What is at good fishing light to buy for night fishing. Been looking at a few online but dont wont to pay too much for one. Any info
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What is at good fishing light to buy for night fishing. Been looking at a few online but dont wont to pay too much for one. Any info
I use a black light and use floresent line so I can see it at night.
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Originally Posted by JamesH
Some things to consider when looking for lights
Cheap light puts out about if that much, like a using a birthday candle
270 Lumens
Our light puts out
600,000 lumens mushroom effect 10'-15' radius
Cost per watt theirs is $2.13
Cost per watt ours is .50 cent per
Our wire is 18/2 water resistance
corded so if you get tangle up in
weeds you should be able to save the light
We dont use cheap lamp extension cord
comes with 2-100 watt blubs
Made in USA
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1 year Limited warranty
I like the starfire by q==beam, also the above light looks good, but I've never tried one.
I use a home made version of one similar to this one.
12 Volt Light
I bought both of my lights at wally world. I have a cheap floating light and a submersible light with a 15 foot cord. Both lights have served well. I've got about 20 bucks in the pair. I do plan on getting one of those green lights everyone has.
I have a friend who bought a cheap (like 3 dollar) lantern from wally world that was battery operated and then put it into a pickle jar and tied a rope on to the lid, put a rock in the jar with the lantern and we sunk it, necessity is the mother of invention and on that particular night we did not have any of his submersible lights. I told him it would never work, the jar would leak, but it worked. First time I was ever wrong in my life I think, it felt weird
Same thing happened to me about ten years ago. My therapist says I should eventually make a full recovery.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by wish4fish
Actually about a month ago the wife and I were fishing and whatever the discussion was she looked around and said you know what you are right and I am glad I was here to see it. It was a glorious day for me!!
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.
I have fished at night under bridges only a few times. Does anyone tie up over sunken brush or do all of you only fish real deep water? There has got to be some baitfish around the brush right? And crappie?
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 hoursQuote:
Originally Posted by iivydriff
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
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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
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brush is ok but im usually lookin for a point over deep waterQuote:
Originally Posted by wish4fish
Well Im talking about fishing in Beaver Lake in NW Arkansas. Its a deep clear lake. Most of the time im fishing for White Bass when Im using lights at night. Although I do catch some crappie with this method also. I guess if I wanted to target crappie I would go up toward the upper end of the lake around the river arms. Most of the folks that I know that target crappie just fish on Bluffs. Brush has nothing to do with where they fish with their lights. The crappie in this lake will be as much as 30 feet deep in the hot summer. I like the water under the boat to be a minimum of 30 feet. Although I have slayed the White Bass with the boat sitting in only 18 feet of water. Most of the people who are tying under Hwy 12 Bridge on Beaver Lake are sitting over 100 feet of water.Quote:
Originally Posted by wish4fish
Well Ive seen some folks use green lights and if they are using live bait they will catch a few fish. But I dont fish with live bait because I can catch all the fish in the world with jigs so why spend the money on live bait? Ive used the green lights, and I didnt say they wouldnt bring in fish I just said they affect the way that they hit my baits. You know I wished I had pictures of when we used to target crappie on Beaver with a White light. Back when the limit was 20 per person weve caught as many as 100 crappie in one night.Quote:
Originally Posted by stinkies daddy
I think I know that guy on the right in your picture. His name is Curtis. That guy used to go with me fishing at night for whites. If that is him and Im pretty sure it is. I used to catch about 50 Whites to his One when he fished with me. Using Jigs to catch fish under lights is not for rookies even good fisherman when they first try it find it difficult. The fish spit the jig really quick. But Ill guarantee you one thing green lights are no better than white lights I do beleive that the green lights draw fish in, but there is something about that color that affects them in the way they see or something. All I know is I feel Ive got alot of experience night fishing with lights, and I can catch the hell out of fish with white lights, and I cant hardly catch crap with green lights. Even if im around other boats with green lights I cant catch fish. Now if your using live bait sure you will catch some fish.
Years back I used to love it when a boat would pull in close to me and put out white lights i loved it when there were 5 boats all bunched up with white lights. We would absolutely slaughter the whites, but nowadays about 3/4 of the folks have green lights and it just takes one green light to just shut it all down. Ive got just one question for you Have You ever tried white lights?
Stinkies Daddy I know for sure that is curtis I see now you are from Pea Ridge. Thats where Im from Ask Curtis about fishing at night when he was about 16 years old for whites. The guy he did that with was me. Thats been right at 20 years ago. Im sure he will have something cocky to say cause that is just Curtis. I think I know the guy on the left in the picture also. And i bet I know you too. PM me
Oh the spot I was talking about where we had caught limits of 100 crappie Was Just south of the Water intake up By Hickory Creek in July. But back then the limit was 20 and there was no length limit. We also caught channel cats, whites, hybrids. Im thinking about going up there and trying it here in a couple days. Im not a fishing guide, but Ive had guys who Ive took fishing tell me that I should be. And I wouldn't mind doing that, but Its not going to happen right now, but maybe later.
