Thread: glow plastics

Wow....the topic kind of took off here.

First, yes I sell the ones I am refering to and will try to post a pic tomorrow showing some....can't promise those in the glow colors other than on a tray in daylight. I am working at getting a glow shot done tonight but my digital camera skills leave a whole lot to be desired so don't stay up late waiting. lol

The glow pigments I order come from glowinc.com . They sell a variety of glow products but you will want to focus on the powder, or dry, pigments. And no, they are not cheap. I purchased 4 oz each of the purple and green and 1 oz of the red for doing some plastics, not being certain how much was going to be needed in each batch per color. I paid almost $300.00 for those three colors in those quantities. I have several colors of the pigments in small quatities that I use in painting jigs that I sell on my website. The three colors I have used in the plastics are the most common colors being asked for by ice anglers.

I think I saw a question asking whether these glow colors work and the answer is a very pointed yes. The glow red under the ice is maybe one of the most aggressive fish catching colors we here in the north have come across in the last few years. The glow green I have is called Ultra Green Glow and has a charged life of hours, not "an" hour. It is by far the brighest green glow I have ever seen. The purple glow is unique in that it is closer to the end of the spectrum where uv is located. UV we cannot see, but fish can. The glow purple fits in when glow red seems to fall on its nose. Glow purple gets more of my attention in open water and ice fishing than any of the other glow colors. I think that the fish react to these colors simply because they don't have colors like this at depths the fish lay in when its cold and they are lethargic. Glow in color plastics simply tear the crappies and sunfish up here in the north as do the jigs painted with glow in color paints.

People can feel free to pm me regarding the plastics I have. I'm not sure what the policy for the site is about mentioning too much so pm's will work for me.

Looked at the web site and didn't find it. Can you post a link to what you are using?

Originally Posted by snake River

yes they are available in the above picture are on the website.

Bob, those will also work in deep water presentations for soft water fishing. They are not just for hard water anymore.

Originally Posted by crappieslab

Looked at the web site and didn't find it. Can you post a link to what you are using?

Glow in the Dark look to the left, second iten from the top....glow powder.

Originally Posted by shipahoy41

Bob, those will also work in deep water presentations for soft water fishing. They are not just for hard water anymore.

Ship is right. I have some two inch curl tail grubs in glow white and they work great on the crappie in these stained southern waters.

Originally Posted by CTom

Wow....the topic kind of took off here.

First, yes I sell the ones I am refering to and will try to post a pic tomorrow showing some....can't promise those in the glow colors other than on a tray in daylight. I am working at getting a glow shot done tonight but my digital camera skills leave a whole lot to be desired so don't stay up late waiting. lol

The glow pigments I order come from glowinc.com . They sell a variety of glow products but you will want to focus on the powder, or dry, pigments. And no, they are not cheap. I purchased 4 oz each of the purple and green and 1 oz of the red for doing some plastics, not being certain how much was going to be needed in each batch per color. I paid almost $300.00 for those three colors in those quantities. I have several colors of the pigments in small quatities that I use in painting jigs that I sell on my website. The three colors I have used in the plastics are the most common colors being asked for by ice anglers.

I think I saw a question asking whether these glow colors work and the answer is a very pointed yes. The glow red under the ice is maybe one of the most aggressive fish catching colors we here in the north have come across in the last few years. The glow green I have is called Ultra Green Glow and has a charged life of hours, not "an" hour. It is by far the brighest green glow I have ever seen. The purple glow is unique in that it is closer to the end of the spectrum where uv is located. UV we cannot see, but fish can. The glow purple fits in when glow red seems to fall on its nose. Glow purple gets more of my attention in open water and ice fishing than any of the other glow colors. I think that the fish react to these colors simply because they don't have colors like this at depths the fish lay in when its cold and they are lethargic. Glow in color plastics simply tear the crappies and sunfish up here in the north as do the jigs painted with glow in color paints.

People can feel free to pm me regarding the plastics I have. I'm not sure what the policy for the site is about mentioning too much so pm's will work for me.

but apparently the pigment that you are getting from this place is a lot better than what we can get from our local suppliers your stating that it shows or glow longer which would make yours a lot better in the long run so I definitely would stick with the pigment that you are getting though it may cost a lot more but it may be more effective in the long run and thank you for definitely sharing with this post you definitely put a lot of good information for us guys to read in we all appreciate it.

Originally Posted by shipahoy41

Bob, those will also work in deep water presentations for soft water fishing. They are not just for hard water anymore.

they have been using glow colors a long time for saltwater fishing is we started buying plastic skirts many years ago from a company in Seattle Washington that made a small 1 inch in my other one inch and a half these were made out with a florescent head and a glow tale but the skirts were terribly hard body I mean you could fish with them all day in the fish could not destroy very tough material or plastic they are no longer available I had a few left a while back they were very popular when we had them but they were very expensive for resale I believe that glow colors have been used for many years for freshwater fishing such as for salmon and steelhead in the Northwest it didn't come about until later on they started to use it in freshwater or I should say pan fishing I would like to mention about the colors red penetrates in water very deep is fish can see red a lot better in to make it with a glow would make it a lot better uv colors are very effective so if you guys get a chance to use them do so I do have some more powder painting and uv I had never used it to make up anything yet but I definitely like this post because it points out a lot of things that are very important to the industry besides the fishery or fisherman that use glow colors in the past I have worked with a major manufacture developing pigment colors for steelhead and salmon fishermen I will tell you a little secret in case you guys are interested in obtaining blades such issue walleye fisherman and the guys that use small blades for pan fishing we were using a high industrial paint that was used for instrument panels in aircraft this paint is very expensive but the unique thing about this stuff is it does not fade and sunlight and it will take a pounding this is a baked on finish or I should say the material that we were using was baked on on not so sure that powder paint would do the same thing is we did not have this available back when I was working with this company so the industry has changed a lot over the years since powder painting, board I still use a lot of vinyl paint to work with though it may be very smelly to work with for some people but I put forward over others such as powder but we use a combination of powder and vinyl to gather we like to paint the eyes with vinyl over powder paint with a certain reason that vinyl paint does a excellent job making eyes now that I got kind away from the plastics here but I did want to pass on that information in case you are working with jig heads for using with plastic baits the good thing about using vinyl and powder paints that it works good with plastics.

Do they sell it by weight or fluid ounces?