best tipup, jigging, bait, and depth for nighttime eyes?

[acsacmboy]

best tipup, jigging, bait, and depth for nighttime eyes? looking to catch some this year and many to come.

[TroutFishingBear]

If the lake has perch, fish shallow flats at night. Use stuff you would use in the day, except in brighter colors.
For tipups, use Live minnows, weighted fairly heavily, are excellent. If you can use small perch, that will work the best. If not, use sucker minnows.
WEIGHT HEAVILY SO THE MINNOW WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MOVE A WHOLE LOT

[acsacmboy]

use perch for bait? i was told by an old timer once to put a special chemical on its back to make the skin turn pink. use for pike and walleyes. i will use all my gear to see what works best but i needed somewhere to start
b.t.w. i like to use tipups but jigging is good

[TroutFishingBear]

no offense, but I think that special chemical trick is probably balogna, but if it's true, I still wouldn't do it for fear of making fish sick and polluting the water.
I will have to reaserch in that.

[acsacmboy]

no it wasnt balogna. it was an old liquid chemical that started with a p i think. my dad thinks its mecurichrome(sp). idk.. its supposed to work. get some research on it.

[pkevinb]

could it be methiolate? or something like that?

My great grandmother used it on my cuts and boy did it sting.

[TroutFishingBear]

still can't find anything on it

[Ice Troll]

never heard of chemically treating bait fish but I am a big believer of glow hooks and glow beads, especially for night time eyes.

[indeeptreble]

just a thought is't mecurecrome made from mercury ,they banned that stuff up here in Canadato use on human cuts etc. so why would you want to put it in the lake