Conference wahoo::fishing-v2

    Recently, I have had positive experiences salmon fishing with
    flourescent Colorado spinners ahead of bias cut herring.  This is
    most approriate at first light 'till sunup.  Many a time I could 
    not get the bait down to the desired depth before seeing the rod
    pulsating before attaching to the downrigger ball.  Most typical 
    catch is coho from 4 to 12 lbs.  My steps. bias cut the herring, 
    place one drop DR.Fish Salmon attractant in body cavity, charge
    the flourescent strip on the adhesive tap or flasher with spotlight
    and let out 20 or 30 feet.  More than half the time had fish on  within
    first five minutes during pre dawn bite.
    
    Less positive results with glow in the dark plugs, mostly tomic or
    silver horde.  Usually go to them when dogfish infest area of Puget
    Sound.  Seem to catch more male coho with scent...
    
    Most popular lure this past summer was buzz bomb jig with luminescent
    tape.  Lots of coho fell; usually I would add a drop of scent.
    
    

 Gees, I'm surprised JohnHC hasn't jumped in here
yet... My experience Bass fishing at night has allowed
me to make the following assumptions. These are my 
opinions only and I in no way have degrees in the
Bioligy field to qualify me to state facts, only 
opinions and assumptions.
 I belive that in water in any light or color you are
in the fishes environment. Bass have excellent eye sight
and can see wonderful in the dark. The also have have
sensitive hearing the can pick up vibrations for quite
a distance.
 At night, my lure of choice is a Black/Blue Jig & pig
and a spinner bait. I have had bass almost rip the pole
out of my hand hitting spinner baits in the dark. I have
also had strikes on a jig&pig at night I would kill for 
in the daylight.
 Generally things on a lake quiet down at night. Boats
stop, people leave thier docks and head in to escape
being carried off by mosquetoes. This quiet I belive
enhances the fishes ability and widens wour strike zone
without the use of any imatation lights. After all when
was the time you saw a crawdad with a 9volt Eveready an
a mining light attached to it's back?

 My $.02

 - Dave
 

    
    
      Well The glo's are used alot out here on the great lakes, in a wide
    variety of lure designs, and I will say that glo J plugs in the early
    morning hours of fall king fishing is the best, and there is no better
    sound that the crack of the pole as a 30+ lb king rips off with a J
    plug that is only 30 feet behind the boat and 4 feet down! 
    
       The use of glo lures has become more popular in past years,
    especially when we go to deep water for fish (ie over 80 feet down)
    we have found that the best way to charge the glo is with a camera
    flasher, because of the intense brightness, also have found that it is
    best to keep any glo stuff stored out of the sun when not in direct
    use.
    
         as to the reason why glo works so good on some days I have no idea
    but on the fall kings we use it primarily to aggitate the fish into
    striking out of pure anger, and it seems to work most of the time.
    
    
                                                             Lee
    

    One of the most amazing days of codfishing I have ever had taught me
    a bit about luminescent lures.
    
    I was fishing on a party boat out of Lynn in the early spring in about
    200 feet of water. The fishing was very good, but we still had to work
    the jigs to hook up. We weren't just dropping them over, twitching the
    rod and hooking up. 
    
    The guy next to me worked at a print shop that specialized in bumper
    stickers and he had a supply of luminescent bumper sticker material and
    some nice mylar sticky back stock. He had taped a strip of the
    luminescent material to each of the three faces of his cod jig, tossed
    the thing over and hooked up almost immediately while the rest of us
    worked. He filled an entire burlap sack with well over 100 lbs of fish all
    in the 5-10 lb range by himself while my dad and I filled our one sack
    about 3/4.
    
    He gave me some of the stuff he was using and I used it on subsequent
    trips with moderate success (nothing like that day), but I'm convinced
    that it works -- maybe not all the time, but under some conditions will
    give you an advantage. I've never seen it to be a disadvantage.
    
    Unfortunately this was long time ago and the ravages of salt water have
    taken the luminescence from my tape and I don't know where to get more,
    but if I ever find it, I'll try it again.
    
    Along the same lines, I've always found that fluorescent lures,
    particularly pink or orange seem to work pretty well on cod as well.
    
    Hope this info helps.
    
    Art
    

    Hey Art, Paint it on. Go to a craft store. They most likely have 
    glow in the dark paint. The one I got my stuff from had different
    colors too. I use it for Icefishing jigs. 

    I second the camera flash for lighting them up, was a article in the 
    "In-fisherman" about using the flash.

    Rich

    I was just looking at the new Edmun Scientific Catalog this morning...
    and they sell a Luminous Acrylic Pait that Glows in the dark, it
    is non -radioactive, it dries to perment water-resistant finish
    
    Gee maybe this can be use, it assobs and stores daylight 
    
    a 2 oz bottle is $10.50   part number d31,806...
    
    this might be worth a try, 
    
    john
    

I bought a small bottle of luminescent paint from NetCraft for adding some
glow on a few of my surface lures.  They suggest that you use a white 
undercoat first before painting on the glow paint.

It works fine.  A cheap camera flash works great to activate it.  Close
your eyes or it will take forever to get your night vision back.

-HSJ-

    Great ideas! Thanks.
    
    Art
    

    I paid $2 for the paint at the craft store, good as new after 2 years.
    I'm sure its gone up in price, must be up to $2.25 by now.:-) 

    What I read about using this stuff is that you do not want to use too 
    much, in other words: there is a potential for over kill. I paint a
    narrow lateral line on either side of the jig. I have had luck fishing
    for laker's with that method.

    Rich

They sell sheets of this stuff at Spag's in different colors.
The price for one/two?? sheets about 8X8" was a couple of dollars.

	STeve