homemade underwater led light pod

[awthacker]

Looks like a nice project. Just curious, are the LEDs functional at all, or is it just aesthetics? I mean, are they useful for certain fishing techniques or just a look good thing?

[Kracker Jack]

Originally Posted by awthacker

Looks like a nice project. Just curious, are the LEDs functional at all, or is it just aesthetics? I mean, are they useful for certain fishing techniques or just a look good thing?

I fished on a 25' foot Gradywhite drum fishing at night one time. It had transom lights and it was the coolest thing and very useful for boating the fish. I also do some overnight shark trips here out of va beach. One night my buddy brought his cheap float light just for the hell of it and within 2 hours we had spanish mackeral buzzing through the light eating small baitfish. With the bio- luminesence that night it was cool to seem them green streaking through the water. So yea it has fishing uses. And of course it looks good at the dock. My leds are cool white color so they will be a conservative white instead of all them crazy colors some boats have.

[spareparts]

so where are you getting the LED's from? What kind of money for the the light strips?

[Destroyer]

Looks cool. And on the stern the white light would certainly be legal. Not sure how much I'd use it, but I cannot deny that it looks really nice.

[jasoncooperpcola]

I will take 5.

Also this glue, can I use it to glue a broken piece of lexan back on a windshield?

[Kracker Jack]

Originally Posted by spareparts

so where are you getting the LED's from? What kind of money for the the light strips?

http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-b...142.htm#photos

heres the link for just about any led you can think of. even cabin light replacement bulbs.

[Kracker Jack]

a couple more pics of his design. He used a high output led with a plug. He could not cut the plug off because that contained the electronics for the led.

[Kracker Jack]

what has me intrested in all this underwater light stuff was a boat I seen from miami about 8 years ago before this led marine thing was really popular. This boat was fishing the same tournament my brothers boat was fishing out of pirates cove,NC. We walked by this boat on the way back to the big tent to grab some more food and beer. This thing was lit up like a christmas tree and looked awesome and I remember seeing the stack of money on the table inside the salon where they were playing poker!!!! I always told myself I wanted a boat that had atleast one underwater led fixture.

[RidgeRunner]

Love the bling, love the do it yourself mindset. It sounds like something I want. Wonder if it could be mounted temporarily on a skiff for lobstering with a bully net?