You will be surprised how well you can see at night. The one thing I like about some of my favorite night fishing lakes is there are area's where I used to put in, drop the trolling motor and then pull the trolling motor back up where I started at the end of the night and never even ran the big motor. A few things I realized when fishing all through the 90's on lakes like Fork, Bob Sandlin and Cedar Creek is that I had better results when looking back on the logs I used to keep on moonless dark nights compared to fishing the full moon and on lakes with lots of docks like Cedar Creek I caught more fish on unlighted docks than on docks with lights. Those go against what I always thought but what my record keeping showed.