[652995]

I go sharking during the day often but have never been out at night. Supposed to do an overnighter this weekend just wanted to know what you guys change up at night. I have a hydroglow light i was planning on using and was gunna put glowsticks on the baits, does that help?? thanks

 

[MakoMatt]

Sharks seem to play with the floats more at night, esp. the white styrofoam ones, they kind of "glow" I think. You might want to go without any, fish just one, maybe two rods. One tight to the boat, the other deeper.

MakoMatt

 

[WAHOOO]

you know i never tryed it but i have caught them at nite in the dark i do just as well at nite as i do during the day

 

[stakones]

you can put small glow sticks in the balloons to help keep track. I wouldn't put out more than two rods but i guess it all depends on the conditions.

 

[canyonfvr]

When we were allowed to keep more that 1 shark we use to do a lot of over night shark trips did real good at night too usually fished 3 rods

 

[MakoMike]

Light stick in the ballon or taped to the floats help, other than that no difference from during the day.

 

[TARFU1014]

destiny44 wrote:
I go sharking during the day often but have never been out at night. Supposed to do an overnighter this weekend just wanted to know what you guys change up at night. I have a hydroglow light i was planning on using and was gunna put glowsticks on the baits, does that help?? thanks

At night, I usually add a 8" pork rind strip that has been soaked in menhaden oil on the top two baits. I don't know if it helps but seems to work...

 

[652995]

yea ive heard of putting the glow sticks on the balloons to keep track, but wat about putting 1 near the bait???

 

[alwayslucky]

I'll be doing an overnighter on Mon. night weather allowing...Focusing on shark & bft since my range is 50 miles....lights attract shark, just be careful were you put them as sharks will mess with them...pm me if your fishing off ack or mv area

 

[SomedayCame]

Over the years we have done some sharkin at night. Yes, they seem to like the glow sticks. To try and solve the problem of them going after the glow stick tied to the balloon on the rigged lines we put a glow stick on the baits and send them down, usually fishing three rods at this point. To possibly "Raise them to the surface" I will take about a 50ft piece of floating poly line and tie balloons to it every 5ft or so. Using the much smaller glow sticks I place them inside the balloons prior to blowing them up. It looks pretty cool, almost like a mini runway all lit up. If we do see or hear one come in on the line we then use a surface pitch bait as we pull the rope with the balloons towards the boat..this method has worked for us in the past..

Just trying to help!!!

Brad

 

[captainlarry84]

Night Bite

Things I do different at night:

1.Two (2) rods max. Like MakoMat stated one uptight, with a clothspin. The second deep into the slick also pined.

2.Light sticks on all baits, so we know when the fish is close.

3.Chum bag only, no laddling or any slippery messy deck chuming, just some light chunking off the bait board.

4.No floats, they always get hit.

5.Plenty of 110 ****pit lighting.

 

[652995]

thanks for all the input guys appreciate it...ended up hittin a small mako that we released just before nightfall, but after that the rest of th night was pretty quiet besides a few bluefish playing with the baits..nice night out