TigerhawkT3
Flashlight Enthusiast
Yesterday, my buddies invited me to go night fishing, and my response was basically "meh." They later called to ask if I wanted to have dinner with them at KFC before they went fishing, and I agreed to drive.
Long story short, it turns out that they thought I was agreeing to have dinner AND go fishing with them (an hour away), so I did. They said we'd be back at around 10:30-11:00 pm, which isn't too bad.
I ended up getting back home at around two in the morning. One person in our group of three wanted to keep fishing... and fishing... But we eventually convinced him to start packing up so we could get home.
I didn't think I'd be going fishing, so I only had my EDC of a P1, Pierce M10, and Gladius / FM34, which isn't quite runtime-oriented. Luckily, the Gladius has variable brightness, so I mostly used that. Whenever someone needed to pick out a chunk of bait, thread a hook, et cetera, they'd say "David, light!"
There were other anglers at the pier, and they had lights as well, of course. One had an Ace HW 2D incan and a little LED light that likely ran on button cells. Another group had a fluorescent lantern and a multi-LED 1AA light. It was kind of fun to walk up to these non-flashaholics trying to make do with a few lumens of orange or blue light and "help them out a bit" with my M10. Any one of my lights could turn an entire work area into daytime.
I kept on lamenting that I "only" had three lights. If I'd known I was fishing, I would have brought my Dorcy 3W lantern, SMJLED PR2 in a 2D host, and some headlights. In fact, my last real-world experience convinced me to buy more headlights for the exact purpose of providing everyone in my party with a hands-free utility light. Still, the lights I had served quite well.
We caught some fish, too.
Long story short, it turns out that they thought I was agreeing to have dinner AND go fishing with them (an hour away), so I did. They said we'd be back at around 10:30-11:00 pm, which isn't too bad.
I ended up getting back home at around two in the morning. One person in our group of three wanted to keep fishing... and fishing... But we eventually convinced him to start packing up so we could get home.
I didn't think I'd be going fishing, so I only had my EDC of a P1, Pierce M10, and Gladius / FM34, which isn't quite runtime-oriented. Luckily, the Gladius has variable brightness, so I mostly used that. Whenever someone needed to pick out a chunk of bait, thread a hook, et cetera, they'd say "David, light!"
There were other anglers at the pier, and they had lights as well, of course. One had an Ace HW 2D incan and a little LED light that likely ran on button cells. Another group had a fluorescent lantern and a multi-LED 1AA light. It was kind of fun to walk up to these non-flashaholics trying to make do with a few lumens of orange or blue light and "help them out a bit" with my M10. Any one of my lights could turn an entire work area into daytime.
I kept on lamenting that I "only" had three lights. If I'd known I was fishing, I would have brought my Dorcy 3W lantern, SMJLED PR2 in a 2D host, and some headlights. In fact, my last real-world experience convinced me to buy more headlights for the exact purpose of providing everyone in my party with a hands-free utility light. Still, the lights I had served quite well.
We caught some fish, too.