Problems with glowing waxies?

[Renneberg]

I just got some of those glowing waxies, but they don't glow like I see in the magazines.

So far I've only been able to get two out of 2 dozen to glow. Not to bright I my add.

Am I not flashing them enofe or are they a just a joke?

Thanks

[Guest]

My experience with them is that they will glow very well, but need to be charged slowly. Leaving them in sunlight for 10 minutes is a good way to do it. Using a camera flash just doesn't do it well.

Good Fishing,
Mike

[Guest]

The plate of food you get at a restaurant never looks like the one you see on the commercial...

Sales pitches. I have never heard of these things. Where did you find them?

PCG

[Renneberg]

I got them at Wayzata Bait & Tackle.

You should be able to find them at any good bait store.

[Guest]

Since the reason they glow is the food they consume and subsequently absorb into their system is luminescent, maybe you got some that were not as healthy as they should be?

I did hear if they begin to dehydrate they do not glow as well.

Where they chubby and healthy looking?

[Guest]

Try mushing them up on the hook once.

This sometimes is a goo way to get apprehensive fish to bite as well.

PCG

[Renneberg]

They look good. No black or discolored ones.

[Ice Hole]

The ones at Gander Mountain in Woodbury are junk. I opened 7 different containers and none of em glow worth a darn!! 5$ for 40 waxies? hrrm... Anyone get em to glow well yet? or were these all just duds... 10 minutes in the sunlight!? I want em to glow at night

[Guest]

Just don't stick them in the microwave whatever you do!

They mutate into GIANT Killer glowing moths!

Big vicious scary critter too!

MOTHZILLA!

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

[Guest]

Gander Mountain?

Wal-Mart has better bait then Gander Mountain. My opinion on Gander Mountain has declined quite a bit over the last year or so.

PCG

[Ice Hole]

Each place gets their bait from a diff place...the Walmart here has different bait from a different vendor than your Walmart. Around here, blue ribbon is best

[ackotz]

Just keep telling yourself that what a fish sees is a huge neon glow underwater!
Remember, their eyes are "more sensitive"...

Why not use a waxie on a glow hook? That's what I do.
...and remember, people were catching lots of walleyes before those "neon crawlers" showed up!
You gotta learn to fish! Not learn to buy!!
They're gimmicks people, just sales gimmicks!

[Bruce Mosher]

They do glow, but not to much. Yes the best way would be sunlight but then you can use normal waxworms for the daylight hours. A camera flash is the best but don't expect a hot glow. It's a more subtle glow. Bruce Mosher

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Bruce Mosher,www.icebusterbobbers.com

[Toad]

I'm not gonna tell you that these things are a magic bait. Not even gonna say that they outproduce regular wax worms. But the fact is, they will glow and glow quite well. The red ones glow the best, followed by the orange and last, the chartreuse ones.

The key to getting 'em to glow is to first warm 'em up quite a bit. I've been puting mine under the floorboard heater in my truck while on the way to the lake. Once you get 'em good and toasty, give one a nice sustained zap with a Tazer or similar lighting product. I usually give 'em a good ten second zap, rolling the bugger in my hand all the while.

If you expect 'em to glow like a Christmas tree bulb, you're gonna be sorely diappointed. But I definitely think that if you do it right, under a bit of darkness, they're going to be easily as visible down below as most glow jigs. If you believe at all in phosphorescence as a positive factor in fishing then you ought to at least give these baits a good try.

Expensive? Well, tell ya what, if they work well enough, I guarantee not too many of us will be complaining anymore. During the peak walleye bite in fall each year, I'd probably pay at least $10 a dozen for big redtail chubs (don't tell Koep's I said that, though ).

-a friend called Toad

[Guest]

I got a package of these from a friend called Toad last weekend. They are the Red Glow variety. After warming them up I just use my Princeton Head Lamp on them for a few seconds and they really glow. I think the key is, as Toad mentioned, warm them up first.

I will agree that they do have a funky odor to them. I am still in the process of comparing them to regular wax worms. This weekend should be a real test for them. I like the concept though. Scott Steil

[Renneberg]

Toad and ScottS are right. You have to let them warm up a while to get them to glow.

I let mine warm up for a few hours and they all started to glow. The longer I left them out the better they glowed.

Thanks for the help.