Glow in the dark jigs

[Micropterus salmoides]

Haha, no Skip, i am not interested in your secret formula for the Krabby Patty. BTW - If a guy named Plankton shows up at your door one day, lock that formula away in the vault and kick him out of the Krusty Krab!!!

HAAAA!!
I always feel sorry for Plankton.
Excellent life lessons from a terrible kids show.

Adam

[snake River]

we have been using glow jigs for a long time. They work pretty well. Just before it gets too dark to fish and also like skip has said in daylight hours they work especially well if you're fishing deep we prefer not to use color in the pigment it seems to cut the brightness so we use only the aluminous white . The only thing that we do is paint efflorescence eyeball and we prefer to use short hackle on these jigs. Yes similar to firefly.

[skiptomylu]

Haha, no Skip, i am not interested in your secret formula for the Krabby Patty. I just saw your post earlier about how the board was slow and 'tight lipped' and thought it was kinda humorous. I guess when you are in the biz, you got to keep those trade secrets close. Think i have given up just about all the little tricks i have learned, but thats just me. BTW - If a guy named Plankton shows up at your door one day, lock that formula away in the vault and kick him out of the Krusty Krab!!!

Sorry... with having 2 young kids at home, i end up watching a little too much Spongebob. :D

Well this was not something I learned for anyone else and I even thought about getting a trademark for it. I tell most anything someone wants to learn about tying, but this one is different to me. I still think about trademarking the process. Since you have never seen them of had them in hand you would understand now different they are. Like I said ask Grizz as he had some.

Also don't see anything related to the post about tight lipped since that was just about making post, nothing about secrets and how to do anything. Heck show off some jigs someone tied. Get the picture? They are completely separate things and have nothing to do with each other. Maybe you just didn't get it.

Skip

[LedHed]

Anyway – back to my original post

RM – “When do you use them and how effective are they over no glow jigs.” Night time mostly or in deep water.

AF and RD – thnx really appreciate the compliments

The jigs I do are not rocket science or some kind of Voodoo magic. The heads are painted with standard Pro-Tec phosphorus powder paint. Used the fluff and stuff technique on the roundheads and the tube jigs are powder painted with 4 different colors using the brush technique.

The eyes are 3 D 2 mm glow in the dark - special order from ebay. Phosphorus thread (4 colors) and the glow wig were bought of ebay also. The final element is Flashabou glow flash accent – I get mine from CAT.

Years back started mixing phosphorus powder with fingernail polish to paint jigs but mostly to do eyes. Something about the powder would suck up all the VOCs out of the FP and dry it up. No big deal - just add acetone or FP remover and mix up what you are going to use. Powder painting is so much easier - application and clean up. You can even take the phosphorus powder paint and add it to FP if you want to paint the jigs.

Haven't messed with Pro-Tec's high visibility glow stuff much. School of thought, out here, is that the subtle glow illicit more strikes than the "brighter shine for ever" colors. Got some 12 hour glow powder but can’t see fishing with the same jig for 12 hours.

Does glow in the dark jigs catch more fish? Probably not – just another gimmick to play with........

Chenille (got from JJ1) bodies. The Flashabou glow accent is from CAT – best stuff out there.

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[skiptomylu]

During the day I think they can be a help and sometimes do better than one not glowing, but as you said just another tool. I know they work day time especially fishing down 10' or more as the light in my lake that deep would probably not be reaching much. I know with mine every time you pull them up the sun will charge the heck out of them.

I am not sure at all, but I believe you probably would have your jigs most visible with UV material and probably farther through the water. Since in Crystal Clear water the last color that can be seen is blue at 40' and UV color or light can go 700' through the water. You can't see it, but the fish can. The only way you can see it's there is under a black light, but Florescent color also glow under a black light.

Take a bass, He can see roughly 15'-17' in stained water and about 5' in muddy water so you can see where they can see so much better than we can it's hard to know more than what you experience when you fish these glow or UV materials.

I am going to try some chenille this next year with UV and I can make my heads UV coated now. So the only part not being UV would be the tail.

If glow is cool and should help especially in stained water, UV has to be awesome, IMHO!

I hope this addresses your question! Can't say I know enough to be definitive about this, but the evidence seems pretty clear to me.

Skip

[Redman]

After doing some reserch into the glow in the dark subject there is one I know I don't want to mess with. It is the strongest and longest lasting of them all but the most deadly. Radium paint !!!! It killed thousands of workers in the clock and watch industry back in the 1920's thur the 1940's. It was used to paint the numbers and hands on clocks and watches to make them illuminus at night. Several of the watch and clock companies had to start there own hospitals to treat these poor souls who didn't have a clue as what was making them sick and killing them. Part of the problem was that they would thin the paint with water and the girls that painted the dials and hands would wet the brushes on there tounges. Aren't we lucky that we have safe products to work with rather than radioactive material that could cause us great harm.
I am excited to use some of the glow jigs if they work as good as all you say they do. A new weapon in my crappie arsonal.

Redman

[midnight_f150]

After doing some reserch into the glow in the dark subject there is one I know I don't want to mess with. It is the strongest and longest lasting of them all but the most deadly. Radium paint !!!! It killed thousands of workers in the clock and watch industry back in the 1920's thur the 1940's. It was used to paint the numbers and hands on clocks and watches to make them illuminus at night. Several of the watch and clock companies had to start there own hospitals to treat these poor souls who didn't have a clue as what was making them sick and killing them. Part of the problem was that they would thin the paint with water and the girls that painted the dials and hands would wet the brushes on there tounges. Aren't we lucky that we have safe products to work with rather than radioactive material that could cause us great harm.
I am excited to use some of the glow jigs if they work as good as all you say they do. A new weapon in my crappie arsonal.

Redman

redman I saw this on mythbusters.

[Redman]

Midnight This is historic fact and not myth. There was a documentery film that was made in the 1980's on this. I saw it back around 1990 they interviewed people that had worked in the Westclox clock works. These girls had to work 6 days a week on 10 hour shifts. They would even paint their faces with radium paint and go home to scare their family by looking thur windows into their houses. Nothing to fool with or should I say only a fool would fool with this stuff. Here is a link for you Radium Girls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. And another Martha Irvine, Suffering Endures for 'Radium Girls' who painted watches in the '20s. Scary stuff!!!!!!

Redman

[skiptomylu]

Mine has no such stuff in it, LOL! Don't want to radiate people for sure.

Not to say there are not fumes involved making them though.

Skip

[midnight_f150]

hey redman I didnt mean it was a myth. I saw a show on mythbuster about it. It is 100% true.