How's the night fishing in the BWCA

[ROCK 1]

I have made several trips to the BWCA and have had pretty good luck fishing walleyes around sun down. I was thinking about trying some night fishing this year ? has anybody had any luck ?

[MT Net]

On our trips in early June, our bestluck has been evenings until about an hour after sunset.

For what it's worth, once, we sat by the camp fire imbiding in some fine boubon, B.S.'ing. When we got this idea to throw some lighted slip bobbers out at 11:30 pm. We caught a few shortly after midnight, and quit before 1AM. Not really worthwhile that trip, and never really sought after the night bite.

I think the best time is evenings until 10PM up in the shallows off a point.

[GrogPich]

Doood.

Actually, before the great opener trips of the last 7 or so years, I had been up on Big Moose Lake and tried night trolling with a plain jig head (white), with a leech, and actually a lighted bobber to kindof help me number one keep it off the bottom and number two to help me know where the heck my line was. I caught maybe 3 or 4 nice walleyes that way, definitely something I'd recommend on a nice, quite, calm evening with a gallon of Grog.

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[Renneberg]

I've talked to people that have fished at night just outside of the bwca. They have had great luck fishing for walleyes at night.

If it works on some of the border lakes I don't see why it wouldn't work inside the bwca.

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"Study to be quiet"

[Surface Tension]

If your not on the water just after sunset your missing out on some of the hottest fishing. Find a reef or rocky point next to deep water and let the jigs fly.

[Guest]

Some lakes yes, and other lakes no. In my experience the walleyes actually shut down during the night-time hours on some of your darker water lakes, except at specific events, such as the lake shiner spawn, mayfly/stonefly hatches.
On several trips on clear water lakes, we'd spend much of the day snoozing, and then hit the water just before dark. It all depends on the water and the feeding patterns. I've seen a marked increase in the number of boats out at night over the last several years, and while sitting out after sauna replenishing lost fluids you can often hear exactly what is happening on the boats, as the occupants talk over the sound of their trolling outboard. For the most part, I've not been convinced that I need to be joining them in their pursuits.

[MT Net]

Wow, nice walleye S.T.! How deep are you fishing those reefs/ points after sunset? We've concentrated on the first break from shore at about 6' to 10' with slip bobbers. Lots of eater sized fish, but nothing like that.

[Surface Tension]

MT Net, May and early June, my favorite time to evening fish eyes. I anchor so I can cast a jig anywhere from 3-20' of water.
Being able to fish that wide variety of depths without moving is key in staying on the fish movement.

[lindyman]

Once the water clarity drops under about 13 ft or so I usually find it to be slow at night.

[Renneberg]

Hey MT Net, the guy that I talked to about fishing walleyes at night told me the they catch a ton of eaters shortly after sunset. The bigger eye move up later around 10-11pm.

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[MT Net]

Hey Renneberg, looks like I should stay out a bit longer for the bigger fish to come in.