Green LED Fish attracting lights?

[Thudpucker]

Has anybody made their own setup?
Did you use a commercial variety?
How'd it work?
Was it a PITA to deal with?

 

[Radioactive]

I'm more familiar w/ the fluorescent type.

You can buy a commercial unit, but we had a local who made them up for about 10% list price.

They do what you expect: the light attracts the bait which attracts...

Were they worth it? imho, borderline. Others liked them a lot. but for me, anything that you need to rig, w/ wires all over the place is just one more thing to get tangled. They do attract bait. YMMV.

LED units, while they might be energy efficient, are not going to be much more efficient than a fluorescent tube, but at a higher initial cost for the same light output.

 

[Bill D.]

I've got a friend who has one on his dock at Dauphin Island. he catches lots of specks at night and is able to load up his bait tank with croaker and other baits before going offshore. I agree with Bill, unless rigged with wires completely out of the way. Hanlan and I talked about installing them on the Bertram, but decided we catch more than enough fish anyway....

 

[jtybt15]

Get them glow sticks. Actually, any lights will attract bait fish. I've gone fishing on party boats to Catalina Is. They use big spot-lights to attract squid...by the thousands. On the otherhand, they get their anchovies from the bait dock.

Did you ask the catfish fishing guide his secret???[]

 

[Thudpucker]

Charlie I have those Glow sticks. You have to keep them in the freezer or they just die.
I tied three of them together and lowered them over in six feet of water right at the edge of a creek outlet.
I could see the light sticks moving as fish bumped them, but couldn't see what kind of fish it was.

My green light idea is gonna be a circle about 8" in diameter on a line I can lower from my seat.
Another idea was a Floating thing you could throw out in the water and let is float on the surface.
When it warms up I'll know a little more about my dreaming.

 

[jtybt15]

There are pill sized light sticks. I remember seeing some in a tackle shop.

 

[JohnC]

I use the 'Swordlight' on overnight tuna trips. I think it was about $200, has a cigarette lighter plug. They have different colors, mine has a blue tube and a green tube. The wire is made to hold the weight of the light so I tie it to a cleat and then run the plug up to the flybridge where I have an outlet. It definitely attracts fish, we've had schools of little bait fish around it at night. I might go for transom mount LEDs this winter, nothing hanging in the water when a fish hits and much brighter but for the money the drop in did the job.

 

[Flutterby]

I've been told those things are great for catching fisherman......

 

[rduhon]

Lots of them are permanently installed on docks in SW La. and SE Tx. for evening fishing.
They automatically come on at a certain time and turn off after a certain time.
This keeps the fish "trained" to come to the lights at a certain time and place.
They work very well like this.