Are there any guides out there that offer night crappie learning trips that teach the techniques required to fish with green lights.

im sure some of the guides in your area will do a night trip for u..i know theres a woman at fork who did night trips last summer or so.. saw it in the lake fork news last spring.

. Find a place that looks good, tie or anchor up, drop the light over the side and put some minnows out. Generally what I do, is try to find some old timber at the front of a cove , that has access to shallower and deeper water. Or anywhere along the river channel that looks good, but has shallower water close by. I then will put out about 5 or 6 rods, tightlining minnows or jigs at different depths, and making a note of thier depths, like rod 1, 3 cranks off bottom, rod 2, 4, rod 3, 6, ect. Once I have all of the rods set out, I watch them all, while I have another rod that im working a jig right next to the light thats in the water. I will take a lil fishie, or a wooley beavertail, or even a live minnow, and let it go all the way to bottom, then VERY VERY slowly reel it up, pausing, shaking, waying, every so often. As im making the turns on the reel, I keep tract, that way if I get bit, I can get a idea of how deep they might be. I have also noticed that the deeper they are holding, the more likely it is that they will just grab the bait and swim up with it. So you need a very sensitive rod, and hi-visibility line, or you will miss alot of them. As far as the other rods you have out, if you get bit on one of them, adjust the others to that same depth.

ask Lucas at www.beltoncrappie.com

Trial and error always works? That's what they tell me anyways. Where the hell you been stumpy? Was up on the hill yesterday, 907 Tank, had to do the lawn there.

Duck Jerky offers trips for hybrids and sandies under the lights.