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**knighttime** · 04-28-2015, 08:29 AM

Originally posted by b.latiolais View Post

I mean, for the money, I feel like something like this is worth a shot.

http://www.amazon.com/Driving-Off-ro...ds=48+watt+led

worth a shot I reckon. I wouldn't space them very far apart.

This is all in retrospect as to how much light you really want to have... I have killed a many of fish with a spot light and even two battery powered walmart off road lights when I started bowfishing. Now I have enough light to spot a gar in about a 30-40 foot radius around the mid to front sections of the boat.

**BowTech2010** · 04-28-2015, 08:41 AM

Blake, these are what you want for around here. http://www.southernliteled.com/new-5...fishing-light/

**Bisch** · 04-28-2015, 08:54 AM

I am in the middle of building this boat now.

I went with 12v Seelite LED's because I wanted to go silent. After I bought my lights, and thru much research (that I guess I should have done before buying the lights / I found the lights used at a real good deal) I have come to the conclusion that there is really no way to go silent unless you only want to fish for 4hrs or less, or you want to carry at least 6 Group 31 batteries in the boat, which weight upwards of 70# each!

I am not a real serious bowfisherman who will be going every night or who will fish tournaments. I have fished over the LED's before and think they are just fine. If I had known when I started this what I know now, I still think I would go with LED, but with the 120v version ran straight to a genny. And then I would get a converter to run from the genny to the batteries for the trolling motor.

Like GarGuy said above, lights and "cheap" don't go together.

Also, go to this website for a lot of info: http://bow.fishingcountry.com/forums/forum.php

Bisch

**35remington** · 04-28-2015, 09:07 AM

Paging OldBaldGuy . . .

My experience shooting over LEDs has been that they're great in clear water, but they suck in muddy water. Something about them does not allow the light to "pierce" the murky water as well as other lights.

**knighttime** · 04-28-2015, 12:13 PM

Originally posted by 35remington View Post

Paging OldBaldGuy . . .

My experience shooting over LEDs has been that they're great in clear water, but they suck in muddy water. Something about them does not allow the light to "pierce" the murky water as well as other lights.

Didn't know OBG was on this site! When I was building my first boat that poor man answered what had to be a thousand questions over HPS lighting. 99.9% of the time he was dead on!

**steven** · 04-28-2015, 12:58 PM

150 or 400 watt HPS is the way to go. Way more output than LEDs as far as lumen/wattage ratio goes and they can still be run dang near silently with an inverter generator. I've bought lights from E-conolight twice now and I've been very happy with them both times.

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