Does fishing lure paint glow only to the fish?
Lainey asked:
I was thinking about painting something with fishing lure paint, hoping it would be cheaper than traditional glow paint. But, I’ve never fished and don’t know anything about it! How long does it glow and has anyone heard about this stuff being radioactive? Some people advertise that theirs isn’t.
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I was thinking about painting something with fishing lure paint, hoping it would be cheaper than traditional glow paint. But, I’ve never fished and don’t know anything about it! How long does it glow and has anyone heard about this stuff being radioactive? Some people advertise that theirs isn’t.
December 19th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Radioactive….umm, no. If you’re looking at painting a lure with glow paint, and there is a warning for radioactive material….then I would strongly suggest not considering that product. For the record, I have not found a glow lure paint that has ever mentioned radioactivity….so that’s just ODD.
Anyway, the idea that it only glows to the fish is new to me too. If you’re putting lure paint on, and it doesn’t indicate that it is glow paint, then it’s not going to glow….to anything….including fish. The only way you’re going to get a lure to glow is to use glow paint. The problem with it is that you can’t just go out and buy any old glow paint and use it. You’d need to either get weatherproof/waterproof paint OR you can try using traditional glow paint and then applying a waterproof coating over it (ie. fully coated, clear acrylic).
I would just shell out the extra money for weatherproof/waterproof paint since the acrylic plus the regular stuff is going to amount to almost the same price. BESIDES, you have to do twice the work if you have to apply the acrylic too!
Some of the chemical based glow paints will make claims of glowing for hours. Ehh….ok. That’s not TOTALLY accurate. Once applied, they will, if charged for about 10-15 minutes, glow bright for about 1-3 hours, depending on thickness, until it begins to lose strength. That’s the more expensive, $15+ per ounce stuff. It’s worth the money, if you have it to spend.
i don’t know what kind of lure you’re considering doing this to, but you might also want to consider glow TAPE for lures. The tape is VERY strong, and always waterproof. It doesn’t fall off - I’ve used it in the past on different lures. I think it’s better, cheaper, less messy, and more MUCH less time consuming than using the paint. What I do with glow lures is just take a flashlight, hold it up to the part that needs illuminating, it will absorb the light, and keep it for a little while. Then you can just use your light again when it starts to get dimmer. I don’t sit there for 5-10 minutes like some paint manufacturers suggest - “to get maximum output….”
Just a few considerations…… caunltd
December 22nd, 2009 at 2:57 am
Fishing Lure Glow Paint isn’t radioactive. I know the glow tints used for tattoos a bunch of years back carried that warning. But not lure paint.
An easy way to make the paint molecules “charge” is to take a camera flash that is used for 35mm and flash the paint. It lasts for about 10 minutes. And when the paint is “charged” the human eye can also see it.
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December 23rd, 2009 at 1:32 pm
ANY camera flash will work. It doesn’t necessarily have to be one from a thirty-five millimeter. Grand Master Basser