I took a new partner out for a night of experimentation on Sprague. We got there in time to do a little bass fishing and set a crawfish trap on one of my old super spots.

About 8:30 PM I got a 15.75" LMB. I missed one earlier and my young partner missed one a little later, but only the one to the boat.

The real reason was that we wanted to try for some night crappie and bluegill, under a floating light. Unfortunately my floating light broke a connection and did not work, so I had a back up I could focus on the water. On other lakes, after 15 minutes the water bugs are in and after 20 minutes the bait fish are there. After 30 minutes, the crappie and bluegills, and bass and trout, are on the bugs and baitfish.

This time, after 30 minutes, the water bugs were thick as pea soup, but no bait fish and nothing eating the bugs. The depth sounder showed fish before the light had concentrated the bugs, but nothing later. Worse yet, the light died after 45 minutes, leaving my 2nd back up as the only way to get off the water, a super black night.

I got off the water with my GPS (drive by instrument), used my 2nd back up to load at the launch, and left. Of course I did stop to get the crawfish trap, now in the water for about 4 hours. I got nothing in my trap, no crayfish at all.

Perhaps it was all for the better; a major lightning storm moved in and by the time we got to Spokane it was not a night I would have wanted to stay on the water in. OUCH!

I will be back, by myself this time, with extra floating and submerging lights, but my first trip was not promising for the crappie and bluegills.

The following link takes you to my super short video of the water bugs after 30 minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nYdw8NKngY&feature=em-upload_owner

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