California Fishing Regulations, fishing for crappie with lights?

Mar 10, 2007 by OU812 | Posted in Fishing

I was told to fish for crappie from a well lit bank because they are attracted to the lights. I asked if it was ok to fish from a boat and use a light to attract the fish. My friend said the use of lights was legal.

Is it legal to use

Yes it is legal. Crappie lights are sold at just about all baits shops.

What I do here in Georgia is I have a generator and we hook up three tripods and burn six lamps and light up an entire dock and fish all nioght long. We drink Beers

cristanine | Mar 12, 2007

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GLEN ELDER LAKE, Kan. -- The cast went long and landed float, lure and more than a yard of line over the bent limb of a flooded bush.

Rather than a tangled problem, my error turned to pleasure as the float sank and a fish pulled hard enough to yank the line from the limb as it headed to open water.

While unhooking the fish -- a crappie as long and thick as a $30 rib-eye -- Bob Roberts was trying to end a cell phone call to land a similar fish that smacked a line hanging over the side of the boat.

At the same time, Jeff Ensz was landing a crappie he had hooked the old-fashioned way.

Such was the craziness of a recent crappie fishing trip at Glen Elder Lake.

With 94 crappies kept and most between 12-14 inches, it was probably the finest fishing day I've had in Kansas.

Many Kansas anglers have made memories this spring. High water from the past several years made for the ideal hatching and rearing conditions, so most of our lakes are teaming with large numbers of large fish.

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