Charging Glow and UV

[Finished Business]

Use a water activated LED light in a hootchy-much more effective if you are looking to "shine"

Do these things catch fish or just fisherman? LOL Pictures to go with the endless promoting would be grand.

I have some in my tackle box but so far all they have caught is me. Should I have more faith in them and swim them more?

 

[hambone]

Spring fever is the one who tested the UV lights and has posted his results on this forum many times. I plan on giving one a try this summer.

I should add, I watched him have success with them in Nootka.

 

[Seafever]

If you leave such hoochies as Purple haze, Jellyfish, Green haze, Pink Haze out in the hot summer sun for a period.......the sunlight will "cook" the UV pigment and turn the hoochy from faintly bluish to full out opaque light blue. You can also see this effect in hoochies of that type hanging in a store for too long. The guys that sell them say it doesn't matter....the hoochy will work just as good even though it is now totally opaque. I don't believe them. Once the UV pigment is "cooked", it doesn't work right. UV translucent flashers and UV in "hard" plastic tackle seems to fair a little bit better. UV flashers don't seem to cook pigment.......but if left out in the sun for a period you can see them starting to drastically change color temporarily. The idea is that the UV component "reflects " UV light at depth. Once the UV pigment is "cooked" or destroyed ........it won't do it's job.

 

[spring fever]

Hambone-thanks for the support. To FB-I have no axe to grind on the LED's-I just test them and I got to test them because I believed very strongly in glow and UV products. I kept playing with paints and powders etc -they worked to a degree then I found some water activated LED lights and played with them. Met Salty Dog (Pirates Den) and started testing with him under controlled conditions-ie I usually run a control lure on one side (usually anchovie) so that I have something to compare with. Last year was my first year at it-I should mention I have tested for other manufacturers and wrote the article for Nootka Sound for Salmon university so I understand comparitive testing. It was new to me but every time I went out I learned more about the lights. I'm sure what I learned probably holds true for glow products. You can't catch fish if the lights are in the tackle box. You have to pick the right hootchy-they don't fit in all of them. Standard leader lengths work as the lights are neutral as to weight in the water. They work well , down deep,cloudy days, evenings and mornings. If it is sunny and you are fishing high in the water column save the batteries. My last trip to winter harbour was so encouraging , I finally got a white cuttlefish hootchy to outfish anchovy-so much so that the crew wanted to switch to lights both sides. So if you see my Skagit (SpringFever) drop on over and see what Pirates Den (SaltyDog) has come up with in the continuing evolution of "shine" for fishing. Tight Lines

 

[Whole in the Water]

If you leave such hoochies as Purple haze, Jellyfish, Green haze, Pink Haze out in the hot summer sun for a period.......the sunlight will "cook" the UV pigment and turn the hoochy from faintly bluish to full out opaque light blue. You can also see this effect in hoochies of that type hanging in a store for too long. The guys that sell them say it doesn't matter....the hoochy will work just as good even though it is now totally opaque. I don't believe them. Once the UV pigment is "cooked", it doesn't work right. UV translucent flashers and UV in "hard" plastic tackle seems to fair a little bit better. UV flashers don't seem to cook pigment.......but if left out in the sun for a period you can see them starting to drastically change color temporarily. The idea is that the UV component "reflects " UV light at depth. Once the UV pigment is "cooked" or destroyed ........it won't do it's job.

I have bought and used manufactured opaque colour UV hootchies and they work just as well as transparent UV hootchies in my experience.

You make some interesting comments about cooking the UV pigment that makes me curious. Do you have any data about how this happens? Thanks.

 

[Finished Business]

I was a little grumpy before my coffee I don't want to bash the Den lures. I met Salty at the show and he has a great product. I actually would like to pick up a few of his squids, sans lights. They are a great representation of bait, right down to the suction cups! I do have some lights at the ready and went over the pros and cons of bright light, and diffused lights in his lures with him. He did mention your work SF and he explained there is no gain to you other than fishing a new lure and offering opinion. Kudos.

....back on track, I use my deck lights to charge my glow lures and flashers.

 

[Seafever]

Whole In The Water:- there are references to UV pigment "cooking" at different places around the net......can't remember them off the top of my head though. An ordinary UV hoochy and a translucent UV hoochy are two different things. An ordinary UV hoochy looks like any other ordinary hoochy but the maker claims it has UV in it. The translucent UV hoochy is immediately noticeable as such because the clearish body has a slight blue tinge to it when held at certain angles. It is these hoochies that will "Blue up" and go opaque. If it's a solid color hoochy I wouldn't worry too much about the UV factor. The older Yamashita Golden Bait hoochies, back in the day before they changed the pigment content, would "scream" under a blacklight. That is why many of them were killers before anybody was "UV conscious". It doesn't hurt at all to examine your hoochy collection under a blacklight in the dark and see what happens color-wise. Quite surprising how certain makes and colors of hoochy will respond. Over the recent past , hoochy makers have gone to different mixtures and ingredients in the hoochy vinyl........some with good results , some not so much. Some of the old Radiant hoochies were really good for UV "pop" under black light ...even though at the time UV was not being promoted. Nowadays, the "translucents" like the Jellyfish hoochy are totally UV body. Some are a combo of color and clear UV bottom half. Personally....if it's got any type of clear body mixed with half color, I will still keep it out of the sun. I store them in total darkness.