Thoughts on lures with glow paint for night trolling?

[insurance guy]

The discussion on the line visibility thread regarding lure colors at night led me to this question. Just wanted to see if any of you fellas have experimented with adding stripes or dots of glow paint on any of your stickbaits or crankbaits for trolling at night and if so what do you think about it?

[Team Otter]

I haven't tried glow paint but I have experimented with colored Sharpie markers. For me, I think it helps to show them something just a little different from time to time.

[Northlander]

I can say that at times my glow stick baits like Renoski's outproduce non glowing sticks. At times its as much as 5 or 6 to 1.

I know in the winter glow blade baits and spoons get used a lot in my houses.

[insurance guy]

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I haven't tried glow paint but I have experimented with colored Sharpie markers. For me, I think it helps to show them something just a little different from time to time.

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That's as far as I've gotten also. I have had very good luck with a permanent black marker and wiping out the orange or white belly stripe on some of my stickbaits and replacing it with black stripe and also striping the sides of some of my silver and gold baits with black dashes, dots or stripes. Something about black contrasting with other colors seems to work well for walleyes at night and I know people also report good luck with that for largemouth bass.

[insurance guy]

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I can say that at times my glow stick baits like Renoski's outproduce non glowing sticks. At times its as much as 5 or 6 to 1.

I know in the winter glow blade baits and spoons get used a lot in my houses.

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Have you been able to determine when that seems to work the best in regards to light conditions. Bright moonlit nights, dark nights, choppy or calm? I like glow paint for icefishing also as you can tell by my avatar and the laker that I was pulling through the ice. I use glow buckshot spoons for jigging lakers in real deep water of 100' to 170' in the winter and they seem to really like the green glow.

[n8ivefl]

For what its worth, I've noticed I get some great hits when I use a glow-head jig...

Steve

[Mike Walerak]

Funny you should ask! I just picked up some glow paint for my airbrush this afternoon. Up to this point I have only been able to add glow trebles as I was using dip paints. Now with my airbrush I will be doing some experimenting.

Gander Mtn. had a line of #7 shadraps that had glow bellies. I have not been there in a while so I don't know if they still have them or not.

mw

[PerchJerker]

I don't use glow crankbaits very often, I have a couple of them but don't have a lot of confidence in them yet. I also use Sharpies to doctor up some of my lures, although I don't do much of it.

[Northlander]

As far as conditions the glow lures work I dont think there is ever any type of constant in fishing. No 1 lure will catch fish every time out and only under certain conditions.

Out of all the glow sticks I use I have 1 or 2 that seem to outproduce the others more often than not.

With that in mind I have had glow outproduce other non glowing sticks in many conditions. Then I have had the opposite. Like I said above nothing is constsnt in fishing. Thats why we carry 300 sticks,cranks etc. every time out. Oh and we buy even more when we hear they are "Hot".

[Team Otter]

How about a Northland Glow Stick above the crank bait?

[Boedigheimer]

Glow stick above the crankbait...Thats a good idea..I'm going to try that. I have tried glow paint on my baits, and didn't really notice a big difference in catch numbers, but I have done really well putting prism tape on my stickbaits. The lake I spend most of my time on has oodles of smelt in it and the prism tape seems to match them pretty well.

[Northlander]

Never done the glow stick deal. Does it effect the movement of the lures?

[Team Otter]

I'm going to try it and see what happens. My guess is that the movement would not be affected but I've been wrong plenty before.