nighttime river ice fishing walleye

Maybe its just me. I usually ice fish walleye on the sippi or the croix and usually, well always the 45 minutes before light and the 45 before dark are always good. The question is do river walleye shut off at night or what?( Ice river walleye that is.)As soon as it gets dark all the guys around pack up and I’ve tried fishing after dark with zero luck so is the night bite only a lake thing? I run glow jigs, taze em up every couple minutes, use scent, sound (buckshots) do everything I can possibly think of to no effect. I’ve done well on lots of lakes after dark rivers not at all. Why is this? 

Since I don’t ice fish really, this may be out of the box, but what kind of depths are you fishing. I don’t even bother fishing during the day on the river, maybe spring and fall but even then its got to be overcast or windy. I would bet money they are active only your locations are off. Shallow shallow shallow, but again I don’t ice fish so ?????

I have had the same results with the same amount of effort. I don’t know if one should find a shallow flat and fish on top more with tip-ups or what. The fishing I do out on the croix is always on breaklines. I have tried jigging on the top after dark but maybe up in the middle of the flats would work better. I haven’t been out after eyes on the croix in a few years. Too many people home in on you during primetime. They think just cause a guy is off by himself he is on the motherload of fish. I wish that was true in my case! But not so much. I’ll stick to a quiet spot on a lake on a weed edge and fish after dark and catch more!

I like to focus about 3-8ft of water typically on an inside bend (out of the channel/current a bit more) I typically mark the same amount of fish but they just seem indifferent to whatever is there. usually at either dawn or dusk when you do mark a fish you can at least get them to rise towards your bait. After dark not so much. In fact they seem to ignore it completly most the time? Then again river fishing is a whole different animal from lake fishing. I do know that you don’t really want to move around in that shallow of water. Drill a couple holes, be quiet and wait typically catches you more fish than running and gunning. In 5 fow they hear you even if the ice is a foot thick.

I watched a video from uncut angling where they were fishing and catching some really nice northerns where the water underneath the ice wasn’t more than 18″. Just like on lakes where there is a nice steep drop right from shore 1-2′, would create a nice ambush point where the bait would have nowhere to go sounds good, put some rock in there that might have absorbed some of the suns rays during the day if no snow pack sounds better. I may not ice fish, but i read a lot of articles, and the internet is always right