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drftwd 04-23-2013 11:16 PM

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.

bgizzle 04-24-2013 02:24 AM

I've had luck on both but green does standalone IMO

swamp snorkler 04-24-2013 06:32 AM

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.

MarshRat89 04-24-2013 09:09 AM

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.

MarshRat89 04-24-2013 09:10 AM

Where is your camp? I would be glad to put em up for you.

that guy 04-24-2013 10:49 AM

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.

flounder_smacker 04-24-2013 11:30 AM

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.

MarshRat89 04-24-2013 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by that guy (Post 573088)
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.

Spot on, I Had a customer call me back to put a dusk to dawn sensor on one in cyp. point. They said one of the other guys further down was consistently Smoking em. It worked! They loved it. And even if your only running them on the weekend. The big advantage is no maintenance for close to 10 years. In high (salty also) moisture environments your spending a $100-150 dollars every 2-3 years on service calls. (including parts). You will have paid the near the difference already and that's not counting bulbs every 8-10 months.

MarshRat89 04-24-2013 12:02 PM

If you do run em every night though a 43 watt LED replaces a 175w MH. You do the math.

flounder_smacker 04-24-2013 04:07 PM

price i got was $2,200 a piece for 2500 lumen marine led flood. got six lights total. thats not installed.

goldenrod 04-24-2013 04:14 PM

:eek:

MarshRat89 04-24-2013 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by flounder_smacker (Post 573209)
price i got was $2,200 a piece for 2500 lumen marine led flood. got six lights total. thats not installed.

Atlas makes a 43watt that puts out 2'800 lumens for about $380 are putting that on your boat or dock?

flounder_smacker 04-24-2013 05:17 PM

dock

MarshRat89 04-24-2013 05:21 PM

Yea you can almost do all 6 for that price you got.

flounder_smacker 04-24-2013 05:33 PM

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.

MarshRat89 04-24-2013 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by flounder_smacker (Post 573231)
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.

Damn that sucks.. Sure that wasn't cheap either. I've stopped complaining about how high copper is. My Name is Scott though I own Automated electronic solutions. If you ever need something let me know.

Shawn Braquet 04-24-2013 11:05 PM

Biggest LED advantage
 
Your leaving the biggest advantage out about LEDS, hardly any bugs!

eman 04-25-2013 06:58 AM

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.

smooth move 04-25-2013 07:51 AM

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

inchspinner 04-25-2013 08:39 AM

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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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