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Thread: Luminous flys

  1. #1
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    Default Luminous flys

    Hi I was wondering does “glow in the dark”flys work
    for night fishing? Is it worth the effort? I used to put
    luminous beads on my traces when I was bait fishing.
    If there was one fish or rather nuisance that liked it,it
    was mr barbel.On the rest of the species I had no
    compelling evidence that it made a difference. I would
    really appreciate your input thanks.

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    I tied a few with beads and also with glow in the dark yarn. Never had any noticeable results on them to be honest.
    They do look pretty cool when you cast them at night though...
    You are a perishable item. Live accordingly.

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    Thank you for your input

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    Lumo flies are a big deal over in NZ at the stream mouths.

    Usually a woolly bugger type thing ties with a lumo bead and charged up with a flash gun. Fished on sinking or intermediate lines and stripped very slowly. Quite effective at times.

    I have fished lumo beads on salt flies and have found them to make absolutely no difference whatsoever, but to be fair, they were fished during day time and to a maximum depth of about 20 meters.

    We fish glow sticks on our broadbill drifts, but that's a whole new ball game and has no relevance on this fly fishing forum.

    Hope that helps a bit.
    Last edited by Kevin James; 04-06-18 at 01:55 PM. Reason: Typo

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