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| For any of you guys with a bioology or fisheries background - how well do muskies see and react to light at night? - I was told that a "green" light will not spook or stray muskies from the boat - (so if you have a head lamp and cover it with a piece of plastic from a Mountain Bottle you are good to go). When it's pitch black out and you need light to see what's going on is green light better - or doesn't it really matter? |
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| I am sure that you can fish them with your boat lights on while fishing. This exposes them to white, red and green. I have caught musky, smallmouth bass and walleye with boat lights on while casting. I am not sure it affects them as much as it does us(through literature warning us not to do it). If some think fish are conditioned to such stimuli and become boat shy, I am guessing that those same fish certainly are aware of the echo signature of a boat presenece, and also they cannot be missing the click of depth finding and whirr of electric motors.
And after saying that, I will repeat as I have before that I doubt all that stuff is a fish ATTRACTANT, and I have very strong feelings that a certain number of fish are repelled by the stimuli we present while on the water, and to maximize your actual presentations to fish, you would fish with no external stimuli warning the fish.
The tough question, can you eliminate all those stimuli you put out and still efficiently cover water and present baits? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | And, to continue FSF's line of thinking, be legal and able to see what we are doing?
Most of the light from a stern light is diffused. I know this from a couple night dive trips I took many many years back. Most of the headlamps today are LED, also a diffuse and indirect source of light.
IMHO the main issue is the sensitivity the fish's eye has to bright light after going to rod vision. It literally will blind the fish if you hit them with a bright beam of light. I haven't seen anything in the literature that adding a green lens will stop that effect, other than lessening the direct light. |
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| I fished alot at night last year, and can tell you for sure that when the fish is in the net my green headlamp irritated them less than the white light.
I'm not sure about using a green light at all times, but its nice to have while unhooking a fish. |
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Location: Ft. Wayne Indiana | Keep your boat lights on, but keep all head lamps off until you need them...
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light at night