Does anyone have any experience with the green fishing lights in saltwater, both above and below water? We are re-doing our pier and are considering these. Are these any good, http://www.deepglow.com/shopping/home.php?cat=1?

Thanks for any information.

[This message has been edited by rebel 02 (edited 8/3/2011 10:58a).]

from what i hear, these things are borderline cheating.

We have them in three places in the marina where we own a place in Port Aransas. One is in the area of the kids pier and the other two are in open/non slip areas where kids fish. They are very pretty at night...emerald green.

The fish that I see are mostly perch....rarely see a shrimp. Kids catch a lot of them and every now and then they catch a trout. I don't think they attract like the penetrating white lights...but that may be more a function of the marina.

The advantage I see in stopping to watch the little kids fish is they don't attract bugs like the white lights do.....nor do you ever see a moth make a burning death dive into the water.

These are the underwater type. I know nothing about the maintenance of them but I can ask if you want that info.

The productivity of lights is based more on the location of the lights than the type of light. I have had better success overall around the underwater green lights but if you are in the back of a 3ft deep canal 1/4 mile from a channel, your success will be limited. I fished around a friends lights in the intracoastal in Port O'Connor and the action was awesome. 20 in specks and keeper reds are not uncommon. I have also fished around lights in a canal off of Bastrop Bayou near Freeport and struggled to catch a hardhead.

Thanks guys! We are in a pretty good spot on the Colorado near Matagorda. Just looking into options for upgrading.

Rebel, we did on the Colorado a couple of Thursdays ago. I was fishing north of the icw. Thursday night was good, and Friday and Saturday nights were both terrible, ie more lights. We use the penetrating white railroad lights. It has always seemed that the person with the brightest, most penetrating lights wins.

We caught a few specs early and a few after the bar, and plenty of sand trout for fish tacos. Most of the fun was spent watching fists fly and egos swell at the bar, during a CHARITY(oilmans) fishing tournament.

I have fished under green lights. My favorite was the underwater kind.

Id go for the biggest underwater lights you can buy

I am in the same situation right now. We are building a house on a bulkheaded lot in POC. I originally wanted to purchase some of those underwater lights, but I changed my mind when I was told about the marine growth and required maintenance. I am still not sure what I will do.

They also make those underwater lights where they are attached to a weight but the light itself floats. This keeps it off the bottom and reduces the rate of the marine growth.

I fished under some green lights in the ICW South of Port O'Connor one time. I'd never seen or heard anything like it. You could literally hear the trout hitting shrimp and crabs and a couple of times a minute see them swimming near the surface. We would throw spoons out just past the reach of the lights and real in. For a while you got a bite every other cast, and then it just stopped.

I have an underwater light in our canal at our place in Galveston. I can tell you that they really do attract fish, and quality fish at that. I've got one that has a weight and the bulb suspends just above the bottom. Have had no issues with marine buildup or bulb maintenance. Light comes on every night and burns off any algea. Did have a couple issues with the RFI plug tripping and the dawn/dusk sensor that triggers the light on and off, but those were not directly related to the light itself, and have not had any problems in over a year.

They do have drawbacks though, fish are very spooky in underwater lights. You can't hang out on the dock making a bunch of noise or fish will move out of the light. If you catch one or even get a bite, fish will scatter and you gotta give the light a rest for 15-20 min before they come back. I like to catch a fish, go up stairs and sip my beer for a few minutes, watch TV, come back down and they are back, catch another, rinse and repeat.

Fish won't be as spooky if the light is in deeper water in a main canal or cove. More wind/current/ripples to distract the fish from what is going on. We are in the back of small canal so don't have that luxury.

I've got the overhead penetrating lights also and I tend to like those more if I'm actually going to be "fishing" rather than "stalking". Better for making blind casts and not having to worry about scaring the fish off or anything. More consistent I would guess, especially if the fish are there.

Both are good lights, but just a different approach of how to fish in them IMO.

So basically what I guess I'm saying is get both types of lights ...haha gotta keep your options open.

Get both

Coop - what brand did you go with for the suspended lights? The depth in my canal averages around 6-7 feet so I think these would work great. I just don't know who sells them or where I should get them.

thanks

Build your own. Thats what we do and they are like magic. Much cheaper too. You can find plans all over the internet

Thanks everyone! Any suggestions on brands/models?

Need to get the number for the lady in texas city that sells them. Very reliable and a lot less expensive that the ones listed above. No web site but she puts ads in the back of the local Galveston magazines. I'll get the name this weekend when I am down there.

I just had some installed at my place in Port Isabel. I think the name of the company is underwaterattactor or something like that. For about $600 they come in, do it and guarantee it. They will let you try it out risk free.

Mine are right next to a bright regular light that attracts fish real well. What I notice is that the green light attracts more and bigger bait. There seem to be larger trout around the greenlight as opposed to the white light. But the white light has a few more fish. As mentioned no bugs. What I do find is that Redfish and Snook come around the green lights, in fact we caught to Redfish last night. Some renters I had caught a couple of Snook. But they were around the green light, not the white light.

Either way you will be ok, I am kinda liking the green light a little more thus far. We will see about the maint. on it.

We tried out a product a few years ago that was a suspended above-water white light with a weed eater attached right below the light bulb. Every 15 minutes the weed wacker would briefly come on and knock all the insects into the water. Fish would feed on the insects. This was fresh water. It worked really well. The drawback was we were on a public lake and fisherman would anchor outside our pier and fish for hours. We took it down. I'm not even sure of the brand. I helped produce a fishing show and the inventor brought it to us to try out.

JWS (or anybody else), did you guys get any names of manufacturers over the weekend?

We rock the blue unders on our BW. Used them for the first time last November out at BV and tore up the tuna and dolphin. One of the best night fishing trips I have ever been apart of.

http://www.fishnlights.com/

Above is a link to where you can buy the underwater dock lights