night time fishing
Wanting to get some metal halide lights for the bay house. You guys that fish lights at night what do you have the best results with ...green or white light? Going to mount them on the boat dock. Thanks for the help.
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I've had luck on both but green does standalone IMO
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They all work....... the one think I've found when the trout start biting at night is to cast away from the light and swim your bait to it.
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From an electricians stand point. I would recommend LED instead. You will pay more upfront, but will burn 67% less wattage with the same amount of light. Also going LED will eliminate a lot of maintenance cost. Even with little to no use In a high moisture environment you will eventually have issues with your ballast, igniter, capacitor, or bulbs. With LED you'll get a lot more years of reliable maintenance free and efficient service.
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Where is your camp? I would be glad to put em up for you.
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I've had better luck fishing off the white lights. As long as u turn them on habitually so that the bait / fish get use to it being on either color will probably work the same.
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White or green work. We have white on the post and three underwater green LEDs. Seems to be a good combo. LEDs up top are nice but they cost to damn much. I could see the cost savings if you used your lights every night but we only run ours on the weekend.
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If you do run em every night though a 43 watt LED replaces a 175w MH. You do the math.
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price i got was $2,200 a piece for 2500 lumen marine led flood. got six lights total. thats not installed.
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Yea you can almost do all 6 for that price you got.
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yeah maybe when these start to fail we will replace with led. reason we were looking at them is because we added on to the boat shed with more lights a second lift and other stuff. we were drawing to much amps and either needed to go led or pull bigger wire from the camp. we just pulled new wire.
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Biggest LED advantage
Your leaving the biggest advantage out about LEDS, hardly any bugs!
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Just a PSA, make sure that you install lights high enough where little hands and/ or inebriated hands can't touch the light. Once they have been on an hour they will sear the skin right off a hand.
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this was taken in my neighbors light. they were in his light one night and mine the next, just moving back and forth.
http://youtu.be/82ovtsWQ1NA |
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I like greens, but have done good on both, it also helps when you get someone to bring in some live oysters;)
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