Just made these up for night fishing. Be interesting to see if they work.
All black.
Black glo tail
All glo
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Just made these up for night fishing. Be interesting to see if they work.
All black.
Black glo tail
All glo
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Neat looking baits.
Nice work those look great
A little on the different side too.
Very Nice
In a lot. Of our waters a full-glow bait will often chase a fish away. All that glow makes the bait appear as though it's about 4 times its actual size. Still, glow baits can be a super productive bait even in hot weather when the fish begging to orient to deeper water. Here's how I counter that issue and still get the benefit of the glow. I find much smaller, areas and more precisely placed glow makes all the difference in the world and the fish are way less like.y to spook because of glow baits that look larger than they really are.
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What I have done here is to mix a small amount of the glow pigment with a tiny bit of worm oil. This gets dotted onto a half bait hand-pour near the tail of the body, then the finish injection is done. In this picture I am using a green glow that has a slight green color to it so you can get the gist of what I am saying. Most of today's glow pigments are of a high performance quality and will show thru even in black as has been shown here.
Somewhere in all of this posting I showed a picture of a Jacobs bait with a small round, but flat, tail disc that is done in clear glow with the remainder of the tail done in chartreuse, then the body done in my clear bluegill glitter color. I call these little baits "Stop Lights" because they resemble an old fashioned stop light and pole. I make these in several colors and use them mostly when the water temps begin to sink down and out of reality....near freezing.
Here are a couple examples of the "stop lights" I make. I make most of these in the two body colors shown and always with the chartreuse tail. There are re and green glow baits in the pic, the green of course glows in that color and red in the other.
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I have done that technique before using a toothpick to stripe a part of the belly of the mold before injecting it. I am "old school" and believe that "Less is more." I believe that just the hint of glow will peak the curiosity of the fish and they will open their mouth to investigate. Then you hear the fish saying......Quote:
Originally Posted by CTom
"Oh my gosh....too late...it is shipahoy41 on the end of this line and he got me. I hope that he is practicing catch and release today instead of catch and grease."
The underwater cameras did a lot to hone my use of glow in plastic and on jigs. I've seen a lot of super nice fish swim away from baits that were all glow and I've seen the size of the "aura" that created around the bait by so much light being tossed from full glow baits. The basic glow green is the worst. Glow blue is right after that, then the red. The hardest color of glow pigment to charge is glow purple and it, put on the end of one of the stop lights has a very nice, soft purple glow that doesn't have the light migrate much from the bait's surface....it doesn't create much of that halo glow around the disc of glow color on the tail.
Purple glow is a real sleeper. The pigment I have from Glo-Inc.com is white and doesn't stain the plastic you put it in other than cloud it just a tad. When the regular eerie green glow stuff begins to get quiet with the fish and hit slack off, try glow red. When that bite dies off, use the purple. The purple doesn't glow like something atomic and is closer to the invisible uv in color than any glow and is wayyyyy more visible to fish than any other color of glow even when offered in a small spot like the baits I showed. The fish focus their hits on that spot.
Here's a couple other "no-bull" suggestions for using glow products. Nothing on earth charges a glow product like direct sunshine. Next up, is a camera flash. I have two or three cheap flash units meant to attach to a camera as an accessory and use 3-4 AAA batteries. Walmart sells a couple models. And then, when its cold out and you want to use glow plastic or jigs, keep in mind that the glow will take a charge much better and deeper if they items are warm. Slip a few plastics and a couple of the jigs in a zip lock bag and keep them in a shirt pocket under your sweatshirt or jacket so your body heat keeps them warm. Your flash will work better if kept warm in the same way too.