re: Night Fishing Memories

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I've heard that the full spectrum light from an old school coleman attracts the food chain better than LED's, but obviously LED's work too and are very popular and apparently catch fish.

Lake Allatoona, a COE lake as you mentioned, had a boat ramp right by I-75 bridge you could paddle to in a JB without even cranking your engine. But you'd still need your battery powered clamp-on nav lights because the wardens were out every night going from bridge to bridge checking everyone, you certainly needed to have your shite in order, and not slur your speech. This was 80s-90s.

People would get real protective of "their" spots too, some pilings had better reputations than others. Heard many a argument over the water with drunk rednecks mad about proximity, when all anyone was doing was dropping a minnow over the rail of their boat. The way I figure, more lights together in a concentrated space will bring more of the biomass to it and become the hot spot for the night, benefitting everyone.

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I have spent many a night under that very bridge and have experienced the exact same thing. And everyone caught fish. Never understood it but no doubt alcohol was involved more often that not. Fishing the bridges was crowded but had to be done because those pilings and the rip rap attract the crap out of bait and fish....especially if theyre are pullin water. I would usually opt for one of the fixed channel markers though....not the floating ones but the ones on poles on main lake points. They did not attract as many fish but you did not have the crowds.


One of my favorite such places was on Yellow Jacket Creek at West Point. Just down stream from Sunny Point Access....on the opposite side of the creek from the transom and lower unit claimin road bed LOL. There used to be a channel marker on the other side of that road bed that was one of the best night fishing spots in the SE. I have caught so many crappie off that pole it is almost criminal and, in all honesty, probably was at times. Back in the day you could fish this spot from the road bed and wear them out....they blocked the road but I bet people still do it. The cove just around the point on the same side had a massive brush pile every year and it was chock bock full of crappie also. Just adjacent to it there was a flat about 4 feet deep in a channel bend about 25 foot deep...BIG catfish roamed that flat at night....I have caught a pile of 15 and 20 pound channel cats off that flat....big for west point back then. Good memories.