Submersible Fishing Lights

[bobby b.]

Has anybody ever used those green submersible LED night time fishing lights to catch crappie or blue gill either in the boat or off the dock on TR?  If so, three questions:

1) How well do they work?

2) What size in Lumens do you use or have?

3) What brand or where did you get it?

Thanks

Bobby

[Champ188]

Bobby, there are a couple of active threads right along this line on the Beaver forum. Lots of info there that I think you could use.

[Stump bumper]

I am one of those posters on Beaver lake and can tell you I made a great light, but learned some lessons on the way. I won't repeat those on this thread. But if you are looking to buy, go BIG, wish I would have searched Amazon more before making mine. There are some good deals out there for under $50 so I would not recommend running out and spending $180 unless you just need it NOW.

They really do work around the docks a Prairie Creek on Beaver, they are all over the place and you can see kids catching everything from crappie to stripers every night. I love to cruse the docks on my way in just to see what is hanging around them. I have seen huge crappie, bass and even carp that have become pets.

Good luck  

[bobby b.]

3 hours ago, Champ188 said:

Bobby, there are a couple of active threads right along this line on the Beaver forum. Lots of info there that I think you could use.

Champ -

Thanks

Bobby

[bobby b.]

27 minutes ago, Stump bumper said:

I am one of those posters on Beaver lake and can tell you I made a great light, but learned some lessons on the way. I won't repeat those on this thread. But if you are looking to buy, go BIG, wish I would have searched Amazon more before making mine. There are some good deals out there for under $50 so I would not recommend running out and spending $180 unless you just need it NOW.

They really do work around the docks a Prairie Creek on Beaver, they are all over the place and you can see kids catching everything from crappie to stripers every night. I love to cruse the docks on my way in just to see what is hanging around them. I have seen huge crappie, bass and even carp that have become pets.

Good luck  

Stump -

Can you tell me the amount of lumens of the one you made and if not then the number of LEDs you used?

Thanks

Bobby

[merc1997 Bo]

i can tell you that the more light the better, especially if anchored in an area with other boats.  you have to out draw them.  we use two submersible halogens and one submersible green.  when you anchor up, it is an all night excursion, but when you get a big school of whites and stripers in underneath you, it can be like a chinese fire drill.  a great activity to take youngsters on.  when the bite is on, you will just stay busy keeping them baited up.

i did mention stripers because we often go do beaver to fish under the lights.  it does work great on table rock also.  docks that are located and connect up with a channel are most often the best.

bo

[Stump bumper]

https://www.amazon.com/SUPERNIGHT-Density-Green-Waterproof-Light/dp/B00BSODFOK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468430544&sr=8-1&keywords=led+light+strip+green+waterproof

Above is a link to the lights I used and also at the bottom they have the tube and sealant I also ordered it has 600 leds but wish I had ordered the bigger ones. They are in a 2 foot tube with plenty of room.

Sorry, I checked my order again and I got the 300 LEDS 3528s if I had done more research I would have ordered the 300 5050 LED strip. For about two more dollars twice the light.

[176champion]

I use to use 1157 tail light brake light bulbs, i would wire them so both elements would burn made a bracket out of pcv pipe that fit over the front of a 13 foot Boston Whaler and they hung down about 3 foot deep....coarse this was 25 years ago...put them in the water before we turned them on, they worked really well for what we where doing...we where gigging and the shallow canals and poling the boat.

[bobby b.]

2 hours ago, Stump bumper said:

https://www.amazon.com/SUPERNIGHT-Density-Green-Waterproof-Light/dp/B00BSODFOK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468430544&sr=8-1&keywords=led+light+strip+green+waterproof

Above is a link to the lights I used and also at the bottom they have the tube and sealant I also ordered it has 600 leds but wish I had ordered the bigger ones. They are in a 2 foot tube with plenty of room.

Sorry, I checked my order again and I got the 300 LEDS 3528s if I had done more research I would have ordered the 300 5050 LED strip. For about two more dollars twice the light.

Stump -

Do you think that the 300 5050 LED strip will fit in a 24 inch long tube?

Thanks

Bobby

 

[Stump bumper]

1 hour ago, bobby b. said:

Stump -

Do you think that the 300 5050 LED strip will fit in a 24 inch long tube?

Thanks

Bobby

 

Yes, same length just bigger lights on the strip.