas, or get a place to stay there. I'm super envious about all the things you guys get to do that are against the law here in MN. No lights...no dropping structure (christmas trees/pvc "trees")...no jug lines...no unattended lines of any kind...no using panfish for for bait...cut or whole. I love MN with all my heart...but we have some serious regulations here. God Bless and keep posting the awesome content...and lets all help LFG crush 1,000, 000. Tell everyone u know this channel is where it's at!
Been using lights for crappie fishing for a while. It’ll draw in the plankton and shad. I usually use them around timber in about 35-45 feet of water. Use a small cast net or umbrella net to catch those shad. Hook a few on a aberdeen hook or tip a jig and you’ll catch them quicker than store bought minnows. I’ve had luck just using sassy shad with crappie niblets too. Night fishing is the way to do it during the Texas summers.
Live Q&A (Maybe while out fishing with LFD and/or OSG) plus giveaways during the live event would be a good start for the 1 millionth subscriber celebration.
A lot of those docks have Christmas trees hanging from them, and we’re in from they get stacked in them. You can see the strings hanging from the docks
Was out fishing in Northern MN this last weekend and caught a few bigger black crappies. Was just suggested your video and love it! Was the first time I'd seen the white crappies and never knew about the light attraction! Way cool. Subscribed! Hope you get a million!
Lake Fork Guy, keep the great videos coming! I've actually got footage of an underwater green LED light that i built and need to produce into a video so i can upload to my fishing channel. Keep doin what you do!
We had the fish vector light quite a few years ago. Used to drop it down in the pass between lake pontchartrain and lake borgne for speckled trout and whatever else would grab the bait. Good video to!
Justin you should try fishing for some crappies around some dead trees in the water with the glow light you tried!! I think that would be awesome to see if that would work good or not?? Justin I have to say it again but I absolutely love watching your videos!!!
I've always fished the edge of the light. The bait comes to the light and the predators sit at the edge in the shadows waiting for an easy meal. Works around docks at night in Florida saltwater. 🤷🏻♂️
Hey lakeforkguy saw you today on 114 I was in the white F-150 work truck that rolled down my window and hollered at you thanks thanks for rolling down your window and giving me a shout out real quick when I pulled up behind you I didn't know it was you and I was looking at that bass boat you're in right now and thinking to myself this dude's really serious about his fishing and then realized it was you it made my day at work
You should do a give-away of you're favorite rod-reel combo's for your million subs! And send one my way of course! Thanks for your videos! Keep em' comin!
Come on up to Missouri and we will go crappie fishing. I spider rig for them and have pretty good luck. Have not tried it at night with a light yet however. Might have to try it!!!
LFG for your million subs day! You should do a full blow singles bass tournament against the other googans. on a public lake. It could become a tradition and a big thing for your fans and the other googans fans to look forward to watching every year. And it can be called LFG’s texas mondo meltdown! 😎😎😎😎👌👌👌👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
We used to use those lights with the Styrofoam surrounds that float and point the light straight down. Always seemed to me that you have to get under the little fish... cast some line out and let it drift down through different zones. I think the big fish are opportunistic and feed on the stuff the little ones injure or bust up.
Rackley going after those crispies!! I think you’ve said already but I can’t remember, are you planning another solo CO elk hunt... if so can you give me some insight to your preparation and gear. And of course you don’t want to give away your spots while your there but maybe give me some insight into how you choose certain areas? I’m planning to tackle this adventure soon...
Hey Justin, can tell you guys, the Googan baits are popping off in South Africa at the mo, had some decent fish on the crakin craw and bandito bug. Wanna try the Thicc jig and lunker logs.
Reminds me of summer nights at Lake Mathis on the main floating pier in the state park. My dad, little brother and my self and a huge bucket of minnows. Fishing the S. Texas summer nights under the lights because it was too hot to fish during the day. Simpler times.....
For the millionth video, you should invite a couple of subscribers to fish with you on a lake near you! PB’s will be broken for sure!! Great video and thanks for your awesomeness!!