Any more I just chase whites because there is no limit. Who wants to catch 10 fish and go home. I like catching 200 fish in a night.
And if I were to target crappie i probably would use minnows like you, not jigs. Using live bait you might not be able to tell the difference between white lights and green lights, but using jigs its obvious.
We have
White lights for die hards
Green lights for believers
Blue lights for others
Halogen lights
LEDS coming soon
That sounds like the Nelson Hollow area, I've caught a lot of fish in there. I've never fished with a light in there. I probably will this year, there is a dock back there against one of the bluffs that has a. Dump truck load of cedars by it.Quote:
Originally Posted by iivydriff
I've never dropped a light down there at the hwy 12 bridge. I've. Seen times when you could nearly walk across from boat to boat.
Good info guys. If and when I attempt to night fish it will be on Greers Ferry. My question now is..... do ya'll tie up to something on the bluffs or do you prefer to anchor and get away from them?
I fish around docks, I generally anchor 6 - 8 feet off the dock, so I can keep a rod or two next to the dock. It depends what the fish are doing. Fish huddle around a light alot better if there is no moon. No moon June 10th-13th make sure your out there.
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Originally Posted by belliott
Yes Where Im talking about is just north of the mouth of Nelson Hollow right on the same bluff as the water intake. I havent got up there in years, but Im going there maybe tommorrow night. Its between Nelson hollow and the water intake. Years ago we caught crappie off that bluff like crazy. But honestly I dont think there are as many crappie in the lake as there was back then. And if you go to get a light I recommend the white lights!
Well its always nice to get out from the bluff a little. But you can tie right on the bluff if it is nearly straight down under the boat. Ive caught fish under lights sitting in as little as 18 feet of water, but I prefer to sit over a minimum of 30 feet. Ive also caught fish at 40 feet in late summer. The hotter the surface water temp the more important it becomes on the depth. Sometimes I can find tops of trees sticking up and it will be around 30 feet under the boat. Now where Im fishing it might be 30 feet deep under the boat, but on out away from the bluff another 20 or 30 feet it might be 100 feet deep. The reason for getting out there far enough is because in the summer most deep lakes develope a thermocline. Most of the time its not over 30 feet deep, but Ive seen it as deep as 40 or 45 feet deep. The thermocline is a cool band of oxygen rich water that lays between the hot layer of water on top and the cold oxygen poor water on the bottom. The reason I recommend 30 feet is because most people doesn's know at what depth the thermocline is. With a good fish finder you can adjust it to see the thermocline. But if you have a fish finder and you put out your lights afer awhile you will see on your screen the depth that the fish are at.Quote:
Originally Posted by wish4fish
Let me give you another little tip that really works for me. I use several different spots, depending on the wind direction will determine where I fish for that night. You need to fish on the spots that have the waves coming into it. Most people do just the opposite. Sometimes its difficult to get tied and anchored like that, but most of the time its worth it.
On Beaver Lake Where I fish Hwy 12 bridge is 1/4 mile long. I was on the west end one time with about 8 other boats. The water was crystal clear no incoming wind. We sat there for about 5 hours and not one fish was caught by us or anyone around us. I untied and moved to the other end of the bridge where the waves were coming into it. The water was stained. We tied threw our lights in and within 20 minutes we had a ball of shad under the bad that was incredible. We started catching Whites and by daylight we had over 100 fish in the boat. We caught them in about 3 hours time. There was 3 of us fishing. There was no one else up there on that end because everyone thinks the west end is the best because its right in the channel.
Its gotten to the point now where there will be people under that bridge from one end to the other.
3/4 moon set out the lights @ 9p and had bait fish by 10p. caught these on jigs until them stinkin ass gar showed up
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Very good post, pics, you all got me ready to hit the night life, me personally im a white light fan, but to each his own. If a lake has a bridge on it thats one of the first places i look at when night fishing for crappies or whites on new water. Ive heard of that Hwy 12 bridge for years, just never made it up there with all the water around me here. But thanks for the great info.:)
Ive got me a bow fishing rig I like to use in that situation. Gar is pretty good eatin.Quote:
Originally Posted by stinkies daddy
There's a very good discussion on green LED lights on the main forum under the thread title of "Honest discussion of LED lighting". Jumping Cholla Jigs makes a green LED light that seems to be very much liked by the folks that have bought one from him. Also he has some other threads that discuss light penetration, etc. that are pretty interesting.
ok, so maybe im missing something, im no scientist and im not trying to sell you one light over another....but during all this submersible light talk about what light colors penetrate farther under water, etc, I had an epiphany...correct me if im wrong, but doesn't white light have ALL the colors in it, since none are filtered out? and by putting a color filter on the bulb, aren't you actually limiting its output by blocking all but one wavelength? seems to me, let the water filter the light...and let the fish decide how far from the source the wavelenght/color is too their liking.
Ive heard that the green lights are supposed to be more bright because the color green penetrates water the best. I dont know if that is true or not all I know is green lights mess up my fishing. Maybe that is the problem maybe its too bright. Used to everybody had white lights and I used to try and get right in a crowd of boats because the more white lights were around it seemed that the fishing just got better.