I have been flounder gigging by wadding for a while now; I just attach a rope to my kayak and my belt and wade along. It works really well!
If you can paddle to the flat by kayak, I much rather it over a john boat and flounder gigging.
That being said, Sometimes you want to get out of the water or you want to cross to the other side of the channel and its a little too deep. Thus a light setup for a kayak so that I could pole my kayak would be awesome in certain situations. Why I need yalls help…
I have been using a PVC hand held two headed LED light for walking and wading and gigging. It works really great and runs off little to no power FOREVER. 8 double AA batteries 4 to 6 hours of wadding time and never had to change the batteries.
I just found out how I can now make my own. I want to incorporate the LED lights like the ones used on the walking stick. To be placed on the side of my kayak to light up the entire area around it.
How should I do the PVC? Any ways yall could think of that would keep the light water proof but also allow it to be on a swivel or pivot to allow the position of the lights to be changed? My number one cant figure it out on my own issue. Atlease that makes sure to keep the light waterproof…
I came up with the idea last year when I had a gig break and I had to hand stick flounder while floating in my kayak and the light hanging off the side over my legs. Yes, I notched a couple holes into my man-belt that night.
Any advice would be very much appreciated on light set up configuration and how best I should point them, what wattage and lumens I should want to be producing together or per light…? Really any and all advice u can give me would be greatly appreciated…
I plan to vary my lights with a pattern of lens that are a 90 degrees that throw a wide angles light, to a lens of 30 or 45 degrees that have a more focused “spotlight” approach. With them alternating to give you a pattern of a wide angled focused light to then a focused “spotlight angled light”