I am lucky enough to live close to a lake that it is legal to have underwater lights on docks. There are some big 400watt metal halogen bulbs that people use and the fishing on them is insane. Stripers/ hybrids/crappie/spots/largies all school up on them different times of the year just depending on bait.
im the last guy to tell you how to fish, but i think the biguns were on the bottom . just drop it to the bottom and jig it up and down. one night we ran out of minnows and started fishing with willow flies . hard to get on a hook, caught so many i had to hide behind a tree to bait my hook
Chartreuse or highlighter yellow trout magnets get me Huge Crappie from the docks. Highly recommend them. They are my everything lure, I've caught more species of fish on them than ANY other lure I've used. Highly recommend them for huge night time crappie.
Night fishing for crappie on Sam Rayburn back in the 60s we would hang a coleman lantern from a tree and that would bring in crappie and you could fill your coolers .
For the million celebration you should invite someone to fish with you. Or better yet you can travel with the silver bullet to a subscriber place and fish a local lake with them!!!!! That would be juicy!!!!
our light was a styrofoam light that we just hooked to a boat battery . didnt even know they made that fancy thing lfg was using . one thing about him . he has to have the best of everything .which is great if you can do it
for the 1,000,000 subscriber day, you should give away a smaller crispy collecter away with it stocked with some of your fave rod/reels for crispy collecting and the baits to go with it?!?!?!?
Bro, I'd love to see you do the light technique over some deeper mid-lake structure. That could be killer.... maybe get into some bigger crapps or even a night time white bass feeding frenzy??? Oh man that could be freakin awesome...
Really enjoyed this video I love the bass fishing but it was great to watch something a little different and new. Would definitely like to watch you do another night time light fishing video again 10/10
We use light here in Da U.P. all the time for rainbow trout. Usually, we float the light on surface. All the plankton comes up along with little fingerling bass and gills. This draws in the trout “sharks” from about 45 foot down. They come flying in from the dark, make a run at something, then head back for another attack. It’s insane.
i never used to use any lights at night , cause i was told lights would scare fish away. but when ide strap a super bright headlamp on my head, it brings in the fish! headlamp on with waders in bout 4 ft of water, near some lily pads at night. ide get a catch almost every cast. no lights, no bites at all. they would literally swarm around me when the headlamp is on. turn it off, they would leave.
LFG next time you go out at night try minnows. I'm down in Granbury and noticed between 2 weekends crappie fishing using jigs i was catching more although smaller as opposed to using minnow the next weekend i caught less but bigger.
Night fishing for Crappie over lights is my jam. If you find a good spot you can fill a cooler in a couple of hours. Your lights need to be in the water a while to get a good bait fish build up. I would cast into the dark and reel toward the light. From there you can get an idea for where the larger fish are holding. They tend to hang out in the shadows and dart in for the smaller fish in the light. I also will fish just off of where there is already some light, or deep structure I know they hang out in. If you get your light in early enough you can out compete the dock lights.
From the bank works too, but not as well IMO. We catch catfish and bass using this method too, but nothing really to write home about.
7:47 I love how it’s all googan baits, but then there’s just those 2 zoom baits that stick out like a sore thumb.
We do a lot of Crappie fishing at night. But we keep the lights just above the water, and we have our best luck up in cuts like little canals that run off the lakes. I'm thinking they may be going up into the canals to feed at night. And yes, find a cut/canal that's around 6 to 8 feet deep, and fish from the bank and hang a light on a pole just above the water as far out as you can get it. We take a 10 foot piece of PVC and hang a light on the end of it, and we take a piece of metal pipe the PVC will fit in, and we drive the metal pipe at an angle into the bank and stick the PVC in it so that the light is about a foot off the water. We use the same 10ft PVC to hang the light 10ft off the side of the boat. It works great for catching MONDO Crappie at night!
There's folks by me who do this with these HARDCORE pontoon setups. They chum and lights out of the water like you're saying and have 8 people up on the bow of the boat and it looks like they're basically just snagging monsters til they limit out and head in. It's crazy. Same thing with Stripers and lights. They just swarm in massive feeding frenzy circles.
@@scottleggejr I've seen some guys with a set-up like that before, and it was kinda cool. They weren't using rod and reels, they were using like 12ft carbon fiber, telescopic fishing poles, and just kept flipping Crappie after Crappie onto the boat.
