What are your light set ups for night fishing?

What's up every one,

I would like to know what everyone's light set up is for night fishing. Do you only use head lamps or??  I would like to hear your recommendations.
I like GT's diy light bar.
I want to try tubing at nigh idea here in San Diego. I have talked to a few tubers here and no ones tubed at night and I know it be killer at some spots I fish.
Thanks in advance

SD Bay Bassn

I’ve fished with GT; and his DIY large paneled lights a few times, and they are super super bright and very effective. They illuminate and they work great!
I could always see him .... no matter where he was.

I go a slightly different route ...
I go as light-weight as possible and I don’t like to carry any extra wires, cables, mounts, ABS or PVC pipe, hardware and or heavy batteries.

At night I use:
The “Legend” dog-walking lights on Amazon; that are water resistant, they twist to turn on and off and they are (DIY) Velcro mounted so they can be turned off and removed when not being used and easily stowed away in a ziplock snack bag.
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Everyone (including GT) says that they can easily see my USCG safety (R,G&C) lights while I’m on the water.
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So when I need some bright light ... this is what I use, the Atomic Light. Each Atomic light weighs approx 12 ounces w/ batteries.
Still light weight. And when I don’t need it, I stow it away.

I simply illuminated it when a boat is approaching or I need a brighter light in order to feed my line back through my rod’s eyes or I need to tie a knot or to undo a knot or to do surgery on a fish.
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I hope that this helps to give you a few more options or ideas on how to DIY light-up your sled.

Have fun and please post up pictures of how you did your DIY US CG Safety lighting or pic’s of your end product, if you would.

SP Dan

I use a head lamp for light when taking off fish and changing lures. I have a white light with a flag and a red/ green light that is always on for visibility. If is pretty basic set up. You can find the lights i got as a set that clamps on on amazon for about 30 bucks.

I just bought these on Amazon.  They look similar to what Dan is recommending.  I hope they work well!

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I also wear a headlamp for when I need brighter light

This is what I purchased over four years ago and still use today.

Amazon: Adventure Lights Guardian Dog Light

I superglued Velcro to my float tube and to the bottom side of my guardian lights as well, for easy attachment and removal.

Thank you guys for the ideas. I will keep you all posted on what I DIY and rig up.


SD Bay Bassn

Have fun being creative!

sdbaybassn wrote:Thank you guys for the ideas. I will keep you all posted on what I DIY and rig up.


SD Bay Bassn

I am looking forward to some pics of what you develop.

A little late to the party...a friend of mine just let me check out his new head lamp. Check out "hurkins orbit". He used it on a recent outing on a trip to the wall and that thing was amazing and had great battery life. The seller is it's 180* of light vs a spot light head lamp.

kin wrote:A little late to the party...a friend of mine just let me check out his new head lamp. Check out "hurkins orbit".  He used it on a recent outing on a trip to the wall and that thing was amazing and had great battery life. The seller is it's 180* of light vs a spot light head lamp.

Thanks for the heads up, that looks interesting.