night fishing lights

From reading the shore fishing reports, i see night fishing is best and im gonna try it this weekend. Whats the best light to use, let it be headlight, or lantern, or are any of those wind up lanterns any use ? Dont want to pay megabucks lads, but need to be good for a decent night session .

Headlamp is best in my opinion, you can pick them up cheap in big hardware stores , but you definatly pay for bettter quality and petzel, spelo and silva all make very good headlamps but most arent that cheap.

Head lamp is the best . Energiser 12.50 euro in tesco . Nice little torches would Defo recommend

I've been using the energizer head lamp for a while now and find it great for less than a tenner
comes with a set of batteries also
I have a wee lantern that I hang in my shelter and that was only a tenner also

anthony if ur paying 12.50 for those energizer headlites ur being robbed.lol.i got mine down ere for 8 euro.and every where else i seen was 8 euro. any way i wud also like anthony definitely recommend them

Head lamp is the best . Energiser 12.50 euro in tesco . Nice little torches would Defo recommend

They must have seen me coming . They are 22.50 in millets . Absolute robbery

I got my energiser head lamp from tesco in belfast for £4.99 a few months ago great for baiting up I also have the petzel ones they are good but a bit more expensive

yeah tesco's were getting rid of a few there..

would definitely go with a headlamp.. I also use a lantern at base camp aswell

Argos do great deals on lights. Buy a backup too.

Thanks lads for the tips. I got a cree headtorch on ebay. It has a zoom and a dim setting. With postage from hong kong its just over £6. I got a pm from a member on here who has used one for months and thinks they are great, but told me best to use rechargable batteries. I havnt had a chance to try it out on a fishing trip as its too bloody cold, but it works fine.

a tiplight is very handy saves the batteries in a headlight andwon't scare fish away

wee set of 3 tip lights in belfast angling center for about 7 quid. . .but dont get the ones that need to be whipped onto the rod!!!

a tiplight is very handy saves the batteries in a headlight andwon't scare fish away

I heard something counter to this recently,seemingly fish will be curious with things like lights,especially flatfish that love shiney things and attractor beads. But.... I was using a headlight and no tip light so maybe this is to blame for my near blank.

(Have tiplights now)

beware tip lights if you do use one always check no line has become tangled around it before you let rip with your lead,they have been known to remove a few inches from the top of peoples rods not nice

for the flatties, glow in the dark beads work well,

as for tip lights, i take mine off when casting. always worry about the batteries falling out as the battery cover isnt 100% in my view.

night fishing without tiplights
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come on guys all night angler need tiplights they are so cheap and effective

we used to use tip lights all the time until i loaded all our reels with braid. braid has an uncanny knack of wrapping round them if you get slack lined, the wind is howling or during a cast in windy conditions . we just put a bit of reflective tape on the top of all our rods now and the old headlight shows them up from a good distance away. another advantage of tape over tip lights is that if you have the tape on the top 18 inches of your rod you see a lot more of the bites as you can see the entire lenght of the tip of your rod as apposed to a single point at the top of the tip. well handy in windy conditions where there is a bit of movement in the rod
just my 2 cents from trial and error. i'm sure other lads have different opinions.
hope this helps

spotted these yesterday, handy if someone likes starlights and is getting a rebuild

http://www.uk-hooks.com/details.php?selected=813

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to late mousey , a few other options are isotopes which can last for 10 years, luminous epoxy resin and luminous low diameter shrink tubing on the rod tip or all 3 combined for the hook lighthouse effect

night fishing without tiplights
xmas morning without present
come on guys all night angler need tiplights they are so cheap and effective

sorry. all you need is reflective tape and a good head lamp dont waste time with tip lights