Glow beads for lures

olgrizz · 12-04-2009, 10:31 AM

Looking to find a place to buy glow beads to make kokanee lures. Know of RGT, is there any other good place to buy them? Also what are the main colors that you use for wedding rings. Do you think that brass and nickel work work better than the glow blades on this type of lure. Been out of kokanee fishing for about 30 years, just started fishing them again last summer. Read most of the posts here, but would still like some imput on the lures and color. Most people that fish here in Idaho use the squids instead of the wedding rings now, any reason for this? Thanks Grizz

Doc_Rhen · 12-04-2009, 01:48 PM

I look in every little tackle shop that I walk into for beads and sometimes I am quite surprised and which little hole-in-the-wall Mom and Pop shop has some of the rarest little items. As far as blades I have used primarily nickel and some brass but knowing what little I do know about kokes, there will likely be days (or hours in a day) that glow blades will outproduce metallic ones. My favorite glow bead spinner this year was green glow with a hammered nickel blade. As far as squids are concerned, like most things in koke fishing there are times when a dodger and a squid is the only thing they will bite.

twisted lines · 12-04-2009, 05:45 PM

Get some crappie tubes there cheap, but the dodgers required aren't. Hunt for Elktalkers posts & Pictures for the spinners, he is bowed down to by some of the best...

adobe wall · 12-04-2009, 06:36 PM

Fishermen's sells them. May want to try glo corkies as they glow brighter.

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Full_Monte · 12-05-2009, 04:34 AM

Go to a bead shop. You will find a LOT of different beads. I like the glass ones and the crystal ones. Look around and buy them on sale, or they can be a bit pricey.

Kokonuts · 12-05-2009, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Full_Monte

Go to a bead shop. You will find a LOT of different beads. I like the glass ones and the crystal ones. Look around and buy them on sale, or they can be a bit pricey.

Put some small size Spin & Glows in front of 2-3 Glow Beads with 2 red hooks then watch out!

....Kokonuts

fishbig · 12-05-2009, 02:01 PM

Check out Janns Netcraft on the internet they have what you are looking for. I prefer the Macks Lure smile blades they rotate at a lot slower speed which I prefer as sometimes the slower the better ! Good Luck, Please post pics of some of your creations

ElkTalker · 12-07-2009, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by olgrizz

Looking to find a place to buy glow beads to make kokanee lures. Know of RGT, is there any other good place to buy them? Also what are the main colors that you use for wedding rings. Do you think that brass and nickel work work better than the glow blades on this type of lure. Been out of kokanee fishing for about 30 years, just started fishing them again last summer. Read most of the posts here, but would still like some imput on the lures and color. Most people that fish here in Idaho use the squids instead of the wedding rings now, any reason for this? Thanks Grizz

Radical Glow sell the best glow beads I have found but they are more expensive. I had some cheaper glow beads that after a year no longer glow.

I use glow lures in low light situations like early morning, late evening, deep water, or in cloudy water. Most of my spinners are made in 4mm or 5mm beads but in cloudy water a 6mm center bead often works better.

Spinner blades change the look of your lure as it flashes through the water so you should have some glow blades and some nickel blades. Nickel blades cause more of a strobe like effect to your spinners and glow blades are always glowing. Larger blades slow down the strobe effect so I would also buy some larger blades in both nickel and glow.

Kokanee usually hit a hoochies/squids harder then spinners. I love fishing with hoochies, which is probably why you see more people fishing them. On my boat spinners are more consistent so that is why I have several hundred spinners and only 50 or so hoochies. If the fishing is slow or it drastically slows down I usually switch to spinners until I find a speed or color that starts working again.

Good luck ET,
Some of my glow spinners

HiTide · 12-09-2009, 09:13 PM

Elktalker, your second spinner pic appears to be made like a wedding ring with stack beads. Is there a source for glow stack beads? I've been looking for years.

ElkTalker · 12-10-2009, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by HiTide

Elktalker, your second spinner pic appears to be made like a wedding ring with stack beads. Is there a source for glow stack beads? I've been looking for years.

I found them on Ebay. Not the best quality beads but they work.

Sakana · 12-15-2009, 09:48 AM

E.T., would you mind posting a few pix on how you set up your hoochies. Just wondering if there are different ways fish them. Thanks.

SilverBullets · 12-15-2009, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by HiTide

Elktalker, your second spinner pic appears to be made like a wedding ring with stack beads. Is there a source for glow stack beads? I've been looking for years.

Macks has them

Fourteen · 12-16-2009, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Sakana

E.T., would you mind posting a few pix on how you set up your hoochies. Just wondering if there are different ways fish them. Thanks.

Here is FallRiverGuys set up
http://www.ifish.net/board/showthrea...light=hoochies

HiTide · 12-16-2009, 10:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Sakana

E.T., would you mind posting a few pix on how you set up your hoochies. Just wondering if there are different ways fish them. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by Silver Bullets

Macks has them

Thanks. Where do you get them? I've only seen Macks rigged gear in the store. Never seen there components.

SilverBullets · 12-17-2009, 07:20 AM

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Originally Posted by HiTide

Thanks. Where do you get them? I've only seen Macks rigged gear in the store. Never seen there components.

Go to their website and click on the online store, then go down to components. Also, e-mail them for a free catalog. In years past Mac's has had a booth at the Sportsman Show with a great variety of their lure building supplies.

HiTide · 12-17-2009, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Silver Bullets

Go to their website www.mackslure.com click on the online store, then go down to components. Also, e-mail them for a free catalog. In years past Mac's has had a booth at the Sportsman Show with a great variety of their lure building supplies.

Thanks. will check it out.

SilverBullets · 12-18-2009, 10:01 AM

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Thanks. will check it out.

No problem....while your at it also check out jannsnetcraft. Go to "lure making" ... bead section page 3.

fishbig · 12-18-2009, 10:56 AM

I had posted Janns Netcraft in an earlier post but have gotten in trouble for posting link when they are not members so I did not include the link.The same thing for macks lure???????????

Different rules now I guess

SilverBullets · 12-18-2009, 11:41 AM

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Originally Posted by fishbig

I had posted Janns Netcraft in an earlier post but have gotten in trouble for posting link when they are not members so I did not include the link.The same thing for macks lure???????????

Different rules now I guess

Opps... My Bad!