Ok i went last night and i'm forken hooked!! I know they have had pics and shit posted before.. I want to build a deck that has everthing attached to it so i can pull it off in 5 minutes or so.. Gonna order alum. tomorrow and hope to be shooting shit in the face by the weekend LOL!!! Gonna run 6-8 light allready got those picked out!! Got 4500 generator so that is allready done also!! Got a good idea on how to build it but some more ideas or welcome to help out.. Slambin its goona be dam like yours.. Think i'm gonna make it a 4'x6' deck.. So show me some pics!! I will post pics of my shoot tomorrow..

Not sure if you are hell bent on an actual deck or just something to hold the lights. I shoot standing on my bow. I can shoot 2 people up there with no problem. There are pics in this album of what i use.

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No realy y\There is a bunch of pic's if u just google search images of bow fishing boats. Hope it helps.

It only takes me a minute to bolt mine on

what are some good lights that dont break the bank.. We had 4 the other night and they was some from lowes kinda like what slambin has.. I gonna put 6 on my deck!! They are gonna be 500 watt

I'm running 8 of the cheap Lowes work lights on my boat. I have 500 watt bulbs in the 2 rear lights, and 300 watt bulbs in the rest. Run it all on a 3000 watt Pep Boys genny. It's been working great for me for 2 years now.

If I remember correctly, i think they were around 8 dollars a piece.

Thats why i went with them. I'll try to find the exact ones I have and post them up.

Well, looks like they went up a bit since I bought them. $9.98 a piece now.



All I did was buy 300 watt bulbs to lower my bower usage to match my genny.

Terry I bought the lowes cheap ones 3 years ago and they are going strong still. Oh, and you should shoot off my deck, I run 13 of them.

i run all 500 watt lights with a 5500 watt generator. im like everyone else on the cheap lights. ive also learned that if you keep a few broken extras you can exchange parts in them and save a few bucks. im getting real close to having all red utilitech lights. im down to one black one and a yellow one now.

Hey terry i am the same way, i went one time and i am elbow deep in it now, i get my boat back Friday from Camo-Designs and i am bringing it straight to The guy that built my boat and he's going to build me a light bar that holds 6 lights and i'll use my existing deck to hunt off of. I'll get some pics up as soon as i am done! Bowfishing is the shizit!

Thanks fellers i will build mine this week as well!! All i needed was a nother hobby!!

Yep. 1 U bolt thru each grab handle. Holds it fine. I trailer it on the highway and everything.

You get what you pay for with the lowes special's
the biggest problem that i found with the el cheapos is the reflective shields are dimpled which reduces the amount of light out put, plus they are only water resistant to small amounts of water

on my both my new and old setup i ran 5 - 500 watt Halogens - the old set up consisted of 5 lowes specials, my new stup has 500 watt outdoor lights ment to be put on barns or buildings, much much more light

here are some pics of my set up:

remove trolling motor and four other bolts and it picks right off the boat

Not only did i get my light they were on sale for 6.99 apiece!!! Got me 8 and slambin they all red !!!

Ima go pick me some up for my setup on my 7 off. probably be done with the whole thing in a couple of days.
i can't wait, ima put 2 500 watts up front and 4 300 watts on the sides. should be all i need for now, want to see if i am really going to get into it before i dump a whole lot of money, Then i'll upgrade to the HPS lights Should be a fun little project with awesome results!

4500 ought to be more than enough, but i think my 3000I will be super quiet, thing is electric start and all can run 2 nights full of gas. I can't wait to start sticking some fish!

LA Mudder i like to know were you did buy them lights you have on your bow fishing deck , they look like they are a little more durable then the the cheap lowes lights .

Keep an eye out and when the bigheads get up and the water is right I will take you guys out if you wanna shoot some monster bighead carp. We shoot bigheads up to the seventy pound range during the summer.
Randy

50 square ft

DDM you get done with your deck? got any pics?