Need a Red headlamp with white option too...

[kevin2]

My Zebra lamps are great, but I fly fish at night, and the bugs swarm to me as soon as I turn on the lamp. I was reading that red lamps tend to not bring the flies/bugs in as much. NOT sure how true this is, but I'm willing to give a red lamp a try just the same! I need another headlamp anyways for one of my kids, so I'm looking to get a headlamp that has red and white options.

 

[Eagles1181]

Before you buy a new light you can test the theory by putting a red filter or red cellophane over the lens. That way when you buy a new headlamp you know if you really need the red light or not.

Eagle

 

[kevin2]

That is a good idea. I only go up north fishing one time per year, so it will be hard to reproduce the kind of bugs around here THAT we encounter during a hatch on the river. Thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of flies hatch sometimes & this is what I'm trying to guard against. I'm likely going to have to buy one, just the same.

Before you buy a new light you can test the theory by putting a red filter or red cellophane over the lens. That way when you buy a new headlamp you know if you really need the red light or not.

Eagle

 

[Woods Walker]

I never had good luck fishing for trout or bass at night with my fly rod or anything else for that matter. Dusk and dawn are good but often when it gets dark enough to use a headlamp I am either paddling or hiking back. What are you fishing for? Most headlamps with red 5mm LEDs options have strong white light (XP-G or whatever) but weak red output. I think there was a PT EOS that had a red filter solving this problem. Maybe a few other headlamps have a red filters as well.

 

[lightjunction]

Consider Nitecore's HC50 with red led option or HC90 which has red, blue, green...so you can see if any work better than the other at least. Obviously, the colored LED is not the primary, so I don't know your expectations for seeing too far out, but these wouldn't put off a great deal of light. Just enough to keep you from falling!
-Jeff

 

[cland72]

Check out the Princeton Tec Remix headlamp. Starts in red, then goes to white.

 

[D6859]

I have Xtar H1 and Fenix HL30 which both have red and white light. White light in Xtar is more focused and the red is brighter (or maybe it's just more focused too) than in Fenix. Fenix has better runtime since it's 2AA and it has been updated, was it this year? You can use both AA and 14500 in Xtar, but for example Keeppowers were too long for it. I've read about Xtar sending new tailcaps for dealers but I don't know if they've fixed the problem in their product and if there's a way to know if you're byuing the fixed one.

 

[GatorMedic]

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