Boat lighting

Anyone out there have any ideal setups for boat lighting for night fishing? I’m looking for lights to light up shoreline and front of boat when out at night. I am really interested in the gobee go light but have read some bad reviews. Another route I’ve looked at is rigid industries marine lighting. Just wondering what you guys out there are using at night pitching cranks at shorelines for spring walleye that works well for you. Feel free to post pics of your setups thanks.

When it comes to lights in the boat at night, less is better. A head lamp for landing and unhooking fish. A couple hand held flashlights and a hand held spotlight for finding the channel markers.

Like this?

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If you are looking for a handheld light check out the “Streamlight WayPoint Spotlight” sold by Cabelas. Currently they are on sale right now for $59.99. Runs on 4 C batteries. I have tried a lot of different hand held lights over the years and this on is by far the best I have used and most durable. LED lights and has a high/low/strobe settings. I am going on 2 years on the original set of batteries and its showing no signs of getting weak yet.

Check out superbrightLEDs.com… do a google image search for it as well.

Joel VandeKrol wrote:

Check out superbrightLEDs.com…

I had terrible…absolutely terrible…experiences with their LED trailer lights. They always replaced them under warranty, but I did 4 replacements before I gave up and went with another manufacturer.

Yes something like this walleye joe. How far can you see out towards shoreline with that setup or do you just turn them on when landing fish? Thanks

Less light is more for sure. Headlamps are all you need. For running and docking, a spot light on the front of the boat can be helpful at times — I use mine for docking and for running when I need to see buoys. Be sure to mount any spotlight below the gunnel outside the boat so that the glare doesn’t blind you. I bought a waterproof LED lamp on ebay and put it on a bracket attached to the underside of my trolling motor mount. It works great. Trying to light up the water around you is a great idea in theory but not so much in practice.

That’s not good. My experience has been good and have purchased several Items

I usually run them all the time after dark except when the bugs are really bad. They are really inexpensive and dont take a lot of juice to run them. I cant see the shore from about 50 feet away when I have them at 100%. I did buy a remote so I can dim them or turn then on and off from anywhere in the boat. I also have these same lights around the inside of my boat which are also on a remote so I can dim them down. I think I have about $50 into the whole set up which includes 5 strings of lights at 16.5 feet each and 2 remotes. Like I said fairly inexpensive.

WalleyeJoe what type of lights did you use and where did you get them. Sounds like a nice set up.

Thanks Geoffrey

Be careful with those lights guys..

This from the 2014 Minnesota Fishing Regulations handbook.

Using an artificial light to lure or attract fish is unlawful. Exception: While angling, a person may affix to the end of a fishing line a lighted artificial bait with hooks attached.
Any battery that is used in lighted fishing lures must not contain mercury.

Just saying ….

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