luminous leads

while stewarding the interprovincial youth championships earlier this year i saw one of the leinster team with a glow in the dark lead weight it looked around 4 or 5oz.dont think it was home made as i think it had the manufacturers stamp on it.does anyone know where to get these?? :?

Most of these are home made. The plastic paint is bought in powder form, the lead heated and coated with the stuff (much the same way as car/bike parts are powder painted). It's called Coat 'n' Catch in Gerry's of Morecombe and can be bought in 1lt pots. A lot of boat anglers also use them, some with multi coloured weights.
Damien

i know a lad that has bought them abroad- can't remember where though. he swears by them at times. u'd think breakaway would start makin luminous plastic heads for their impact leads too?? handy for castin at night and finding stray rigs!!

yes mark, i think they were a foreign make.was just wondering if someone stocked them over here anywhere. i do colour a lot of my own leads using plasti-kote paint from b&q, and on certain venues and species these can make a difference.

[m.b3]

what colours? when? why??? do u use bright colours for flatfish or do u try and match the colour of the seabed to hide the lead?! if i see him again i'll ask em where. i reckon the luminous fella's are good for drawing fish to the baits. a new shiney lead will sometimes get attacked by fish on retrieve! i've even had a scorpion fish attack a 3oz in preference to the bait one day, fishin in a rockpool!

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Mark,

I have a few of the plastic covered leads that the European anglers use. The reason behind the plastic has nothing to do with attracting fish, its to keep the lead content out of the water, an environmental friendly thing over there, there is talk of them being law one day, over here too.

Tom.

When I asked some of the lads that were using why they did, their reply was that they reckon the bright big lead will attract the fish to the area where they then will home in on the baits attached to the hooks. Not sure if it works but I have coloured some of mine and am going to try them out on the next boat outing.
Damien

dtsacs,

I'm not saying they wont attract fish, I was given some from a friend who fishes for England, he got them a couple of years ago when they fished the world championships, most of the European teams were using them, some are luminous and some are a solid colour, red, blue, white and the green luminous are the colours I have. None are grip leads, they are all plain bombs with the long tail.

What I am saying is, when asked the reason for the rubber coating the answer he was given, was to prevent the lead from getting out into the water.

Tom.

Anyone remember that fella in sea angler using what he swears is THE set up for flounder in his area? The ENTIRE trace length was beaded with large bright yellow and green beads, from the top swivel to the lead clip, and with a big luminous weight.

Flounder are incredibly inquisitive fish. I only realised this a few years back when spinning with a mepps in a donegal estuary. Almost every cast was followed by a flounder right to the rocks at my feet.

I'm not saying this will work everywhere, but it's certainly worth experimenting with.

yellow, orange or red leads can work for inquisitive flounder on certain days when bites are shy but on other days they can spook fish.i want good luminous leads for coalies whiting and dogs at night.

that's not all they work for Phil :wink: !

i have fished with quite a few beaded rigs for different fish. i don't particularly like the look of them in my rig wallet but will always have a few in there. i have fished a few sessions with clear rigs and a beaded version. sometimes the beads put fish off, sometimes it makes no difference and on some days the beaded rigs have dramatically outfished plain rigs, taking all the fish! some really good anglers reckon they are rubbish and don't bother with em, but i still have em in the rig wallet.

Mark,

Personally I think beads work more often than not, the first thing any bait, lure or method must catch is the angler, once your happy with what you use time will tell. To often anglers say fish are not there when they are but just not feeding. I know anglers who have taken fish on beads only, no bait at all.

Years ago when WD40 first started being used, some anglers would not use it on their reels in case it put fish off. I know anglers who spayed it on bait and took fish on it, in fishing every Ying has a Yang, if you trust what you use it helps.

When the fishing is hard, the guy who catches the most is the one who will try different methods until he finds one that produces.

Tom.

i can well believe that Tom. beads, attractors, etc. can be used to entice fish to feed when they are not really in the mood, sometimes!