Neon Bites and other observations

[Guest]

I’ve been reading this Forum for some time now and have read many interesting and helpful things so I thought I’d give it try and hopefully add a few of my own.

I found some glow jigs called “Neon Bites” and they seem to work extremely well here on crappie. I fish a reservoir (power generation) that has murky water and find most of the fish in 35’ of water. I’ve been watching the crappie come off bottom and hit the jigs as they fall 7’ up off bottom. No other “glow type” jig (or non-glow lure) I’ve used has given me that kind of response. This doesn’t appear to be an isolated occurrence; it’s been going on since I started using them. I’m finding the cherry red glow color beating out all of my old standbys with the fish swimming past them to hit the bright red jig. I’m tipping the jigs with a minnow and I also modify the jigs by adding a #14 gold treble hook.

As I’ve read on another post, I too use a modified Kodak disposable camera for charging my glow jigs. Once you understand where to cut to find the blue wheel, it’s easy. I found if you go to a photo developer, some will give you the camera bodies because they’re left over and thrown into a recycle bin.

In a previous post, people were discussing which boots they like to wear ice fishing. One “replier” mentioned he liked his Georgia “Ice Trekkers” with the 1600 grams of Thinsulate and the removable ice spikes. I also have a pair and swear by them. This year with the thawing and freezing and little snow cover, my back would be killing me walking as far as I do by now. Nope, these boots let me walk with a far more normal stance on bare ice then without them.

[dickie]

Hey Seldom....
Saw your post about "neon bites" and wonder if you can describe them and tell us who manufactures them and where to buy them.
Also as I have never used a camera for this purpose I don't understand the part about
"where to cut to find the blue wheel".
Thanks for your help .
Good fishin...

[Guest]

Hi Dickie,
The jigs are "Neon Lites" (excuse me for calling them Bites) made by Bartness Industries, Glyndon MN. The crappie would swim right by the red (hot last Friday) and blue this morning to get to the green! These things must be made with the newer glow paints I've seen mentioned on this forum because they are far and away brighter then the Demons, Rat Finkies, or Marmuska's I've used. One flash with the camera and the red glows like the old style christmas tree lights!

Concerning the disposable camera. In the back of the camera, look for a small raised, curved part of the camera's body below and to the left of the rewind wheel. It hardly sticks up an 1/8" but it's a shroud covering the part of the "blue film wheel" that they couldn't engineer it completely inside the camera body. I just cut off the film housing cover flap and then made two slices to the left. One just above the raised part and the lower one can be 1/2" below it (room for your thumb). Once you make the two cuts and you're through the plastic, peel the plastic back and you'll see the "blue film wheel". Once you've got the wheel cleared, you just roll it to the right with your thumb until you see/hear the "firing button" reset itself. That's it and your flashing. I would also advise replacing the AA battery with a good one before you hit the lake.