Night fishing Spruce advice needed

[Jigman13]

Hahahaha! Ken, you're too friggin funny. I'm gonna try the ol' Kroc next time I'm out!

[Wilson]

Originally Posted by kcritch

Lots of good info being shared...NJF as its finest. Nicely Done boys!

If I knew anything about the topic I'd add it here...but I don't...Sorry. I've only ever caught 3 hybrids at on Spruce at night. All on one trip long ago and I caught them on a 3/4 oz Krocodile spoon mostly by accident because I had no idea what I was doing and was just randomly casting as far as I could in the middle of nowhere in the dark and just reeling it back. I've never been able to repeat that so I wouldn't go spending much time trying it.....

So that's why I can't catch'em...I have been using a 1 oz. Kroc.... go figure

[Andrushkin33]

Hmm fishing Spruce at Night.

Let me see what I can contribute on the subject.

Helps to have multiple lines out with different bait. I am one of the few people that after I choose a spot I pretty much stick to it. If there is not bite in hour or two I still stick to the spot and 99% of the time patience pays off.

Best time to go would be after 9pm currently.

Magic hour lately been around 11pm.

There are some drop offs that you can reach from the shore if bottom fishing. You can locate them pretty easy by looking at maps and getting the feel for surrounding area.

As been mentioned since the rain last week, water level did go up. If you have waders, use them you will get access to more spots in different areas.

Medium and large live bait worked like magic for me for bass and pike.
Small bait worked fine on crappie.
Nightcrawlers worked on trout and catfish but I only got one trout so would not use that to target them.
Chicken livers worked like magic on both catfish, hybrids and white perch.

Best of luck to you.

Andre

[zmerchant7]

If fishing for Hybrids, chicken liver fished on the bottom or live Herring fished either under slip bobbers or on the bottom will be your best choice from shore. As mentioned before, with shore fishing you got to put your time in and patience definitely pays off. I've been fishing Spruce almost every night for the past 4 weeks now, and the Hybrid action has been nothing short of amazing between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. Put your time in and you're bound to get into some nice ones.

[Chrisper4694]

I will finally soon have some time to stay out into the wee hours of the night when they start biting.