Ice Fishing
Ice fishing at night?
In my experience, bluegill, crappie, catfish bite regularly after dark. It is also my experience the underwater camera sucks after dark except when fish come in very close proximity.
Get a flasher, how anyone can ice fish w/o is beyond me. Too many times fish come in above my bait. You probably are already aware of all its valuable aspects.
Get a quality headlamp. It too has so many valuable aspects.
Use glow &/or loud baits.
Good luck
Gonna try my luck here instead of starting a new thread. Just as the original post, I am interested in ice fishing at night. I have tried several times without success using worms and crappie minnows on jigs, shiners on tip-up, various depth 6ft-40ft. Crappie/walleye/catfish, whatever works for me, I just want to catch something at night since I don't have much time to fish during the day. I do not have a flasher, but I do have an underwater camera (it is horrible at night, the infrared just light up all the particles in the water).
What is a good depth and structure to try at night? Like deep holes vs hump/bar vs weed edge vs weed bed, etc. I have done a lot of night walleye fishing in the fall, and they are pretty common along the shore here. Do they stay around the same spots as they do in the fall?
I do a bunch of night fishing for eyes. You get that flurry at dusk, but then about an hour after dark, you start getting flags again. You gotta have good tip-up lights, a good head lamp and a good flashlight for night fishing.
If you're running tip-ups, reflective posts to mark where they are is a good idea too. Night time produces some very nice fish.
I have fished walleyes and crappies at night. Walleyes, we found were a nuisance as you couldn't have too much light. Crappies were nice because light makes it better. Also caught largrmouth at night while fishing for crappies. Don't remember catching anything other than that. Some lakes panfish bite right up until it's black out and then most people leave or even leave before that. It's nice to keep fishing and see what you can catch after that.