@@calvinh.8882 Yea tenkara rods but heavier than normal.
Dude you got a video of a set up? Sounds awesome
@@fish-on1679 No, we never video. But it's easy, just hang a light right at the top of the water.
I use lights like that when I go catfishing and carp fishing. Works awesome!
*this is a so amazing underwater light. im always using it for my fishing blogs*
I do a lot of pier fishing on lights. The longer you have a light in a single location the better the fishing will become over time. A dusk to dawn is a great option.
Got one of those lights at academy about a month ago to go catfishing. Wound up with a 2 lb crappie. It definitely attracted bait fish and gills to the surface.
Man, I'm either going to have to move to Texas, or get a place to stay there. I'm super envious about all the things you guys get to do that are against the law here in MN. No lights...no dropping structure (christmas trees/pvc "trees")...no jug lines...no unattended lines of any kind...no using panfish for for bait...cut or whole. I love MN with all my heart...but we have some serious regulations here.
God Bless and keep posting the awesome content...and lets all help LFG crush 1,000, 000. Tell everyone u know this channel is where it's at!
The crappie were up top but there was something huge on the bottom moving around!
Been using lights for crappie fishing for a while. It’ll draw in the plankton and shad. I usually use them around timber in about 35-45 feet of water. Use a small cast net or umbrella net to catch those shad. Hook a few on a aberdeen hook or tip a jig and you’ll catch them quicker than store bought minnows. I’ve had luck just using sassy shad with crappie niblets too. Night fishing is the way to do it during the Texas summers.
I finally got my lady hooked up on you guys. We look up to y’all, wish you and the family all the best.
I got hooked on the light method too. Yes sir it works. I found best in about 4 feet of water. Good luck
4ft? That shallow? I’m definitely wanting to try it.
L.F.G. Your channel is easily the Premier fishing channel on the ole tubes! 1 million by winter for sure. Big prayers and love to the Rackleys!
Actually got 4 of those lights this summer, have used them 4 or 5 times and they work great!
Justin hitting the ceiling again and again had me laughing out loud 😂😂😂
I wanted to say that I caught my PR Smallmouth Bass yesterday it was 5 1\2 pounds. I caught it on a GS lunker log
Live Q&A (Maybe while out fishing with LFD and/or OSG) plus giveaways during the live event would be a good start for the 1 millionth subscriber celebration.
You should really try using plastic crickets, nymphs and crappie minnows. That's what I use when I'm fishing with a light or even a lantern.
I've been using these type of lights for 2 years and they absolutely work from the bank
Is LFG the soul Googan to still actually fish?
And Jon b.
Not the SOLE Googan, but definitely the SOUL Googan in my book.
@@naturalverities thanks I won't fix it, honoring your sharp eye for my failure.
Jon b and APbass
@@billwhite7099 😉
Whoa! Those birds make some beautiful eggs. And if they stop producing, I see some premium wet flies!
Outstanding light, my best buy yet. Had bait fish all over the place. I love it
I think for a million subscribers you need to take one of them on a fishing trip on Lake Fork!
Bump
A lot of those docks have Christmas trees hanging from them, and we’re in from they get stacked in them. You can see the strings hanging from the docks
Was out fishing in Northern MN this last weekend and caught a few bigger black crappies. Was just suggested your video and love it! Was the first time I'd seen the white crappies and never knew about the light attraction! Way cool.
Subscribed! Hope you get a million!
I’d love to see the catfish fishing with the lights! Love the channel man! Always classic videos and phenomenal content!
LFG is an OG hes been around since tgis stuff got popular by far most humble and knowledgeable guy
I’m getting those new baits in Friday I’m ready to use them
need to bring that light up north to south dakota and do some ice fishing with the minndak boys! this winter!
Loving the videos! Golden crispi king 👑
Good vid, you inspired me to make a channel of my own and I am making vids weekly. Thx for being a inspirational UA-camr🤗🤗🤗
Lake Fork Guy, keep the great videos coming! I've actually got footage of an underwater green LED light that i built and need to produce into a video so i can upload to my fishing channel. Keep doin what you do!
