I think the big overhead lights work better, but be careful if you have neighbors. Those overhead lights are blinding to the rest of the canal.

 

If you want to look at fish get a underwater light. If you want to catch fish get a above water light. It's that simple

 

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IME, the underwater lights are good to catch one fish about every 30 minutes. That scares the others off for a good while. With the overhead lights, there is not the same issue. You can catch one after the other. The overhead lights do cause a LOT of light pollution to neighboring houses/areas, so be conscious of that. I have found that the higher you can mount them and shine straight down into the water, the less light pollution and deeper penetration into murky waters.

 

I agree with this 100%. I am getting ready to get lights for my pier an am looking into LED's instead of the traditional overhead lights.

 

Yup, underwater for looking, overhead for catching. Never tried both together but maybe could be good.

 

Yes you will still catch fish in an effort underwater green light but not near as many in an overhead light.

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How about an overhead Greenlight? There is one that is on all the time at that first house on demi john island on the left side when you leaving from Bastrop Marina. Looks pretty NICE.

 

Depends on the canal or area you are trying to light up. Above water floods will attract more bait in a larger area. And fish are not near as spooky. And work no matter what the water clarity is. Green lights are junk in murky water. I have caught limits of Trout with Stage Lights and never in green lights unless you have several to hit. And you deal with people snagging them and damaging them. I would spread two out with an ambush area in between

 

Does LED lights work as well as stage lights? Where do you buy them from?

How do you know deal with setting up overhead light and upset neighbors?

 

3 of these work well on our dock. I'm sure there are better options, but the fish show up just about every night. Build quality could be better, but light output is excellent. Actual power draw was about 70 watts per light, so power use is not an issue. Had one die after about a week, but the company sent replacement led chips without any grief.

http://www.amazon.com/Sanzo-Floodli...2CWGN0Y/ref=pd_nav_hcs_bia_t_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=A9DBF5M4WRVCGCGJGSBK

 

We do a ton of LED lighting and have some strong solutions that would be great for dock lighting. I'm glad to hook up the 2cool family.

 

Underwater lights are for show. Catch 1, lucky if 2. Had to create super lures and now catch 17 and throw them back. Not economically feasible to make available to the public. For most underwater lights are like your own saltwater aquarium. Overhead lights aren't applicable to my situation cause my neighbors would skin me alive.


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We have both, use the greenies, changed out to LED, more of a blueish tint, still work good to attract the glass minnows, once we see the fish gathering in the Underwater lights we turn on the (2) `1500 watt overhead, and light up West Bay. We have the Underwater on a photo cell that run every night, LED do not cost much to run and will last a lot longer than the Mercury Vapor lights. Make sure you coat them with an anti fowling paint, we had to pull our as barnacles stop up the vent holes that cool the LED and they started cycling on and off. Great to watch the fish from the deck in the Underwater lights.

 

With the green lights, you have a higher chance of them breaking / stop working because people will trespass on your property, will cast from boat, kayak, dock across the canal, etc to fish them or will throw cast nets at bait on top of them. At my parents house, they have had 3 lights break in the last couple of years with hooks embedded in wires with things shorting out, broken with pieces of cast net stuck to the glass and 6 ounce weights on double drop rig all wrapped around the broken glass as well as jet ski covers with hooks in them, all kinds of hooks / lures / weights stuck on the dock, etc. So, if you get green lights, get ready for some of the above....

 

Do a search for past posts.

big rail road lights are nice but...

cheap lights.com out on 1960 have the bulbs and the par 64 cans to mount the bulbs in.

Been a while but the cans are 25-35$ depending and the bulbs are somewhere around the same.

Be sure to fig your lighting and electrical needs as each 1000 watt bulb pulls close to 8 amps when turned on a 15 amp breaker can have some problems so depending you may have to run different lines and turn them on separately but just fig what you need before running the lines and such.

 

You will enjoy both.

 

Big overhead stadium lights, hands down. If you can put them up where you are go that route. I have both and the advice above is true, green lights 1 fish per 30 minutes, overhead lights catch them all night long, two at a time on spec rigs. It seems that the farther you are from other lights the more productive they are.
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https://www.famousstages.com/stage-lighting/bulbs-sockets-fuses/par-36-56-64-replacement-light-bulbs
bulbs are 20-32 dollars for 500 or 1000 watt bulbs

Another thing that was discussed after you look at the old posts and I have pictures of of my set up for the boat IS to take the Par64 cans and cut the long front off close to the mounting bracket/ probably an inch or two and this makes a the cans easier to use and to carry for portable lights PLUS I was told it makes a better light on the water.

These are as cheap as you can get with a par 64 can for 25-30 dollars and 1000 watt bulb 32$ and I would cut the can off per the old pictures. If you do not like them then you are out very little money. Some people run both 1000 and 500 watt bulbs and some times the fish will be at one or the other during the clear water times. Check the old posts.

 

We have an overhead light at Baffin, but there is no "other side of the canal", unless you consider the Kenedy Ranch a mile or so away, so I don't worry about the light pollution. I have a set of 2 green underwater lights that I thought about installing at 45 deg angles from the pier, kinda at the edge of the overhead light. Or just under the pier with the thought that it might attract more bait fish. Anyone done anything like that or have thoughts?

 

http://2coolfishing.com/ttmbforum/showthread.php?t=229574&highlight=jimD

Pictures of the lights and old post with other lights and info.