Fishing Lights = Pirates Cove Drama

[michelle]

haha agreed. I got fussed at for "speeding in the canal". I was going 4.2 mph. Guess my big ol 17' bluewave was throwing to much of a wake! lol.

guess those twin verado 300s on your blue wave were a bit too much alex, you need to tone it down.
michelle

[Walker]

I would be out buying bigger lights about now.

[Walker]

Some big-*** underwater strobes - yeah - that's the ticket. I can play this game.

[nokatchin]

Some folks are habitual bitchers.they are never happy so everyone else feels their pain.fook em

[Robalo]

I got clotheslined by a neighbor's fishing line-they had cast from their deck across the canal and used about 1# of weights fishing on bottom-you couldn't see their line and it went right across my throat-they acted PO'd that I came down the canal from my dock. I explained that if they want to fish, they need to tend to their lines/poles, otherwise, they are gonna hurt some other folks-I did cut their GD line.

As far as lights, the folks across the canal have beotched about my 500 watt lights-screw em.

[JT]

my problem is that i somehow pizzed off the neighbor thats on the HOA. i get a letter a month from them on phantom violations...

robalo...you ought to take some round-up and go write "Eat Me" in their yard.

[Explorer21]

LOL!!! That is some funny crap! One time, I got a letter for the HOA about not edging the curb (I was out of town for two weeks), so I cut my grass that day and sent a letter back to them with some grass clippings

my problem is that i somehow pizzed off the neighbor thats on the HOA. i get a letter a month from them on phantom violations...

robalo...you ought to take some round-up and go write "Eat Me" in their yard.

[Robalo]

Fertilizer works well-causes the patch of writing you make with it to grow faster and green and takes awhile to show up!!!

[SUPER SPOOK]

wow,some people

[Oleander Kayaker]

LMAO

Reminds me of the swastika trees in Germany

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_swastika

Nevertheless, Palm Beach (beach side) between the Pirates, has no deed restrictions. One of the main reasons I built there.

Fertilizer works well-causes the patch of writing you make with it to grow faster and green and takes awhile to show up!!!

[yak attack]

So what is the rule of thumb for putting up fishing lights? I have a neighbor that has two 1000w or 500w mercury vapors across the canal that are so bright it is hard to watch TV at night without sunglasses. Besides asking him to turn them downward more, what else can I do? Hell, I have an extra underwater green light that I would give him if he took the big lights down.

[WestEndAngler]

Your not going to get anyone to take down a fishing light... You may get them or force them into a deed restriction that say they have to install a "shade" on their light. If there was a company that was around here that could do it I wouldn't be opposed to installing one. We've had ours up for 8 years and this is the first time someone has complained.

The underwater lights are a PITA yeah its cool to see the fish but they spook so easily out of there its more of a neighbor pleaser. If your ready to catch fish at night fish the stadium lights.

[Flat Crazee]

Compromise

Ok I will compromise, I will only turn on my 1000 watt stadium light at night. Truth is I'm very selective about when I use it, my neighbor across the canal on the other hand has "bright ' lights that are on a photocell. They are on even when no one is there, I just deal with it...but the next time I have mine on there better not be any complaints. Some things just come with the territory...

[Robalo]

Turn em downward when they're gone. I unplug my across canal neighbor's green light-his light attracts more fish than mine-not sure why, but they are rarely down, so I just motor over and unplug their light and fish move into mine. I figure I'm saving em $$.