Anybody have any experience using these lights?
I’m thinking about buying one.
Thanks for any info!
If you don’t want to invest in a generator and 400w sodium halogen, the Hydroglow is the next best thing. It does a great job of getting bait around the boat, especially when the herring are shallow. Many a morning this time of the year, I can get out an hour and a half before daylight and catch more than enough bait for a day’s fishing. At just a couple hundred bucks, mine has paid for itself a 100 times over. Therefore, my advice is to go for it!
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I fish almost exclusively at night and I love the hydroglow. Really pulls a lot of bait and keeps the fish under the boat. Smaller fish always come from the side with the light and the bigger fish come from the side without the light. Even when the water gets too warm and the herring are deep, you can see them stack up on the fish finder. Here is a video I took 4/23 of the bait in the light.
http://s16.photobucket.com/albums/b39/crawlerman2/?action=view¤t=2012-04-21_22-06-06_565.mp4
They are durable, light weight, definitely will attract the baitfish…I had one for about 3-4 years and then it disappeared from my garage. I either let someone borrow it or I left it somewhere. All I know ,its gone now…lol… Search for some youtube videos of anglers fishing with hydroglow lights. See how their use in the videos compares with what you’d like to accomplish… If you want to use hydroglow lights to catch big stripers, surely there must be a video of it… I prefer to use them in areas that already have a decent amount of ambient light… marinas, bridges,dams, well lit shorelines…
I’ve spent about 85% of my life’s wages on fishing, the rest I just wasted…
The striper rarely come into the light. They hang below coming into the bottom of the bait ball. I got these 4 under my hydroglow and let go a bunch of keepers because I didn’t want to limit out. All the fish that night were 23 to 28 inches and stayed under my boat till I quit at 3AM.
Nice video Tom, looks like some nice size herring balled up there… When you draw in the threads, they generally circle the light in tornadic fashion…Gizzard shad will also come to the light but they cruise thru quickly, in and out of it. If you use a sabiki rig to jig up the herring, use a 2 oz bucktail for the weight instead of a pyramid sinker and you may jig up a Striper instead…lol. I’ve spent many hours fishing for Striper under lights in a marina from a houseboat on Lake Lanier…Though we used the hydroglow at times, we had equal success using a halogen work lamp plugged in to the shore power the hung off the dock, pointing down in the water…I’ve even watched Striper, Largemouth, and Spotted Bass stalk and feed under the light… I caught two fish over 30 lbs doing this but both of those were caught just before daybreak as the bait was beginning to scatter. When the bait catching is easy, the bites are harder to come by… When the baits were harder to catch, the bite was usually quick if you finally got one… My results using lights out on the main lake to catch Stripers has not been nearly as successful…
I’ve spent about 85% of my life’s wages on fishing, the rest I just wasted…
Woody, Caught these in the hydroglow light last Friday. Biggest two were 29" and 26".
By the way…Hydro Glow (Darrell Keith) has introduced a line of super-bright LED lights that take even less power to operate. I maintain the Hydro Glow web site…www.hydroglow.com
Jim Goller