Have made an effort to target fish at night under the moon. It has been more of a quality over quantity bite. Water temps have dropped from 74ish to 70ish with the recent cooler weather.
Last night, I found fish in 5-8 fow with shiny perch colored raps at 2 mph. In general, fish have seemed hard to coax with other presentations.
Anyone have any insights to fishing full moon periods?
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My favorite color crank at night is black.
Get out the sharpie because there aren’t many black cranks! 
FBR, you should write a book of all the tips and tricks you know. They’re usually interesting and it’s nice they have all been field tested! If you ever do, I’ll buy the first copy!
FBR, tell us about your favorite nighttime cranks. You casting? Or trolling??
Water clarity has alot to do with colors.
Unless it’s firetiger, that just works everywhere 
Old mille lacs threads here had guys making a solid black line on the sides of their cranks for night trolling.
Black beetle spins, black ugly bugs, black 1/2ox spinner baits on tonka 50yrs ago were lights out for eyes.
Appreciate the tips FBRM (& all). Gonna black out an F13 floater tomorrow and do some field testing on some Otter Tail flats. Will report results!
Back in the day when I pulled cranks on ottertail. #7 shad raps worked the best. Cooler didn’t matter as long as it had Crome in it.
I also did better in the 10 to 13’ depths then the 8’ depths that you find on the main shore line flats.
Black beetle spins, black ugly bugs, black 1/2ox spinner baits on tonka 50yrs ago were lights out for eyes.
50 years ago? As in 1970?
Your advice seems a little outdated. 
Threw the book at Otter Tail walleyes Saturday. No discernible pattern, no wind probably slowed things down. Water levels are low. In 2-4’ you could see sturgeon and walleye (headlamps near access). Healthy fishery, bad timing. Pulled enough up to use the knife at least.
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How are the bugs on OT at night this year?
Had no intention of fishing yesterday until the wind died at 8PM. Grabbed the boat and left Alex at 930PM and arrived at the Otter Tail access at 11PM. Fished until 3AM. Landed around a dozen fish, nothing too fast but size was great. 4 over 23” and the rest were cookie cutter 17-18”s. Dropped an upper 20s boatside. Kept 4 for the pan.
Water was cooler than expected still, and bite slowed when moon came up around 1230. Slower speed and pumping the rod still very important. Fished 4-6’ and shiner colors outfished anything perch colored.
Good luck to anyone braving the wind this weekend.
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