We took one of our bows, epoxied a bright light in the middle of a wrap around type line holder that screws in stabilizer hole, rigged a toggle switch and ran clip on wires to boat battery. Then went out with battery operated hand held spotlights to spot fish, then switched on the bow light when ready to shoot. A quick hint if you do it this way and haven't bowfished very much, rig the light so that when your light is on the fish, you are actually aimed a little low to compensate for the water refraction. We could shoot all night and never run down the boat battery, and didn't have to rig halogen or led lights all around bow of boat. Now to be certain, we didn't see as many fish as when we bowfish with a guide in an airboat with enough halogen to create artificial daylight, but we did see and shoot a ton of fish. We have fished carp, gar, buffalo, and bass (even a brim or two) in fresh water, but it does not compare to redfish, spadefish, flounder, and gar in the marsh. And it seems to be easier to find clear water in the marsh for us where we live. We usually locate good water during the day, then go back out at night to where we found the good water to save time running around in the dark.
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