I have a center console bay boat and looking for ideas on mounting lights so they are out of the way while shrimping. If anybody has pictures of their setup, I would love to see them!
I am new to this forum but and fairly new to shrimping. I have been in it for 2yrs now and last year I broke down and bought real poles from newberry and took the caps off and placed clear pvc on top and put a cap on it and used green coleman light sticks and yellow, we alternated colors. This worked great to see poles and we had a led light flush mount on the front of the console of his cc boat to see shrimp.
I made this up to navigate at night while chasing docklight trout but they came in pretty handy last year during shrimping season. They came from West Marine, compliments of capnsandbar and the frame is good old PVC.
“The good fisherman is surprised when he doesn’t catch fish: I am just the other way around.”
Gene Hill, Passing a Good Time.
Does it have a lid? If so, just attach lighting to the ttop posts.Good luck!
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Originally posted by Citadel1999I have a center console bay boat and looking for ideas on mounting lights so they are out of the way while shrimping. If anybody has pictures of their setup, I would love to see them!
I just use a cheap 12v flood light with the metal reflector mounted to a 10’ pvc pole. I stick the pole in a rod holder that is mounted vertically on my center console. It can swing a bit during rough seas so I bungie cord it to the hand hold. Total cost about $7 and works great.