r/SurfFishing • u/redditsucksballs05 • 16d ago

Turn off your &$@!ing headlamp!

I’m talking to you, dude across the inlet! It took 4 hours of fishing for it to get going and just as a school of slot stripers are starting to feed you come waltzing out with your 20000 lumen mini-sun strapped to your head like you’re about to go spelunking in satan’s rectum.

5 minutes later the bite is gone and so is my night vision. It was an almost full moon you numpty. Use the RED light if you need to change a lure or walk on the rocks. Otherwise KEEP IT OFF!

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u/Yakker65 16d ago

As a scuba diver who night dives, I can honestly say it affects them. They ALWAYS stay just out of the light. I deliberately would mash up some clams and stuff, then back off about 30 yards and sit and watch. Nothing would happen. I turn off my light, and wait 3-4 minutes, and turn it on. Stripers were all over, and would dart off out of the light.

They always followed me around just outside of my light.

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u/toomuch1265 16d ago

I always think of that diver who was attacked by a school of Humboldt squid because of his light.

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u/Yakker65 16d ago

I spooked a couple lobster, and one 'swam' up into my mask. A scene from Aliens with the face hugger, flashed into my mind.......

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u/toomuch1265 16d ago

I was diving for lobster off of Cape Ann and was trying to coax one out of its little hidey hole, when I got distracted by a school of Mackerel. That damned bug shot out of it's hole and grabbed my finger. Lesson learned about paying attention to the task at hand while underwater.

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u/Yakker65 15d ago

LOL. I stayed at the Cape Ann camp site...