I have personally never used them...they are suppose to draw bugs and baitfish and the Crappie are suppose to come and feed.
I have however, fished at our local Marina at night...which has lights that shine on the water, and have done really well!

 

I have seen them used with great success down on lake cumberland but have never seen them up here.

 

We have tried them at la due,it was a blast!!! We found ourselves forgetting we were fishing and spent half our time just watching all the fish coming into the green glow of light chasing baitfish!

 

birthday coming very soon, going to get a couple. don,t have a boat so going to use them off the end of dock at east fork. will give report. any fishing tips on theses light will be great.

 

I used one of the Optronic's clear lights last week and it worked fine. After about 10 minutes I caught a few fish and within a half hour I had numerous schools of shad? swimming in circles around the light. In about 3 hours I kept 15 decent crappies and probably 15 smaller ones. This was in a man made lake in Pa. but can't imagine Ohio would be any different.

 

yea; i,m looking forward to them. my cusin goes to cumberland 1 week a year and tears them up off a dock.

 

crappie fishing usa.com , has some great info on underfishing lights.

 

I always see a group of boats under cheshire bridge at alum creek useing them. They seem to be there everytime i go under the bridge at nite, so i would assume there getting fish!
Bobby

 

Was out tonight and fished till about 11:00. Kept around 30 decent ones. The bite was much faster than the last time I was out 2 weeks ago and the fish averaged a little bigger. Once the full moon got overhead a little about 10:15 bite really died.

Most of the nicer fish were on the bottom in 9 feet of water. Hung the light about 2 feet below the surface.

 

i was reading catfish-insider; of a big bridge in the states some where thats got underwater lights in the suport peirs. said it was realy good there. i recall just this morning a older man telling me as a kid they use to hang lanteren close to water surface.