Thread: Fishing Lights

Originally Posted by iivydriff

Dont waste your money on the Green Lights. Ive used all kinds of lights at night. A few years back I thought I just had to have one of the green lights. Well they attract fish, but no better than white lights as far as I can tell. But I do know one thing for sure I cant catch fish as well under green lights. I dont use live bait when I fish under lights. And when I tried the green light I just was not catching fish like normal. I just thought it was a bad night. Then one night turned into several bad nights. Then it got broke and I was using my old white lights and the fishing was good again. But also if Im even around other boats with green lights I dont catch fish well. But the thing is they are not catching fish either.
Ive caught more white bass out of Beaver Lake than anyone can imagine at night. Ive been doing it for over 20 years, and Im 100% positive that Green fishing lights hurt my results when I use them or are around them.
Just 3 nights ago I was fishing for whites at night. We pulled up and tied about 30 feet from a boat that had green lights. We put our lights in and had good baitfish pretty quick. I kept telling my buddy that I do not have good luck when green lights are around. Well after about an hour that boat left. In less than five minutes I started catching fish. I caught 18 big whites in less than 30 minutes. Well a boat was idling by and seen me catching fish so they pulled right in beside us and threw in some green lights. They caught one fish right when they first pulled up, and then nothing. My fishing went to crap and they caught just the one. Then another boat pulled up on the other side of us and threw in the green lights and they were using shad. They caught one fish in about 3 hours.
When all the green lights were gone I caught more Whites than all the other people combined for the night who fished around me. This is not the first night Ive noticed this. Ive been convinced of this for about 5 years now. Im going to start fishing on bluffs instead of tying under the bridge. There are so many people fishing under there I cant get away from them green lights.
Im not saying they dont attract fish I think they do, but that green light affects the way they bite for some reason.
So just get you a white light they are cheap you dont need one of them high dollar ones. Stay away from the green lights and you will catch more fish.

last July i dropped green lights off the rt side of the bluff on pt 5 and went thru a pound of minnows in 2 hours

i got 2 21" night stalkers from BPS and a batree from wally world 4 under 90 bucks. when tested i hooked both 21inchers up to a fully charged battery and they ran for 36 hrs before i quit the test and took them off the battery.
conclusion, i think its what u put ure faith in, white 4 u and green for me



these were caught by my customers in a lil over 2 hrs on the first night trip of the season near a dock in ventress