Just wanted to get some thoughts on painting jig heads with phosphorescent paint.

Firstly in your experience does it help?

My experience has been after some testing over the last month or so I think that a glow bead has increased my strike rate, but I don’t like the way it sits on top of a 90 deg jig hook.

I’ve painted some heads up with a mixture of Strontium Aluminate and epoxy resin. They glow like heck – way more than a glow bead - but now I’m wondering if I’ve over done it. I notice the lightbulb heads only have the eyes that phosphoresce.  Maybe I should tone them down for snapper?

I am very intersted in how you get on with the glow heads.

I use a lot of the propriety makes of glow jigheads and cyclops/captains jigs, and I also powder coat jigheads in various glow colours and have lumo painted some too - it keeps me busy when the weather is not suitable for fishing  Do they make any difference? I like to think so, especially in dull light or deeper water. I'm now trialing UV blast and will try it on plain lead jigheads too. Like a lot of fishing 'gimmicks' if it gives you a bit of confidence it probably helps if only psychologically - I've always maintained lures catch a lot more fishermen than they do fish

Just crickets there for a while, thought i was the only one doin it

The snapper over here in Perth is minimum of 500mm and the bag is only 2 fish, So you can see I dont get masive opportunities to test out different rigs.

The reason im thinking lumo is I mostly fish before dawn for a couple of hrs - sometimes for an hour after sunrise then make it into the office for a decent (ok then, half decent) days work.

Ive had some good trials cutting large lumo beads into quarters and supa gluing them onto the jig head, but that system wont last more than one fish.

I tried it out again today sounded one group of snapper but must have spooked them off, found a school of decent size kahawai.