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Location: Apparently where the Muskie aren't | When you guys fish at night do you leave your headlamp on while you fish? Specifically ultra clear water. Do you think it spooks followers at all? |
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| Not sure if it spooks the fish but I know it doesn't spook the bugs! I leave mine off until I need it.
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| Nope, the bugs would carry me away. I wear it but leave it off until it is time to net the fish. If I have a partner I don’t even turn my light on. Always have a spare where you can find it. |
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Location: Elroy, Wisconsin | No direct lights on fish. Aim a glow over the water, or rear nav light is enough.
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Location: SE Wisc | Let night vision kick in, keep the headlight off, will definitely spook followers |
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| No white light on when actually fishing. Unhooking is an entirely different story. With the flip of one switch my boat lights up brighter than Las Vegas. Close to 300ft of LEDs on the inside and outside will do that. |
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Location: Elk River, MN | Sometimes I'll fish with a red light on, preserves night vision and doesn't attract the bugs. Just enough light to see whats going on and even better when baits have some reflective tape on them. |
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| I keep mine off and turn my screen to the lowest brightness setting to keep my night vision. just do any extra fig 8 after every cast
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| ulbian - 5/29/2018 8:23 AM
No white light on when actually fishing. Unhooking is an entirely different story. With the flip of one switch my boat lights up brighter than Las Vegas. Close to 300ft of LEDs on the inside and outside will do that.
Never heard of light (LED's, etc) intensity expressed in ft? I use Lumens or Candela's. |
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Location: Elk River, MN | NPike - 5/29/2018 1:01 PM
ulbian - 5/29/2018 8:23 AM
No white light on when actually fishing. Unhooking is an entirely different story. With the flip of one switch my boat lights up brighter than Las Vegas. Close to 300ft of LEDs on the inside and outside will do that.
Never heard of light (LED's, etc ) intensity expressed in ft? I use Lumens or Candela's.
I think he's referring to how much light as in length of LED strips in the boat |
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Location: SE Wisc | Many nights you can check your bait by holding it up above the horizon. You should be able to see fowled hooks, weeds, etc, without turning on the headlamp. |
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Location: Apparently where the Muskie aren't | Thanks guys, guess I'll let the night vision work it's magic or maybe I'll try the red light. I just keep running my leader into rod tip and I figure that can't be good for my rod. |
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| Espy - 5/29/2018 2:43 PM
NPike - 5/29/2018 1:01 PM
ulbian - 5/29/2018 8:23 AM
No white light on when actually fishing. Unhooking is an entirely different story. With the flip of one switch my boat lights up brighter than Las Vegas. Close to 300ft of LEDs on the inside and outside will do that.
Never heard of light (LED's, etc ) intensity expressed in ft? I use Lumens or Candela's.
I think he's referring to how much light as in length of LED strips in the boat
Yup. The lumen potential of my setup if everything is lit is quite insane. I'm using 60 LED per meter strips with a 5050 chip in them. Those are going to be in the 1000 lumen range per meter. I had an accurate measurement at 284 feet of lighting before I connected one more group of RGB strips. Let's just say it's 290. 290ft converts to just over 88 meters. So that puts me in the 88,000 range for potential lumen output.
I have 6 different circuits/groupings of RGB lights that I have connected to 6 different (one for each group) bluetooth controllers. Just pull up the app on my phone and I can make them do what I want. 5 other circuits that are single color. Only 2 of the 11 circuits I'm currently using existed before (navigational lights, interior lights). 9 of them I had to wire and build from the ground up. This meant adding switches, running wires, installing a fuse block, and tying them together.
The lights on the outside of the hull (16ft of RGBs) are the ones I use when unhooking a fish. No aiming a headlamp, holding a flashlight in your mouth, or propping a flashlight up somewhere only to have it knocked over. Just hit the main switch for that circuit and boom...they come on and you have a very well lit up area to work with both hands.
Two of the pics attached are of the RGB strips on the inside of the hull stuck to the gunnel cap pointing slightly down towards the floor. Same light strip, one pic has them on green and the other has them on red. The other pic is of two circuits lit up in different colors. One circuit is under the front gunnel and the other circuit is under the mid/rear gunnel above the rod lockers and they are set to green and red.
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Location: Apparently where the Muskie aren't | Sweet setup, I like that deck you've got going too |
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| Musky_Mo16 - 5/29/2018 11:58 PM
Thanks guys, guess I'll let the night vision work it's magic or maybe I'll try the red light. I just keep running my leader into rod tip and I figure that can't be good for my rod.
use soft glow bead before leader ! |
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| Yes, keep it off! I actually try to run every light as dim as possible to help my night vision kick in. The best alternative is glow tape on the top of the lure or a glow bead by the top of the leader. If you fish at night a few times you will be able to feel where your bait and can feel when its time to figure eight. |
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| I used to use slip bobber knots about a foot or two above my leader. You will feel the tick and know when to stop. They usually slide though. A better method I found is to take a 6" piece of heavy mono and tie it above you leader with a uni knot so you can slide it up or down. This will stay in place longer than a slip bobber knot. |
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| Musky_Mo16 - 5/30/2018 12:36 AM
Sweet setup, I like that deck you've got going too
The deck space is nice. Three sections that I can move around based on how I’m going to fish and if someone comes along. There are a pair of square bend u-bolts on one of the sections that I’ll pop up and tuck my net handle in when a fish is in the net. It fits snug enough that the net won’t move and the bag hangs in the water. Just like the outer lights this gives me a “hands free” set up so I am freed up to work on a fish with both hands. No holding a net down with a different hand or needing to kneel on it so it doesn’t move. Get the net into that u-bolt and I can walk away from it, gather my thoughts and release tools and go to work. |
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Location: Cedarburg, WI | ulbian - 5/31/2018 7:19 PM
Musky_Mo16 - 5/30/2018 12:36 AM
Sweet setup, I like that deck you've got going too
The deck space is nice. Three sections that I can move around based on how I’m going to fish and if someone comes along. There are a pair of square bend u-bolts on one of the sections that I’ll pop up and tuck my net handle in when a fish is in the net. It fits snug enough that the net won’t move and the bag hangs in the water. Just like the outer lights this gives me a “hands free” set up so I am freed up to work on a fish with both hands. No holding a net down with a different hand or needing to kneel on it so it doesn’t move. Get the net into that u-bolt and I can walk away from it, gather my thoughts and release tools and go to work.
Excellent idea with the U bolts. Day or night fishing, that's an excellent idea. Thanks. |
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