WHAT COLOR LED'S FOR CRAPPIE AT NIGHT ???

[Rammer1961]

I love to crappie fish at night more so than day time. I use (2) green submergible LED lights currently, one near the front and one near the rear of the boat. I'm wanting to install some LED light strips just under the rub rail to shine on the water surface. My question is which color is more productive for Crappie... Green or White. Back in the 90's I used the white floating lamps and the Aqua Star submergible. Caught lots of Crappie with them just killed the battery in 6 or 7 hours. When LED's hit the market I started using the Green LED 2ft submergible sticks. Would love to get opinions of the members of tried and tested colors that work BEST before installing the LED strip lights. Found some I really like from Southern Lite LED. Thank you for your feedback.

[Pithon]

Did you do any good fishing at night like this? I'm planning on doing the same thing tomorrow night. Never have crappie fished at night but my idea was to drop the light, anchor the boat and wait with poles tipped with minnows in the water. The light I bought today has green LED.
On the box if says that green attracts plankton. Which In turn attracts bait fish then the big fish is what it says. Hopefully it works just like that.

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[Rammer1961]

Did you do any good fishing at night like this? I'm planning on doing the same thing tomorrow night. Never have crappie fished at night but my idea was to drop the light, anchor the boat and wait with poles tipped with minnows in the water. The light I bought today has green LED.
On the box if says that green attracts plankton. Which In turn attracts bait fish then the big fish is what it says. Hopefully it works just like that.

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Pithon.. Yes I have had good catches at night over the past 30 years. Especially in Spring and Summer. plus you don't have a lot of boat traffic at night. Been catching some good Crappie so far the last five weekends. Caught some cats and stripped bass too. I've got a new 24" LED fishing light coming tomorrow, it has white and green LED's (432 total) you can run the white or green LED's or run both white and green LED' at the same time.

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[hdhntr]

great thread and lots of valuable info. will they place this in electronics forum?

[Rammer1961]

great thread and lots of valuable info. will they place this in electronics forum?

Thank you hdhntr! I don't know if it would pertain to electronics. Would be NICE to have a sub-forum just for "NIGHT FISHING" if there isn't one. That would be awesome for guys that are really into fishing at night.

[RobAnderson]

I love to crappie fish at night more so than day time. I use (2) green submergible LED lights currently, one near the front and one near the rear of the boat. I'm wanting to install some LED light strips just under the rub rail to shine on the water surface. My question is which color is more productive for Crappie... Green or White. Back in the 90's I used the white floating lamps and the Aqua Star submergible. Caught lots of Crappie with them just killed the battery in 6 or 7 hours. When LED's hit the market I started using the Green LED 2ft submergible sticks. Would love to get opinions of the members of tried and tested colors that work BEST before installing the LED strip lights. Found some I really like from Southern Lite LED. Thank you for your feedback.

I am still old school and use halogen spotlights with my Honda generator. My buddy has been trying led's and only the white work somewhat. I can anchor next to him and catch 5 to his 1 so I have chosen to stick with old school

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[huntinslabs]

I do a lot of shrimping at night and a lot of flounder gigging in past. Green light will not give you night blindness when you look up from light and look at surroundings. Green under water seems to bring in more minnows than white, but white seems to penetrate the water further to my eyes.

[ezgoing]

I also used the white floating headlights where they were all that were available. The key was to cast beyond the light circle then swim you bait back through the circle and out the other side. Sometimes I would receive a hit before the bait swim into the light circle but most of the hits came as the bait swam back out of the light circle.

I switched to a green halogen underwater light for my slip when I found them. I found they did an excellent job of attracting plankton/bait fish. The crappie were still the same, ambushing the minnows just outside the light circle. White and LMB would move into the light circle, chasing the minnows. It is fun watching the white bass swimming upside down inside the circle of light.

When the green led's came out I bought a good portable green light stick to use with my boat. I also run green led lights around the edge of the boat. Both would have minnows swimming in the green light within an hour of turning them on and the crappie would again be ambushing the minnows outside the circle of light.

Ketchn has me starting to fish under a float. Trouble is I can't see the float beyond a few feet at night. So he told me to get some green light sticks and attach one to my float. I tried it last night. There was five people fishing lighted floats last night. One had a white light on his float, two had red lights and two of us had green lights. The two green light floats caught more crappie last night than the other three, using white and red lights. Since it was only one night it might not prove anything. But it proved enough for me to order 250 green light sticks from China this morning. Enough to keep me in green lights for floats for the next year when they arrive.
(250pcs /50packs Night Fishing Float sticks Lights Chemical Luminous Glow light Stick in Green Color $14.49)

So my choice based on my experience is green light beats white light. Plus as said, the green does not mess up your night vision.

[Pithon]

Well I tried a green light last night here in Mississippi, and our dingy dirty water did absolutely nothing. Dropped the light 5' and you couldn't even tell the was a light down there. Did not even get a single bite. $35 down the drain. Oh well live and learn. The kids and I did have fun night fishing though

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[Locator79]

Well I tried a green light last night here in Mississippi, and our dingy dirty water did absolutely nothing. Dropped the light 5' and you couldn't even tell the was a light down there. Did not even get a single bite. $35 down the drain. Oh well live and learn. The kids and I did have fun night fishing though

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Dropping lights on a full moon is not near as productive as a dark night. Don't throw the towel in yet. Green lights have been the demise of many limits.

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