LOVIN THE NIGHT FISHING on BOAT VIDJAS (in my outlaw voice )
We had the fish vector light quite a few years ago. Used to drop it down in the pass between lake pontchartrain and lake borgne for speckled trout and whatever else would grab the bait. Good video to!
On Lake lewisville, we used to use lights around the bridge abuttments for crappie in the summer and fall.
Awesome video! Thanx for this✊🏾
Your videos make me wanna go fishing, even if i just got home from fishing and turned on your video
We got one of those at our lake house on Lake Norman. It attracts white bass, spotted bass, stripers, etc
I have never used the stick lights. But I do have one that floats on top of the water.
Justin you should try fishing for some crappies around some dead trees in the water with the glow light you tried!! I think that would be awesome to see if that would work good or not?? Justin I have to say it again but I absolutely love watching your videos!!!
I've always fished the edge of the light. The bait comes to the light and the predators sit at the edge in the shadows waiting for an easy meal. Works around docks at night in Florida saltwater. 🤷🏻♂️
Hey lakeforkguy saw you today on 114 I was in the white F-150 work truck that rolled down my window and hollered at you thanks thanks for rolling down your window and giving me a shout out real quick when I pulled up behind you I didn't know it was you and I was looking at that bass boat you're in right now and thinking to myself this dude's really serious about his fishing and then realized it was you it made my day at work
You should do a give-away of you're favorite rod-reel combo's for your million subs! And send one my way of course! Thanks for your videos! Keep em' comin!
Come on up to Missouri and we will go crappie fishing. I spider rig for them and have pretty good luck. Have not tried it at night with a light yet however. Might have to try it!!!
LFG, The Googan King! My favorite channel!
For the 1000000 sub special you should do a lake fishing slam. Catch Bass, Crappie, Sunfish, and Catfish with (example) a 2 hour time cap
Anyone else notice he did the Outlaw "apologize"? 😂
Deeper the better. Big crappies don’t grow big swimming near the surface
LFG for your million subs day! You should do a full blow singles bass tournament against the other googans. on a public lake. It could become a tradition and a big thing for your fans and the other googans fans to look forward to watching every year. And it can be called LFG’s texas mondo meltdown! 😎😎😎😎👌👌👌👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
We used to use those lights with the Styrofoam surrounds that float and point the light straight down. Always seemed to me that you have to get under the little fish... cast some line out and let it drift down through different zones. I think the big fish are opportunistic and feed on the stuff the little ones injure or bust up.
Million subs Fresh water grand slam catch and cook. Bass, crappie, catfish, and blue gill.
Lights are an old school trick. Takes a while for the minnows to gather around. But when they do. fish on!
Rackley going after those crispies!!
I think you’ve said already but I can’t remember, are you planning another solo CO elk hunt... if so can you give me some insight to your preparation and gear. And of course you don’t want to give away your spots while your there but maybe give me some insight into how you choose certain areas?
I’m planning to tackle this adventure soon...
Hey Justin, can tell you guys, the Googan baits are popping off in South Africa at the mo, had some decent fish on the crakin craw and bandito bug. Wanna try the Thicc jig and lunker logs.
Use the lights without the live scope...bank fishing is a better test
1 million subscriber special - trip to Canada to catch and cook some golden crispy walleyes :)
You need a million! Your awesome, keep up the good work!
Reminds me of summer nights at Lake Mathis on the main floating pier in the state park. My dad, little brother and my self and a huge bucket of minnows. Fishing the S. Texas summer nights under the lights because it was too hot to fish during the day. Simpler times.....
For the millionth video, you should invite a couple of subscribers to fish with you on a lake near you! PB’s will be broken for sure!! Great video and thanks for your awesomeness!!
A Millionth subscriber celebration- maybe fish on a lake you’ve never fished at.
Is that bucket combo pack coming back? I never got one
definitely keep using the light in different ways cause I have some and want to know the best way to use them from the bank
Me and my dad used to use a regular car light headlight hooked it to the battery
Definitely a fishing trip for a lucky fan for the 1 million subscribers
Try over a brush pile that is 12’-15’ feet down. You were on them at Lake Fork.
Ate it like a stack of pancakes on a Sunday morning. That’s the way I like, keep up the good work
guys...lets push LFG for 1mil subs..all other already reach 1mil.
