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Any past discussions or current thought on leaving the lights on to promote night feeding?
I've got a quarter acre trout pond, with some elevated lamps on the shore. Would the night light perhaps better illuminate forage, pellets, etc? Or attract insect life?
I know that Brown trout are active night feeders. Don't know about the brookies and rainbows.
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I use some lights out over the water. It works pretty well.
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I put up Christmas lights around the little ponds each May or June. I buy the lights right after Christmas because they're about a dime a million.
I do this to increase the contrast for late, late pellet feeders. It helps decrease waste and has worked great for yellow perch last summer.
Holding a redear sunfish is like running with scissors.
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Only downside I see is you may attract predator birds. I now know for a fact that Great Blue Herons will feed at night during a full moon or close to a full moon. I had one standing on top of one of my cages a few weeks ago about 3:30 A.M that I had not put a cover on yet. 
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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too bad that cage didnt have a few conibear traps accidently laying on top loaded.
A little snow, Please! 
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Originally posted by Cecil Baird1:
Only downside I see is you may attract predator birds. I now know for a fact that Great Blue Herons will feed at night during a full moon or close to a full moon. That's why I was thinking about submersible lighting. It could be mounted far from the ponds edge so wading birds wouldn't have access.
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Originally posted by trialsguy:
too bad that cage didnt have a few conibear traps accidently laying on top loaded. :D Only problem is it could upset the neighbors and I could be a in a heep of troule. All my cages have bird proof covers now. No worry about the fish in the cages now.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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Originally posted by dam yankee: Originally posted by Cecil Baird1:
Only downside I see is you may attract predator birds. I now know for a fact that Great Blue Herons will feed at night during a full moon or close to a full moon. Sounds fine then.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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