I am up here in Minnesota and I have been shooting glow plastics for ice fishing. My recipe has been real simple, even after trying a couple different plastics. Bears and Caney plastic recipes out the same so here it is.

4 oz plastic, soft formula
12 drops of stabilizer
1/2 - 3/4 tsp glow pigment, depending on the glow color

The pigments I am using glow in color, meaning glow purple glows purple even if the pigment and plastic show up a white to the eye. The glow green makes the plastic look a thin, milky green but glows an un-real bright green while the glow red turns the plastic a watered down orangish-pink but shows up red hot red when charged. Hit them with some direct sunlight or give them a pop from a camera flash and things sure take a turn from some drab colors to eye. Man these are bright when charged. Crappies and panfish love the plastics done in these colors. Perch are all over the glow red.

I have used a glow pigment from a specialty place for a number of years to use with my jig paints and it has served me best in pure pigment form so it was only a natural to try in the plastic. The three colors I mentioned have been my mainstays in the glow stuff eventhough I have four or five other colors I could do, so I am going to stick with the 3 for now.

The glow red and glow purple pigments are flour-fine and consolidate with the plastic real nice and don't seem to settle terribly fast, but I do take a second to give the plastic a quick stir before filling the injector each shot. Being a little grainier and denser than the other colors, the green likes to find bottom fairly fast so a stir before each injector filling is imperative.

I haven't been able to see where this pigment has weakened the plastic any. I am using the soft formula and adding only enough stabilizer to keep the plastic from scortching because of the pigment load. They still are very soft, yet very stretchy and the tail's action is still something else.

I shot about 250 of each color late yesrday as a trial run and after plucking the baits from the core laid them out to cure up a bit on a tray. I did this while watching the boob tube. The wife was shutting stuff off before coming to bed and was gone for quite a while so I went to see what was holding her up and here she was looking at that tray of plastics, glowing away in the dark of the room. lol Like a child. lol I have to say, that was certainly an impressive site....an sea of multi-colored sperm look-alikes glowing in the dark. Mission accomplished is all I said. I'm going to try and get a pic of that tray tonight.