Thread: Nite Stalk How To

Have has several questions on how to setup for Nite Stalk. Will try to get this in with several post. Some by myself. A lot by others that night fish a lot. First off I dont know of any perfect way that will work for every person or situation. So gonna start with a few basic setups on my boat. Then you can work out what is best for you. Number one thing I push is safety. Night is a bit different animal. Things can happen quickly at anytime. So I say everyone have a life jacket on. The self deploy type are best for me. Once you wear one a couple times you almost forget you wearing it. And in S.C. they must be on person or they wont count towards the one for each person law. Cant be in the seat or storage locker. Must be on. Yall smart enough to figure that out .

Ya gonna need some lights and a power source for em. Not just your nav. lights. LED has taken the hard part out of lighting up an area. Can get what I call drop lights at most any sporting shop. The big names and some mom and pop stores have em. EBay Amazon Wish have tons of em. I got several of different size and colors. Have even made a few.. But as cheap to buy em. Color is up to you. Most people use green or white. Have seen red or blue being used. Personal preference again. Most have the little alligator clips to hook to your battery. I dont think hooking them to your main cranking battery is a good idea. But have seen it before and had to jump folks off. Back in the day we used 110 house lights ran off power inverter.It workwd but glad they gone. LED just takes very little power to run all night. Have had as many as 3 lights on 1 lawnmower battery.

Batteries are next . 99 %of LED lights are 12 volt. And if your boat is like mine room is a luxury we dont have a lot of. So use as few batteries as needed. My setup has 1 battery for each person on board. I usually fish 2 people sometime 3 and have had 4. I use a lot of the small motorcycle batteries or a good mower battery works well. Make sure they are charged up. If you got room for a spare it aint a bad idea to have one. To keep this kinda short and sweet will put more on in another post. Anybody wanting to add to this please feel free. Question are better asked before you get to the ramp and say ...What about? The pictures aint the best but give you an idea. And we do catch a few and have a great time trying !

I have tweaked my setup over the years, one thing I've always looking at is how to hurry to get stuff up if a storm is coming. If you find a setup you are comfortable with the results can be great