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| A question for those night fishing addicts,...do you find glowing (luminescent) baits are important ? |
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| On a side note - check out this guys website. His tubes and hollow swimbait (9") are amazing and very productive! He is likely to humble to self-promote himself here.
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Location: In a shack in the woods | I don't night fish very often but have don well on glow dogs during the daytime. |
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| I prefer the baits themselves don't glow. A strip of glow tape on top of a crankbait or topwater is helpful though. I guess some guys put a glow bead or tape in front of their leaders too to avoid those confusing night-time figure 8s that are attempted with 15 feet of line out still. |
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Location: Land of the Musky | I have had customers on both sides. Many tell me the glow works great during the overcast days and I have had a few guys tell me the night bite is great for glow. Even one customer who got his PB musky on a glow at night. Most of what I have heard is that the average musky fisherman does not like glow at night. The theory of, what does a musky think of a flash light coming at it at night. I personally have never caught anything on a glow lure at night but then again I have not used them much at night. Just some glow double #10s and then one night they did not get a lot of night use once my buddy got one on a regular double #10. They look real cool though at night  I think the glow bead or glow leader like Stealth makes get used a lot more than glow lures. JMO
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Location: Home of the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs | Tackle Industries - 12/16/2009 9:07 PM
The theory of, what does a musky think of a flash light coming at it at night.
I have thought the same but then second guess myself thinking about the extremely productive glow baits I use when Salmon fishing. I have'nt much tried it for muskies but will pepper it in my line up here and there oddly enough with a mag flat fish (glow), among others, that also does well on Kings. |
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Location: WI | Here is a picture of a new product from Stealth Leaders....Stealth Night Leader with Glowin' Outdoors technology. This leader was tested all season and makes it so much easier to figure eight afterdark. It will be introduced at the Chicago show.
(Stealth Glowin Outdoors full rs.jpg)
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| nothing new,have been made for years! |
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Location: lansing, il | Correct the glow leaders have been made for a few years now, however they have never been offered with the glowin outdoors technology. the past glow leaders needed to be recharged quite a bit more, with the glowin outdoors ones you will find that you dont have to stop and hit them with a light as much. |
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| Does Glowin' Outdoors make a bead yet? I want to put the bead above the leader, on the line itself, to protect against me running the metal swivel on the leader into the rod tip. Doesn't happen very often, but makes me nervous when I do happen to do it. |
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Location: lansing, il | No he does not have a bead out yet...The concept behind the glow tape on the leader is so that you can see it so that you dont run your swivel into your rod tip. |
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| I'm not always the best at paying attention...HAHAHAHA |
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| Here's a lure I made for night fishing, a Shallow Suzy Sucker. I can see lure long before it gets to the boat.
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| Nice, I was thinking along the same lines. A dark silhouette is more important to the fish, but keeping the bait visible to the angler is also handy for fig 8's and distance perception. Del did a nice job on your molds ! |
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Location: South Portsmouth, KY | muskihntr - 12/17/2009 10:48 AM
Correct the glow leaders have been made for a few years now, however they have never been offered with the glowin outdoors technology. the past glow leaders needed to be recharged quite a bit more, with the glowin outdoors ones you will find that you dont have to stop and hit them with a light as much.
Will you be able to leave this one out in the sunlight without it taking the glow effect out of it much? I tried to word this as good as i could. haha |
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Location: lansing, il | Yes Justin, Most of the guides who have been using Dans products on their trolling motors and pedals are exposing it to sunlight each day, and they have no problem with it lasting at nite through the season and then some. I know hulbert had the stuff on his boat for well over a year and it was still glowing into the second season. |
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| please stop polluting the post |
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Location: WI | I know there is a Climate Summit going on right now, but not sure how John's responses to two direct questions on a Tackle and Equipment Forum is "pollution".
Sorry if you are offended. I don't think you will find much chest pumping about either of our two companies from John or myself.
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Location: The desert | fishbag - 12/17/2009 7:03 PM
please stop polluting the post
Kind of like what you are doing with this mindless post?
Jeez John, reduce you carbon footprint already. I think Al Gore has some Carbon Credits for sale. I think MFirst accepts them for your membership/posting permission payments.
Clowns. |
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| I hate clowns. Creepy bastards they are. You can never tell if they're really happy or not. Between the makeup, the fake hair and the funny shoes? I get that you have to do what you have to do to make a living, but that just ain't right!
Wait, was I polluting the post? DAMMIT! I always do that. Okay.. Glow. Glow. What was the question? How important is glow? Yeah, that was it.
Ummm... Well?
Muskies don't seem to have trouble finding lures in the dark, or in dirty water, or deep water.
I have a hell of a time, though. So for me? A lure that glows? BONUS. I can find it, I can see it, I can see it in the water instead of just feeling where it is in the dark. (which you get pretty good at, actually) And there's the added benefit of watching it come through the water and thinking "wow, man... coooool!" (I am STILL waiting for those flashbacks they promised me over 20 years ago, by the way...)
IF you think its important? It's IMPORTANT. Glow the #*#* out of everything you got my friend. What have you got to lose?? |
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| Pollution/Clowns aside lol
I asked the question to see if it's worth producing a bait that glows..some great responses !! Thanks boys
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Location: lansing, il | Actually had a certain person not have made an incorrect statement i probably wouldnt have said anything at all. but hey, ya can never please everyone.
Anyway, I throw black/glow combo alot, its probablly my #1 goto color for superds and curly sues. Never been effective at nite, but use em alot in the daylight.
I like those shadzillas, will you be at any of the musky shows?
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| Sorry, no. I'm working on getting a retailer for our baits in the US, but nothing yet. |
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| I like the looks of your tubes and the Shadzilla. Can I get these in the US or do I need to order direct? Thanks - John |
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| Hey John , sent you a PM |
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