Head Lights on Boats

[CTFSHWHISKER]

there really needs to be a "repeat thread" button on here somewhere,would save a lot of typing on the "lights" and "quit keeping" bass threads..kinda like the ol smoke em if ya got em saying..if you got a big brite light shine if it makes ya happy.just don't shine on me while i'm fishing 100 yards away from you running,you can't see a log if your seeing what color shirt i have on..
and i think the tug boats use the big lights mainly to find their markers like you see on the bank of the ohio and ky lake..

[sglass]

I have a good example about lights after dark. If anyone on this board fishes Herrington after dark then you use some sort of light after dark at some point in the year. The lake can be clean as a babys bottom during the day but when the traffic slows down at night most bends clog up with ALOT of floters this is very true in the late spring/early summer when the lake rises. One night at Herrington my uncle and I were runnung back to the dock not going that fast at all when all of the sudden WHACK!! We struck a large drum that was floating half under the water. If we had our lights on we would have seen it but we didnt since we were im eyesight of the launch and thought we "knew the lake like the back of our hand". Point being if I have to use my lights to navigate at night I will every time. If I have another boat approaching then I flick them off. They are not that bad if you use common sense with them. I have seen too many bad pictures where someone strikes something with their lower unit and it destroys their motor or busts the hull like an egg.

[RANGER519]

I have used lights on my boats for 25 or 30 years & have never been stopped for using them i don't leave them on all the time flash them on every so often.I run just fast enough to keep my boat on plane after dark.I use them to see if anything is in front of me in the water logs,buoys,boats with no lights on etc.. I'll keep using them i'd rather pay the fine than get someone hurt or tear my boat up.

just my 2 cents worth
ranger519