  We discuss the possibility of observing doubly charged Higgs bosons in
$\gamma \gamma$ collisions. We find that one can increase the range of
observability close to the kinematic limit by a judicious choice of the
polarisations of the initial $e^-/ e^+$ beams as well as the initial laser beam
photons which are made to back-scatter from the former. We also note that, in a
large region of parameter space, the generally used lepton number violating
decay mode is dominated by the decay into a singly charged Higgs and a real or
virtual $W$-boson, giving rise to a large number of fermions in the final
state. This can qualitatively alter the strategy for discovering doubly-charged
scalars.
