Thanks for sharing your insight!
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 !
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I think 2 anchors are a must. Because you don't want your boat to be swinging around with the wind and currents. One anchor on the bow and the other on the stern. Paint your rod tips flat white, I paint mine up to the first eye.
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I'll try to take pictures tomorrow of my equipment and setup.
Like Ofish mentioned, equipment and setup are all personal choice. You ask 100 people what brand, type, design and you will probably get 100 different answers. So I hope what is mentioned gets you some ideas to try. Give each one a try and see which you are comfortable with. Most people I've trained on jobs at work I always told them, what's easy for me may not be easy for you.
When I go to fish at night, I have a spot I want to fish and when I find my point of interest, a brushpile or drop-off, I'll throw a marker bouy off the back of the boat so I know exactly where to anchor. I'll usually back off the bouy a couple feet so it won't get caught up in anything. Once I had an anchor get loose and the bouy string ended up wrapped around the prop and it wasn't easy but I finally straightened it out. The bouy also will let me know if an anchor has got loose. I always use 2 anchors in case one gets loose or doesn't set good, I can still be where I'd like to be. I use LED work lights mounted to an aluminum pipe 6 ft long. I do some welding and have made some of the items for my setup as you will see in my pictures. I like to use telescoping rods 10 and 12 ft long mostly for the ease of transporting but also I can gauge line depth better. I use corks on a couple lines but that's mostly for my entertainment! As far as tackle I just use a split shot and a hook. I know some guys who simply drift at night, bumping the trolling motor on and off and that can work but it can be a handful at times.
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Now you tell me, been doing it wrong all these years
Here's my setup:
My old boat had rails around the corners and I made clamps for the pipe holding the lights. I wasn't sure if I would like not having the rails on the new boat so I made this for mounting the clamp. The second picture is the end of the pipe with the light.
Pics
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Are those Led lights on the end of the pole?
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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