Originally Posted by
olsaltydog
I'm gonna second OT, spent many years running at night and any light will ruin night vision let alone prevent anyone from seeing navigation lights. Will not recommend it and if you need light then only use one when out trolling or at a no wake speed, anything faster should have them off.
So if you are running faster than no wake on a river at night surrounded by timber, in the dark, how do you see the debris before hitting it? We have logs, sunken tree stumps, and all the other stuff I REALLY don't want to hit at that time of night. More times than night, we don't run into anyone while we are out, and if we do, they are running the same way as us. And if we are fishing at night, we are drift fishing and will cut on the nav lights if someone is beginning to get near us, not the bright running lights. I am going to have them on a separate system.