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Hello Anglers,
I had a reader ask me to clarify what a jig and pig is. A jig
and pig is a lead headed jig with a rubber skirt and a pork
frog trailer. It is a super bait for big bass and is especially
good during the colder months.
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Why Glowing Lures Are So Good At Catching Fish
by Reid Wender of Photon Lures
Glowing Lures - Then
Seems like good things come in cycles, doesn't? I remember
listening to my dad talk about using glow in the dark fish-
ing lures back in the 1950's. He loved them and said that
they worked great but you had to charge them up every five
minutes to keep them glowing. Back then glowing lures and
products were created from zinc-based additives. These zinc
glow products suffered from several problems when used in
luminous fishing lures. While they would charge quickly
they would also quickly lose their glow. You made the zinc
products glow by exposing them to ultraviolet light (UV
light) but the UV rays tended to wear out the zinc glow such
that it would glow less and less over time. And, for the
longest time yellow-green was the only glow color you could
get in a glow in the dark product.
Glowing Lures - Now
My how things have changed. Today's high-tech glow additives
allow fishing lure manufacturers to create luminous or glow-
ing lures with a full spectrum of glow colors, and the glows
are much brighter and last longer than the glow lures of the
past. Today's glow material, like those in the past, is still
energized or charged after being exposed to UV light. Today's
glow material doesn't wear out after exposure to UV rays and
can glow just as bright as new years later.
Any source of UV light will do to charge your lures - sun-
light, a black light, or a fluorescent light. After an
initial charging of 2-5 minutes your glow lure will glow for
up to 8 hours in total darkness. When fishing in sunlight,
you don't have to do anything special to keep your lure
charged. Every time you retrieve your lure to make a cast
you will charge your lure for 5-10 seconds - plenty of time
to keep it glowing all day long. Plus, your lure can get UV
rays even when it is several feet under water - more on that
later.
Why Are Glowing Lures So Good At Catching Fish?
So why should you be fishing glowing lures? Well, for one
thing anybody who has fished them has learned that they just
plain catch fish. That's usually a good enough reason for
most of us but curious minds want to know why are glowing
lures so good at catching lots of fish in so many different
situations? To understand the catching power of today's
glowing lures we need a little more technical information
about how light travels through water, fish vision, and what
it takes to make the total glowing lure solution.
Light and Water
The first part of the glowing lure secret is light. Light
travels through water very differently than it does through
the air. For one thing, different colors of light travel
farther through water better than others do. Reds and oranges
travel the least distance in water before turning to shades
of grey with greens next, and finally blues traveling the
greatest distance. So, your lure that looks bright red in the
boat will appear some shade of grey when it is being fished
in 10-15 feet of water. Also if we remember our high school
science class, we will recall that much of the light that
hits the water's surface is reflected back into the sky. Yes,
at twelve noon with the sun directly overhead, in the summer,
sun light does a pretty good job of going down several feet
in the water. Move the sun backwards or forwards in the sky
an hour or two and much less of the sunlight hitting the
water's surface penetrates the water's surface.
Walleye Chop
Anybody who has done much walleye fishing knows how walleyes
will move into shallower water and begin actively feeding
when there is some wind on the surface of the water. That
wind takes that smooth surface of the water and turns it
into a very irregular chop pattern that greatly reduces the
amount of light entering the water. Walleyes have superior
light gathering capabilities in their eyes and these reduced
light levels give them a big advantage over prey fish in
these situations.
Suntan Underwater?
Here's an interesting little fact about glowing lures. We've
said that different colors of light travel better in water
than others. Well, ultraviolet light travels in water about
as well as green light does. If the sun is shining or even
on a partially cloudy day, the UV rays that are hitting your
arm and giving you a suntan will also travel through the
water and make your lure glow under water. So even though
you can't see the glow in the boat because of the bright
sunlight, at 8 feet in the water, the UV rays will be causing
your lure to instantly glow and add flash and contrast to
your lure to help it standout and attract predators.
So, Why Are Glowing Fishing Lures So Effective?
Walleye fishermen have known for several years about the
power of glowing lures. The secrets out and bass fisherman
are beginning to learn of the benefits of adding glow effects
to lures. Even crystal clear water can get pretty dark pretty
quick. When you are fishing in the 6-15 foot range, the water
has already turned shadowy. High-quality glowing lures only
need a slight shadow, not total darkness, to make their glow
patterns visible to the light seeking eyes of that big
predator hiding near cover. Bass, walleye, pike, salmon,
trout, steelhead, and many other species of fish have vision
optimized for color selection. Color does make a difference.
The problem is most lures, without glow, look the same color
- grey - when you get down several feed in the water. Today's
glowing lures bring a variety of colors down to the depths
where the fish are actively feeding. These colors include an
ever-increasing palette of violets, blues, greens, yellows,
oranges, and reds. Today's glow lures allow you to add flash,
contrast, and increased color to 8-25 feet, and deeper, fish-
ing. These glow colors greatly increase the contrast between
the lure and its surroundings and allows for easy locating,
tracking, and attacking by predator fish always looking for
that bait fish that stands out from the crowd and looks like
easy pickings.
Glow - One Part of Catching
Don't make no green glowing glob and call it a glowing lure.
A luminous lure should always start with a great color patt-
ern and then add glow effects to make it a killer pattern.
Even if it didn't glow a glowing lure should catch fish just
because the starting color pattern is a known fish attractor.
Glow turns a good lure into a catching machine.
The glow lures that best help you turn fishing into catching
use glow patterns to enhance and add contrast to proven,
classic fish catching color patterns. How do glows enhance
color patterns? Take a craw pattern for example. A good use
of glow would be to enhance the large dark scales on the
lure's side to make the lure stand out against the background.
Another good use of glow is to allow glow to come through the
fish scales of a shad pattern, or make the peach chest of a
bass pattern standout, or make wounded fish's eyes truly
standout.
Glowing Eyes
Predator fish are known to key in on the eyes of prey fish.
An outstanding use of glow in a lure is oversized glowing
eyes. The predator first locates the eyes so that she will
know which way the prey is swimming and then she pounces.
Quality glowing eyes are proven to enhance a lure's fish
catching ability.
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FISHING JOKES CORNER
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Fishing rule #1: The least experienced fisherman always
catches the biggest fish.
Fishing rule #2: The worse your line is tangled, the better
the fishing is around you.
Fishing rule #3: Fishing will do a lot for a man but it
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