When they really start laying u can bring in eggs twice a day sometimes
I am lucky enough to live close to a lake that it is legal to have underwater lights on docks. There are some big 400watt metal halogen bulbs that people use and the fishing on them is insane. Stripers/ hybrids/crappie/spots/largies all school up on them different times of the year just depending on bait.
You are the best you tuber ever
Does those lights till attract fish when there is current?
You would love Duck eggs. We had good luck at Falcon Lake fishing brush piles and bridge pilings at night under lights.
1M subscriber video HAS to be a one-in-a-lifetime trip fishing + hunting combo dangle
I think a good idea for a millionth subscription video would be a bunch of tips for beginner anglers
im the last guy to tell you how to fish, but i think the biguns were on the bottom . just drop it to the bottom and jig it up and down. one night we ran out of minnows and started fishing with willow flies . hard to get on a hook, caught so many i had to hide behind a tree to bait my hook
Hahaha! I dig the pro-tip man.
✅☺️👊🏽☮️
Chartreuse or highlighter yellow trout magnets get me Huge Crappie from the docks. Highly recommend them. They are my everything lure, I've caught more species of fish on them than ANY other lure I've used. Highly recommend them for huge night time crappie.
Night fishing for crappie on Sam Rayburn back in the 60s we would hang a coleman lantern from a tree and that would bring in crappie and you could fill your coolers .
For the million celebration you should invite someone to fish with you. Or better yet you can travel with the silver bullet to a subscriber place and fish a local lake with them!!!!! That would be juicy!!!!
Beautiful work their LFG I would say maybe do a contest and who ever wins get a bag of fishing gear Amazing video 💓loved it
Like a stack of pancakes on a sunday mornin....I love Rackleys analogies lol
He has some awesome ones.
What kind of trolling motor do u have?
I feel like when you're catching tons of small ones, up size the lure a bit to weed those ones out and give the bigger ones a real meal.
I love doing this. Good way to get gar on rope lures also.
Hey man. Been watching you for some time now. Can you recommend some good lures for crappie
our light was a styrofoam light that we just hooked to a boat battery . didnt even know they made that fancy thing lfg was using . one thing about him . he has to have the best of everything .which is great if you can do it
I'd would really like to see you use those on the bank, seeing I don't have a boat....🙄
For the million subscribers do a little mini series, or over night camping catch and cook
for the 1,000,000 subscriber day, you should give away a smaller crispy collecter away with it stocked with some of your fave rod/reels for crispy collecting and the baits to go with it?!?!?!?
Bro, I'd love to see you do the light technique over some deeper mid-lake structure. That could be killer.... maybe get into some bigger crapps or even a night time white bass feeding frenzy??? Oh man that could be freakin awesome...
Really enjoyed this video I love the bass fishing but it was great to watch something a little different and new. Would definitely like to watch you do another night time light fishing video again 10/10
We use light here in Da U.P. all the time for rainbow trout. Usually, we float the light on surface. All the plankton comes up along with little fingerling bass and gills. This draws in the trout “sharks” from about 45 foot down. They come flying in from the dark, make a run at something, then head back for another attack. It’s insane.
I'd be out here throwing a frog with a flashlight taped to my head. Just something I'd do.
I'd offer you a cold beer and good luck.
i never used to use any lights at night , cause i was told lights would scare fish away. but when ide strap a super bright headlamp on my head, it brings in the fish! headlamp on with waders in bout 4 ft of water, near some lily pads at night. ide get a catch almost every cast. no lights, no bites at all. they would literally swarm around me when the headlamp is on. turn it off, they would leave.
thanks for the upload
Love this time of year.
I haven't done it in a bit ,but we used minnows and just jigged them didn't matter if they were alive. Split shot small hook.
Lfg stays fishing in his videos. I like his duck ebenezer. 😂
Would be cool to do a giveaway when you hit a mil. Maybe the Crispy? Maybe some rods/reels? maybe a trip on Lake Fork with the man himself?
LFG next time you go out at night try minnows. I'm down in Granbury and noticed between 2 weekends crappie fishing using jigs i was catching more although smaller as opposed to using minnow the next weekend i caught less but bigger.
Works awesome for snook and redfish