The comment about the red head lights is a good one. The bugs will not come to it. Its amazing. You can have the LED on fixing your line or whatever, be covered in bugs, then turn the red on and they go away. I use bobbers a lot, so glow paint sprayed on the top half works really well.

As already stated, know your lake. Have points that you can see, moonlight is the best time. Especially just starting out. A GPS is very handy...mark a trail during the day making large turns around bends and staying the deepest water. Remember that trail may not always be correct though, as lake levels fluctuate. Life jackets and kill switches and make sure someone know where you are as already stated. If you can turn your gauge lights down or off it helps..sometimes the glare can mess with you on very dark nights.

Night is my favorite time to fish...SOOO peaceful. Cool fall night on the water CAN'T be beat!