Thread: Made my first glow in the dark lures

ctom do they make glow-in-the-dark glitter.

Originally Posted by CTom

Couple things here Ship.....

If you are doing the regular glow...that eerie green....get good pigments and you'll not regret it. You'll use less to get more zap and the better the pigment the longer the glow time.

Another trick. Try mixing up a small batch of clear with some glow. By small, I mean like an ounce of plastic and enough glow to show well. Open your mold of choice and using a small bamboo shish-kabob skewer, dip the blunt end in your hot plastic just far enough to pick up a drop of it and tap that drop into the cavity where you think it will show well when on a jig. Do three or four drops in the cavity on a 2" plastic. The area around the head and where the eyes would be on a minnow are good places to apply these. Once you have the drops where you want them just close and clamp the mold and shoot as per usual except shoot it slower so you don't dislodge the dots.

When you fish a bait dolled up like this, you are offering a smaller area of glow and the fish will not see the "aura" that glows tend to cast in the water around a bait of solid glow plastic. Instead there are just little points of light that get the fish's attention. Very often baits done like this do better than baits with a lot of glow surface.

In molds that shoot a top and bottom I like to run 4 dots thru the belly section at the deepest point of the belly cavity.

try a few done up like this and see how they work for you. This trick will save you a lot of plastic and a lot of pigment.

Another world is opening up with ideas to really try. Do you have a picture of this? I am so glad I did not use regular powder paint that you use for jig heads which was what I thought of doing first. It pays to ask good people on c.com who have been there and done it correctly before you. I owe a lot of thanks to my friends on the jig tying forum and the DIY Plastics forum for all of their help. I appreciate you. Now, having said all of that, some crappies might not be so appreciative because they know Old ship will be looking for them real soon.

Originally Posted by snake River

Mike you can do the same thing as I did by just adding green to the glow power and you can get it at lure craft.

I'm thinking this is a yes, or a maybe yes. Let me dig a bit and I'll get back .

Originally Posted by CTom

I'm thinking this is a yes, or a maybe yes. Let me dig a bit and I'll get back .

this should be interesting if they can do this you can add the glitter to quite a few different plastic baits as long as it was transparent colors I was wondering if you can buy the little stars that you buy in the store to put on your ceiling if you can put them in the belly and if they would work I guess there are quite a few different glow-in-the-dark things out there that you can probably use I was always wondering about using the little lights come on when you shake a toy or something like a pair of shoes tennis shoes has anybody tried these little guys out yet it would be awesome to make up a plastic bait each time you jerk it the light would come on there is another one for you to look upon ctom I guess I'll have to do some digging of my own I definitely would like to make something up like that I still think that would be awesome.

Bob I thought I saw some glow glitter a while ago but I can't locate where now.

The stars you mention....they may not hold up to the heat but then the plastic shot into molds doesn't stay too hot too long so you may be able to do something like that. Lots of those electrical components probably aren't going to stand up to the heat. On a similar note, there was a fella three years ago at the St. Paul Ice Show here in Minnesota the has a jig that would light up when immersed in water. I have one of them yet and the darned thing works yet. I've never fished one, but they are different. Take it out of water for a minute or so and the light goes out. The down side of the jig is that a 1/8 ouncer like I have is as big as a 1/2 ounce leadhead. The light is located near the collar of the jig. Mine is a red.

Originally Posted by CTom

Bob I thought I saw some glow glitter a while ago but I can't locate where now.

The stars you mention....they may not hold up to the heat but then the plastic shot into molds doesn't stay too hot too long so you may be able to do something like that. Lots of those electrical components probably aren't going to stand up to the heat. On a similar note, there was a fella three years ago at the St. Paul Ice Show here in Minnesota the has a jig that would light up when immersed in water. I have one of them yet and the darned thing works yet. I've never fished one, but they are different. Take it out of water for a minute or so and the light goes out. The down side of the jig is that a 1/8 ouncer like I have is as big as a 1/2 ounce leadhead. The light is located near the collar of the jig. Mine is a red.

I have not been looking for it glow-in-the-dark glitter guys we just ordered glow-in-the-dark powder from this company I ordered six different colors for 60 some dollars.
Glow in the dark powder and Glow in the Dark Paint, Strontium aluminate
I will let you know more about this company in their powders when I get them meantime we are using lure craft: glow-in-the-dark powders for right now.

Originally Posted by snake River

don't tell anybody but that is what we use today to make up some plastic baits we use florescent blue with the good old icky glow powder that we bought from lure craft no I did not taking the pictures in the dark but here is a picture of what they look like with the glow-in-the-dark powder in them.Attachment 111572

Those look super after charging them with a UV light Bob.

Originally Posted by shipahoy41

Those look super after charging them with a UV light Bob.

Mike you should see the red in the dark.