Papacon357 Loc: West Texas (Permian Basin)

As long as you have the required lights you can add pretty near any others as long as they are not red and blue flashers.

Oldfisherguy Loc: NE Kansas

One black light will make retying gear breeze. Mono under black light shines like a rope!!

kandydisbar Loc: West Orange, NJ

In sailing green goes on the right and red on left so you know whether you're coming or going, lol!

Rheatown Loc: Greeneville tn

Looks like the laws there are same or close to Tennessee I have the exact same set up in my boat and love it the green still get your night vision for a minute but not bad they work good to see but I don’t leave them on much just because of bugs and green is just fine a lot of companies put them on from factory prodigy for example does that and the light bar on front works well also here the rule is it can’t affect others vision so as long as you don’t just leave it on while running around other boats I’d say you’ll be ok with it I’d say there you’d need some kind of lights to keep an eye out for gators hahaha

Rheatown Loc: Greeneville tn

If you’re wanting a light to fish with check out the moonlite that’s what we all use here they work great and come in two different sizes full and half moon you just wire up a couple jacks wherever you want to use it can just move it side to side or front to back

Stilltrying Loc: FTW-Tx

For night fishing use a color that won’t attract bugs
I fish at night, anchored or tied off,
Turn off green/red running lights, leave white light on and have a yellow led in boat for fishing activities. Very few bugs that way.
I drop green led drop light in the water.
Be safe out there at night.

Rheatown Loc: Greeneville tn

Good deal I’ll try that for sure I didn’t know one color was better than another for that sometimes here them dang skeeters will eat you up no matter what you try

Fredfish Loc: Prospect CT.

Back in the days before LEDs, I used small amber trailer side lights, under the gunnels, to illuminate my cockpit. NO bugs!

Grandpa Knows How Loc: OC, California

State Boating Regulation clearly state the lighting requirements. As far as I know, they are the same in all 50 states and globally. Usually a boat at anchor has a different lighting configuration and you might well consider yourself at anchor if only drifting 1 mph.

If installing inboard lighting, Blue/Green is standard aviation color to preserve night vision.
My one suggestion would be to unsure you connect a rheostate to control the light intensity to the lowest level needed for conditions.

I do lots of night fishing.
I've always wished I'd installed a rheostat on my instrument console. As it is I end up covering it with a towel.
Really don't know why boats are made with a rheostat installed at manufacturing.

Chuck56 Loc: Texas

Not sure about deck lighting colors , but just make sure it doesn’t interfere with the red ( port side , left ) and green ( starboard side , right ) Navigation light visibility . My grandson got stopped by a game warden out by Sabine pass ( Texas ) because the bulb that lighted the red lens was blown . It was dark and he / his buddy were fishing for specks under the lights at golden pass LNG docks . No citation , but the wardens will check . Especially in the ship channels . If you are gonna be on a lake , I don’t believe you would be checked as often , because most of the time the wardens come to the launch , check livewells / licenses , shoot the bull a minute , then leave .

Douglasdzaster Loc: Smithville Texas

I never thought of black lights. I’ve changed the green to blue since I haven’t installed yet.

Whitey Loc: Southeast ohio

In the State of Ohio you had better not use red or blue for any vehicle regardless of flashing or not.

Douglasdzaster Loc: Smithville Texas

I hope I’ll be ok here in Texas. I was trying to avoid any nav light colors red or green.

Douglasdzaster Loc: Smithville Texas

Instead of running a strip down each side I’m only running one under the gunnel on the starboard side. It’s as long as the boat and my floor plan is open so it should be plenty for use to see in the boat. If it’s to bright I can wire in a dimmer switch.

Douglasdzaster Loc: Smithville Texas

I’ve been boarded twice in my life time for safety checks and that’s it. I haven’t seen a law enforcement boat of any kind while on the lakes around hear. I wish they’d patrol Fayette county. It gets crowded with bass boats and they don’t seem to care for someone catfishing out of a Jon boat. I get buzzed by and rocked pretty hard when they had plenty of room to give me my space. And I’m fishing out of a 16’ extra deep and wide it takes a bit to rock me around that hard. I said something about it in the office one day when I was leaving and they told me they get complaints all the time about the big bass boaters being rude. I used to have a 21’ Triton and ran the lakes and fished all day but we where always respectful of other boaters. Especially some one anchored trying to fish. I figure though the first place I’ll eventually get checked is Lake Somerville because it’s pretty popular but I don’t go on weekends much. That’s where I do my drift fishing. Just got a report today the white bass are running good and so are the stripers on Somerville. I’m almost ready to put the boat in the water and have to stop to work on my wife’s car.