Painting my Tailor Lures with Lumo

Last week I ordered some fluro pigment ( glow in the dark ), when I get it in the mail I am planning on painting some of my tailor lures with it. I got idea from fishing with Gillies whitebait lures at night, these lures have a small strip of lumo on the bottom and the tailor, snook and herring seem to love them. I got further inspiration from a doco I was watching about filming Giant Squid. In the doco the crew were using a new type of camera called starlight cameras, they see the bioluminescence amitted by most fish and the smallest creatures such as krill ect as the fish swim through the water disturbing them. I have also been looking into bioluminescence a bit and I have found that scientists are just starting to do research into which fish can see it. I figure since Tailor are predators and do most of their hunting at night they too might see bioluminescence so I am going to paint these lures to try and mimic this to some degree. I will post back on here the progress I make or don't make and let you all know how it goes.

 

 

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good idea

Thu, 2012-11-15 12:09

good idea

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U can get the spray for squid

Thu, 2012-11-15 12:30

U can get the spray for squid jigs, hit them with uv and they glow. Duno bout tailor doun most their hunting at night, I never find it hard to get them during the middle of the day, they prob just swim around with their mouth open at night haha. Same theory works with placcies at night, glow bead on leader or glow placcies

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You will mostly get them at

Thu, 2012-11-15 17:02

You will mostly get them at night off the jetty. When the water is choppy in summer quite often they will be on the chew for most of the night. I have had most sucess at night with the large tailor, I am land based though, can't really get to the good reefs that the boats can get to durin the day. 

The paint I got is in a powder form that you mix yourself, I am going to mix mine with rod varnish. I have got a lumo sqid jig and I find it works quite well, I prob will smash some squid on the painted lures as well :P

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Jetty lights? Prob attracts

Thu, 2012-11-15 18:21

Jetty lights? Prob attracts the small start of the food chainers along, be good spot to cool down on a summers night 

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The jetty lights attract the

Thu, 2012-11-15 23:58

The jetty lights attract the yellowtail, herring and mulie schools. Yeah the busso jetty is a great place to cool down on summer nights, it gets quite cold out at the end at night no matter what time of year it is.  I have heard ppl laugh at me while I have been walking out for taking a heavy jacket on a 40c day but I know better then to go out the end without warm clothes. Those cold blowy nights where most ppl would run back inshore are the best ones for catching the big tailor. So many times I have been the only person within sight ( 500 mtrs or so ) because of the cold wind, they are the best nights for it.

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If you do get onto a hot

Thu, 2012-11-15 13:06

If you do get onto a hot session (at night...maybe during day even?), try comparing the same lure one lumo one not, see if theres a real difference. Be interesting to see results

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I am keeping a few unpainted

Thu, 2012-11-15 16:54

I am keeping a few unpainted for the day time. I was throwing them around at night a few months back with varing sucess. The clear Blues code went ok under the jetty lights but mulies definatly are king of night time. I hope to land some big ones on the lures at night in the big tailor summer months.

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I read an article recently

Thu, 2012-11-15 21:58

I read an article recently somewhere about the lumo glow of some plastics.

The S-Factor Goo glows as does the popular soft plastic colours.

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Update :I got the glow powder

Sat, 2012-12-01 03:42

Update :

I got the glow powder a week ago and have been experementing with it quite a bit. After talking to a few people around town and watching a few youtube's I came to conclusion nail polish is the way to go for mixing the powder. I purchaced a 14ml nail polish bottel and mixed 7g of powder in it. I selected several lures; waxwing boy, the smaller wax wing, blues code and 2 gillies white bait metals. Next I spraypainted the waxwing lures white. I then painted my lumo mix onto all the selected lures giving them 2 coats. I also purchaced another waxwing later and gave it 1 coat. The glow the lures give out is very good.

I have been fishing with the waxwings and the gillies whitebaits at night and have found they work quite well so far. The gillies has been hooking up herring in the dark beond the range of the lights. I fished with the waxwing late in the arvo today, it could be seen quite easily in the murky post storm water and the snook could not leave it alone. I also stoped near the start of the jetty for a throw of the waxwing on my way back in tonight and the chopper tailor were smashing it. That is one crazy lure, especially when it is glowing.

 

 

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Took the lumo waxwing for a

Sat, 2012-12-01 21:40

Took the lumo waxwing for a fish down the road at another location away from the jetty on sunset, the tailor could not leave it alone, it glowed very nicely in the murky water, stood out like a saw thumb.

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