lighted pier fishing at night

[MuskieBait]

I used to fish from 8pm to 3am on a frozen pier for brown trout and steelhead during the fall run. Not really a lighter pier, and the fish aren't exactly in the area feeding either.

At least for these spawnig trout, the fishing is best an hour or two after dark and an hour or two before light. During the dead of the night, the action slows down a bit...but you can still catch a few decent fish throughout the night.

It was sick back then...I would get off school and my buddy would get off work, we drive an hour to fish and we fished all night, then get back to Waterloo at 5am, maybe get 3 hours of sleep before I went to lectures and he went to work. We used to do that 2-3 during the week and some more fishing during the weekend. That was the life...

I know in the US lighted piers are good for crappie fishing.

And I know lighted piers are really good for saltwater pier fishing.

As much as walleye like to cruise the shallow to feed in the dark, I find that they don't like too much light.