Quote Originally Posted by shipahoy41 View Post
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.