To GLOW or not to GLOW for Halibut??
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muskeg
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Glow works ....
Andy82Hoyt
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I like the glow. Kodiak Custom now has their white jig with a glow skirt!
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Bullelkklr
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Almost always.
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bkmail
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We do. Sure dont see a down side.
Bk
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Sometimes it makes a difference and sometimes it doesn't. Always worth a try, but it's not a magic bullet or necessary to catch fish.
We always start the day with different stuff on each rod, one of which is always glow. If it performs, we switch all the rods to it. If it doesn't perform and something else is doing the job, the glow is so much litter in the gear tray.
We always start the day with different stuff on each rod, one of which is always glow. If it performs, we switch all the rods to it. If it doesn't perform and something else is doing the job, the glow is so much litter in the gear tray.
tlingitwarrior
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Love the glow for bottom fishing as well as salmon trolling with glow hoochies and flashers. If you really want to put a charge on your glow lures try this trick ~ get a roll of Onforu 33 ft LED UV black light. It has a sticky backing. I used it to line a five gallon bucket. It has a wall outlet plug in. I put all my glow lures in the bucket, plug it in when we leave the dock and the lures absolutly pop with color. Nothing charges like a black light.
Garyak
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That's a slick idea. Another that also works well is a camera flash/strobe. They often can be had for not much $ at thrift stores, pawn shops, etc. They put a charge on a lure pronto.
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Won't hurt but I don't bother for Halibut, no doubt it will give you a small advantage but scent is much more important imo.
I like to scent them in and catch them on light tackle and bucktail jigs with a small strip of bait in the lightest weight needed to get you down pending depth and current, doesn't seem to matter if its a glow, white, chartruse or pink the fish will normally hit it first over a big halibut hook and bait especially on a slow bite but those are my favorite colors
A small uv flashlight charges them quickly, we charge up big pl68's in the dark Ahi fishing long range, nothing like reeling up as fast as you can and having a Cow tuna slam it.
I like to scent them in and catch them on light tackle and bucktail jigs with a small strip of bait in the lightest weight needed to get you down pending depth and current, doesn't seem to matter if its a glow, white, chartruse or pink the fish will normally hit it first over a big halibut hook and bait especially on a slow bite but those are my favorite colors
A small uv flashlight charges them quickly, we charge up big pl68's in the dark Ahi fishing long range, nothing like reeling up as fast as you can and having a Cow tuna slam it.
270ti
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Haven't really had the need yet to put down glow, but I might had some double glow hoochies to my halibut rigs.
One thing for sure, double glow hoochies have been killer on the kings the last few years.
One thing for sure, double glow hoochies have been killer on the kings the last few years.
tboehm
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How long do you feel the charge on the glows last? How often do you recharge? Is there anything that you do to keep them charged longer?
I'm still a little ambivalent. We start each halibut day putting down a mix of gear, some glow and some not, and let them pick. Some days the glow is the difference and some days they completely ignore it and hit something else.
I've never found ANYTHING to be a sure deal in fishing, and glow has its place on the same list. I'll use it on days it works, but dump it like a bad debt on days when something else proves it's working better and glow costs us fish.
I've never found ANYTHING to be a sure deal in fishing, and glow has its place on the same list. I'll use it on days it works, but dump it like a bad debt on days when something else proves it's working better and glow costs us fish.
vaaler
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How deep are you fishing? My experience is the deeper you fish, the better glow works. In water under 50' my go-to color is rootbeer, but orange, green, and lots of other stuff works as well or better on some days. Glow wins (where I fish, anyway) pretty much all the time in 200' or more.
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Sounds as though you're fishing in July with the rootbeer, orange and green on your list. They're hot for us in July when the halibut seem to get onto small orange and olive crabs around here, and will outfish about anything. But when they're not on those little crabs we don't have much luck with them. Glow is also better in July than any other time of year. Since that's when a lot of folks do most of their fishing, it has quite a rep. But I've learned not to get stuck on it as I move around and the pages turn on the calendar.
In our waters we range from 250-300' early in the season up to as shallow as 20' in August. Same story from one end to the other. Try a wide range of colors including glow and let the halibut vote. VERY often a spot that seems barren suddenly starts producing fish with a color change. Blue and white, black and white or chartreuse and white are our usual best producers out deep through June. Come mid-September and later when they start moving back out deep, it's switch to blue and white or go home.
In our waters we range from 250-300' early in the season up to as shallow as 20' in August. Same story from one end to the other. Try a wide range of colors including glow and let the halibut vote. VERY often a spot that seems barren suddenly starts producing fish with a color change. Blue and white, black and white or chartreuse and white are our usual best producers out deep through June. Come mid-September and later when they start moving back out deep, it's switch to blue and white or go home.
kneedeep
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Glow works fine but in shallower waters purple haze is the ticket.
Fished a 140’ flat out in front of seldovia last week. Everything we kept was full of baby crabs about 1” across. Bulging with them.
I'm not surprised, but it makes me wonder how widespread it is. For a period of almost a month starting about now, the halibut really get on them over here on The Rock. It sure slows down their interest in herring and such while they're at it even if there's a bunch of bait around. The bite always seemed "off" in July til we figured out the crab thing. Part of the deal, maybe cuzz it's where the crabs are, they also move onto harder bottom in our area at least.
