So far I'm satisfied with the money I spent to upgrade the lights.

Here's my report.

Jay came from Omega, Ga and met me in Tallahassee around 7.  I had only met Jay one other time at the Wildwood Bash 2007.  He stopped for a few minutes on his way to the beach with his family.   We hit the road and got to the ramp around 8.  Always wanting to try new areas, we made a 6 mile run to the first spot.  There was a little daylight left so we picked up the rods and fished for a few minutes.  Had a few topwater bites but the only fish to make it to the boat was a ladyfish and bluefish.  We hit the shoreline and turned on the lights.  The first stretch produced a mullet and a couple flounder.  Worked another spot and picked up 4-5 more flounder.  Around midnight we started working out way back towards the ramp and hit a spot that had 4 flounder.  1 ran on us, 1 was short and 2 went in the cooler.  Last spot of the night was our big producer.  Most fish came from 5 foot of water here.  Picked up 5 flounder and a pile of sheepshead.  Jay gigged one  flounder that was sitting on a rocky bottom and the jolt from the gig hitting the rock knocked his watch off in 5-6 feet of water.  Luckily the water was clear and we were able to retrieve it with the gig.  We had 3 legal flounder run on us as we were lowering the gig on them.  3 of the fish we gigged tried to run at the last minute making for a few body shots.  Getting late(early) and running out of room in the cooler, we headed back to the ramp and hit Tally around 5am.

Totals for the night include:

11 flounder, biggest being 2 pounds 12 ounces
14 sheephead, biggest being 3 pounds 13 ounces and had a couple more over 3#.
1 mullet
1 watch retrieved from 5 feet of water, still works
1 flashlight retrieved from 5 feet of water, still works
Saw around 30 short flounder.
Saw 3 gators, having a close encounter with one of them(8ft) that was on dry land about 30 feet from us.  Another one(8ft) that was 300 yards from any shoreline.
Numerous shrimp, at least a dozen slot reds, a couple trout and a bunch of sheephead that we didn't gig.

Short flounder

This guy had a couple 1" shrimp crawling on his back.

Another pic of him

This guy went home wore out with a cooler full of fish.



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Excellent report.

I am going to guess that because of the gators, there are not very many wade giggers in Florida ???

If that is true then Florida must be a great place to gig because around Galveston, waders out number boat giggers an easy 20 to 1 and lets face. Not every body can afford a boat. If we only had a bunch of gators to keep the hordes back from the shorelines at night I can only imagine what it might be like.

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All I know is I plugged in 3 lights at one time, let them warm for 1 minute and then plugged the other 3 in.  Generator never surged like it did before I installed the caps.

Before I installed the caps, I plugged the lights in one at a time, a minute apart, and on the 5th light the Honda 2000 tripped.

Honda EU2000i generator running 6 HPS 150 watt lights on a 18ft Dixon aluminum boat with a 31 godevil. Powered in the shallows by a 55# thrust Minn Kota.