Could my submergible green light be to bright?

[Les Young]

It's 15,000 lumen & light a big area. I almost think it's to bright for using & being able to fish pretty much straight down with a minnow at night. I ordered a just over 1000 lumen white light to give a try instead of the bright green one like i have now. Any suggestions?

[CrappiePappy]

Never had much luck with submersible lights, white or green. Best luck I've had was back in the day when we used a two mantle Coleman gas lantern with a shield (maybe 600 lumens, possibly higher). Nowadays, IF/WHEN I would ever use lights to fish at night ... I'm hooking up my two 12v "black lights" and replacing the UV bulbs with white light bulbs. They'll light up the rods and the water under them, and draw Shad up to the surface.
For me, the really bright submersibles make too large a circle of light and may even keep the fish out away from the boat. That requires slip floats in many cases.
Now for the disclaimer : I've yet to use lights at night for Crappie since having LS, so ....

[BuckeyeCrappie]

I have used one from Berkley when we tried night fishing. It did attract baitfish and bugs but did attract some pannies as well. I don’t recall or know the lumens but Im interested to know how your new whit light works out for you.

[Les Young]

I’ll post the results of the submersible white light after trying it. I may just cover up most of the green light too to see if that helps any. I could be totally wrong on both counts but it wouldn’t be the first time.

[sinkum]

I like a white light an some nights it doesnt need to be to bright either darker the moon less light for me
I have some of the new bright green ones because my son in law thought they would be better
We have way better luck with the cheap white ones
But every lake could be different also i think water clarity plays into it

[micorps]

I use the Green Blob 15K lights and work great, even the walleyes dont mind running through the lights. I do not recommend the Green Blob lights though, one 15K lumen light only lasted three months and doesn't work anymore and no responses to my message. I have two of these. They do work great though but are spending and would like multiple years of use. my guess is for those not catching fish is two fold, one is not attracting bait or two is setting up in the wrong location. I always set up on the deeper side of a point and structure now after fishing in front of bridges which was also very productive.

[DockShootinJack]

I built a monster about 10 years ago. About 24 inches long. 16 foot string on legs. I dropped it in at a honey hole. Connected it in the battery and had a 50 foot diameter green blob on the water. It was enough light coming up out of the water and reflecting off of the bottom side of the bridge you could re tie your lines. The shad showed up so thick you looked like you could walk across them. And the crappie. Well the crappie stayed out in the dark water. They wanted nothing to do with being in my green disco light.

[Ketchn]

we used to do a bunch of night time crappie ketchn , never did see a huge difference in the amount of light or color of it in most spots .
our best trips were over floating headlights way back when , they were pretty darn bright as I remember , I do know most of the time no crappie were actually in the light , the fringes of it was where they stayed .

[Darbonne_Guy]

I fished for about three years with two submersible green lights in the summer time before I got hooked on forward sonar.
The ones I had were 2k lumens so 15k might be more suited for saltwater or very deep water. I know the 2k lumen ones were so bright I had to cast 20ft or so to get to the edge of the light where the crappie and bass liked to stage.

Some nights with those were just magic, the bait fish would be circling the boat by the millions and you could tell where the bass were because there would be a gap in the bait fish.

*One modification I made to my lights that helped a ton was attaching a wide flat plate under the lights (just scrap sheet metal) so that it blocked the light from going down. That gave the crappie a place to hide under the light and you could drop your jigs/bait under that dippling in and out and get bites much more often. Very very useful if you set up above a big brush pile.