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lighting a boat for crabbing, and gigging

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CitySlicker
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I am looking for ideas on lighting up a pontoon boat for night time fishing. Something removable, and on the cheap. Any pics of your craft, or ideas would help. I was thinking some type of removable pvc rail setup with several 12volt lights. We are trying to set it up for June, july night time crabbing trip around Chass? Hommasassa. Any feed back on how the crabbing is in that area. Tampa Bay just is not worth the trouble any more.

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OriginalCracker
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Have you seen the underwater lights? Their pretty slick and fish like them. A lot of people in boca have them at the end of their docks and they really attract snook.
These strips are pretty slick too. Not the underwater lights im talking about but will be awesome for crabbing.

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Iluv2hunt
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Clamp on lights and a small generator will be your best bet. If you just clamp to a battery you won't get much life out of it

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FLQuacker
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What Allen said...we had a PVC deal set up with 2 lights using glass outdoor globes that sealed on the socket. Flip em down in the water...had aluminum pie plates for reflectors. Getting them in the water is the ticket...very little reflection that way.

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Triple Creek Reaper
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Clamp on lights and a small generator will be your best bet. If you just clamp to a battery you won't get much life out of it

// This // I have seen those guys using modified john boats for bow fishing and they are using small generators to run the lights

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