I have always stopped trolling once it is too dark to see, but I know some continue and have good luck for the first hour or two of darkness. Is anyone willing to share tips for this type of fishing? Do you use only glow lures or do other colors work? Do you still target thermocline depths or do the fish move up?
Any advice would be appreciated.
In my experience, which I will grant may be very different from many others, the king salmon seems to a fish of low light, but not necessarily no light.
Success in that last hour has always been pretty consistent, but what has also been consistent for me is when the night turns fully dark, the fish almost completely shut off. I’ve kept at it a number of times over the years, to see if they turn on shortly after, but they so rarely do, for me, I just head in now when it turns full dark.
