For ice fishing I have tried many of these glow-in-color glow pigments. I do not use the pre-mixed store versions and have/will use[d] only pure pigment.
The purple and red have been the best for me in that order. The standard glow comes next followed by glow orange. Then the blue and lastly the yellow or chartreuse.
At Glowinc.com, the ultra-green glow is dynamic for a glow color. Charged it will last for days. I use the head of a common pin to dip a wee bit of super glue and dot it on a jighead for eyes and then quickly run the head thru the ultra-glow pigment. This makes a small glow eye. I dot the fresh pigment again with surper glue to seal it. This is all it takes using that stuff.
Here's some food for thought on glow colors:
* glow colors may or may not have a regional productiveness
* glow colors do not charge well inside any sort of plastic package since UV filtering agents are common now in most packaging and it is the UV portion of light that charges glow colors
*keeping the glow lastics warm, as in a shirt pocket, during the cold weather use makes charging them much easier than when they are stone cold
* you can add the pigments to colored plastic however the colored plastic will be reflecting certain portions of the light used to charge the glow pigments and coloring agents may hinder effective charging and in fact hamper the glow pigments from deep inside the bait to show up. The lure color you are looking at in your hand is NOT going to be the color the fish see if glow in color pigments are in the plastic....they'll be seeing the glow color. Having coloring agents in the plastic may require way more glow pigment to do a good job, so why color the plastic. Its only pretty to your eyes
*The effectiveness of all glow colors will depend heavily on the water itself: how clear is it, what color is the water, is it dirty....etc
* the effectiveness of any glow product will also depend on sky conditions, time of day and the depth at which it is being used
* glow pigments and the tackle made using them originally came about as a winter fishing tool, however glow products excel all year long
If I am going to step up to a glow jig....at any time of the year....I will start with the standard ultra glow 95% of the time, even though the purple is my pet color, and I start picking apart the fish that are the highest in the water column using it. Next I'll try the red. Nine times out of ten as the green glow starts to slow down, a switch to the red will take off and I will work the fish a bit deeper into the water column using it. As soon as I get an inkling that the red is starting to wear thin with the fish, the purple goes on and the deeper fish in the area are sought out using it. The idea is to approach tohe top or upper layer of fish with the brightest glow since water up there will be influenced the most by natural light. As the chase leads to deeper water a more subtle glow is more preferable and red glow is next in line color-wise to offer that. By the time one gets down deep, the most concentrated likeness of UV is wanted since it simply is never seen down deep. How effective is the purple down deep? I have fished it thryu the ice using a Marcum flasher that showed no fish anywhere near the water under the hole only to have crappies rocket in and hammer the jig from several feet away. We've seen this on cameras too. Natural UV light we cannot see, however the crappies and other fish can. The glow purple is the closest color to natural uv the we can see so it makes sense that the fish see this far better than other colors in the deepest and darkest waters.
