Thread: Night fishing: how bright of a light?

As far as how bright just remember the crappie will be hanging out at the edges of the light. So if it throws too big of an Circle it may be hard to reach the edges. I have white and green lights that I made. I like the green one a little better.

I made some last year that were a foot long. I put 4 one foot strip LEDs lights around and sandwich them between 1-1/4 piece of pvc pipe and the clear florencent light bulb protector. I used two, one on each side of the boat. I had good luck with them. This year I made a couple of 2 ft lights with 8 LEDs strips, I haven't used them yet.

There's a picture of the way I made mine. I did add about 8 oz of weigh to sink them

I like those lights. I though of making some to run around the bottom edge of my old - new to me pontoon. Two strips to shine on water and one strip facing slightly up for rod tips to light up. Still on drawing board. I would do them in white led and still drop my star fires down.

Those of you that use inverters....why couldn't you use a battery charger hooked to the battery and then hook the charger on the battery. You'd never run out of power.

I tried a night fishing memorial day weekend. Discovered that my LED light attracts bugs, but not fish. just wonder how deep you guys put your light down?

Just under the water about 6-12 inches. How ever have seen some deeper. The object is to get the bait higher under your lights and then crappie move in and up. The longer in the water the fish will come right on up in the lights with the bait. As said sometimes they can be caught in the shadows of the light. When the bite slows down put a line out in the shadows and see what happens. It don't hurt to fish staggered rods long and short. Bugs are a little bad this year on Wylie too! Hope you get a boat load on your next trip.