Flounder Lights AC or DC?

[Marytime]

Just added a little 17 foot Carolina Skiff to the fleet. I would like to add some lights for floundering. What do you reccommend, DC lights or AC and a small generator. Pros and cons. Any pics of your flounder light set ups would be greatly appreciated.

[welder]

AC with a small genny , it takes a butt load of watts to run your lights.

Warthog5 , might be along soon with some Pics.

Lester

[bluffman2]

this is my setup...i love it...i have since added another light to the strbd side ....i get about 12-15 any given night

[Kern O]

Ok, for those of us who have not done it, how do you attract flounder with the lights at the surface? I've always drifted for halibut, knowing the best bite was right about at the surf line. Those three 500 watt work lights ought to really light things up. On the west Coast (California), that setup would be used to bring in squid. We've had several years of massive catches of Humboldt squid. They are big, mean and great eating.

[bluffman2]

Kern....we get in shallow water and the lights shine the bottom and we look for the outline of the flounder or look for them swimming and we "gig" them....its not as easy as one would think!!

[vettnman]

No, it's not as easy as you would think, BUT, it sure is fun. I did my first flounder giiging trip about a month ago. We waded through the water with our lights, had the batterys in little 2 ft boat behind us. Man, I'm hooked on that now!

[welder]

Kern O , some of the boats off of the Texas coast will run in REAL SKINNY water , so shallow that they run a small fan [ honda motor with prop ] . It's a baby air boat set up.

Our coast line here ,well, its like the beach goes out about 20 miles.

20 miles out is 90 to 100 feet of water off of most of texas' coast

Lester

[Kern O]

From seeing them while diving, they can blend into the bottom pretty well during the day. They are so good that they can almost be invisible. I'm guessing they don't blend as well at night so you can see 'em. Camo just does not work that well at night, But you then gig 'em? Heck, that sounds like pretty good fun. FWIW, don't ever try a spear gun out of the water. They kick like a mule. In that shallow water, you must see a few stingrays as well?

[vettnman]

sting rays, needlefish, mollusks, you name it. They do blend in, but you look mainly for the shape of the fish, not the color.

[gary240]

Louis, We used to do it with DC powered lights...worked ok. I know a lot of people that use the AC Genset and prefer it that way. Let me know if you ned some company getting them.

Gary