Green underwater light from dock - worth it?

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They work great, they start attracting fish the first night. The color of the light does not matter, most the time the lens is clear and the sediment in the water makes it appear green. Clear is best because it does not restrict light, the color does not matter to the fish, but with all that being said, they are expensive (around $400-$500)

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does it really attract fish? from what i have read a light above water attracts bugs, which then attracts all its predators, up to the fish.

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House we are renting has a 300 foot pier with regular lights

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The submerged ones are fun to see the fish better and definitely work, but I've caught more from standard lights pointing down onto the water. Also seems to not spook the fish as much.

The fish learn that bait attacts to the lights, I have seen them heading for the light at dusk after the fish get a pattern.

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They work great, they start attracting fish the first night.

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This, I have one behind my house.

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The color of the light does not matter,

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I have to disagree on this point. I fish the ones in the canals of my subdivision and the green lights always have more fish.

Are those sacalait?

Yes de are

Dang...seeing them big ol perch like that...just waiting on a glow jig to hit the water...dammit boy!

To the OP question, they worked for me when I utilized one fishing for post-spawn/ summer pattern crappie in a deep clear lake that had good bites at first and last light and cloudy days and zero action when the sun got over head.

Back when I used to spider rig for those crappie at night, I needed a solution for having a submerged light sitting stationary where I could troll around it.

What I wound up doing is this: I took a magnum decoy and tied plenty of line to it with an anchor at the end. I cut the decoy open and placed one of those little power packs that turns 4 D batteries into a 12 volt system. I kept plenty of high quality rechargeable batteries on board to change them out when needed, or I'd use those larger amp hour rechargeable deer feeder batteries. Both options worked well and I probably could've used a bigger battery because the decoy would float it. Nonetheless, the green LED submersible light I had would run for a very long time- at least an hour and a half- on both types of batteries that I used.

About half and hour before dark I'd anchor the decoy down and then submerge the light below the decoy and fire it up, and voila: I had a stationary fishing light to fish around.

By the time the fish showed up i had gotten all my stuff ready for night fishing with spider rigs and would start mopping up pretty quickly. I had a hunch that night fishing was where it was at on this lake, and I was right; because I'd come out regularly with a limit of specks and a few white perch to boot. Even caught a 3 pounder one night.

The submersible green light didn't seem to work any better or worse than the white light I had, but the green was led and my white light was not and so it required more battery.

So long story not so short: yes, they've worked well for me with crappie.

Light fishing you have to fish in spurts, the fish scare off pretty easily in my experience. Fish for 20 mins then go back in the camp for a while, repeat.

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Green underwater light from dock - worth it?

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I thought I could add to this topic but it looks like you are going to find a 12 volt or some temporary 120 volt light. I'm a big believer in dock lights. I live on a lake in East Texas and have six separate lights off my dock. They range from 8000 to 80,000 lumens. They are expensive in retail but after popping one open, I've started to make my own at a third the cost. So an 80,000 lumen light is about $900. I can make it for a little more than $200. And my dock is very popular with fishermen. In warm months if I'm not down there fishing by sunset, I'll have to get in line.