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There is a fishing flea market guy that sells them in quantities of 50 for about $20. Same guy with the hookless diamond jigs, rubber shads, bulk bluefish hooks, etc.
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Well Neil the old big glow sticks were the ticket in the canyons for Swords and tuna. they with out a doubt work. the big blue ones were the best in color. use to put them down under the thermocline and get some nice swords. Once had a 500lbs take it. the fish never made it in the ****pit but it was a monster!
Well Neil the old big glow sticks were the ticket in the canyons for Swords and tuna. they with out a doubt work. the big blue ones were the best in color. use to put them down under the thermocline and get some nice swords. Once had a 500lbs take it. the fish never made it in the ****pit but it was a monster!
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The flea market deals are on the little lunker light type glow sticks, not the swordfish size. One is smaller than a cigarette, the other bigger than a cigar.
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Hi Izzy,
How are you?
Searching the internet, trying to buy wholesale the best I could do for small glo sticks to use for fluking and weak fish was about a dollar a piece. Too much $$ for me to lay out and give to customers. Cheap me was hoping to get them for about .25.
I have fluke fished in the dark and caught them. They are predators and are active at night.
Capt Neil
How are you?
Searching the internet, trying to buy wholesale the best I could do for small glo sticks to use for fluking and weak fish was about a dollar a piece. Too much $$ for me to lay out and give to customers. Cheap me was hoping to get them for about .25.
I have fluke fished in the dark and caught them. They are predators and are active at night.
Capt Neil
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how about blues/stripers?
Never new anyone actually used glow sticks - I was thinking of giving it a shot last season; was doing some trolling at night for blues/stripers and thought it might make a good addition to umbrella rigs. Anyone tried anything like this?
Jon
Never new anyone actually used glow sticks - I was thinking of giving it a shot last season; was doing some trolling at night for blues/stripers and thought it might make a good addition to umbrella rigs. Anyone tried anything like this?
Jon
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I've used the little sticks very successfully chumming blues. And seen big and little sticks slay tuna.
On Ebay, I believe that they sell a lot of seconds with a significant failure rate. For this purpose, if the price is right, who cares.
On Ebay, I believe that they sell a lot of seconds with a significant failure rate. For this purpose, if the price is right, who cares.
while at Smiths Point in late August we were bored from no action and i decided to throw the glow stick onto my line ontop of the sinker and casted it out into the darkness...you cxan see a cool aura in the water fom the stick and i did score a coctail i dunno if it usefull or if it scares away fish but it was funny as **** for some reason...
GLOW STICKS...THEY DO MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
The Cyalume glow sticks we commonly see, were big sellers down in SHEEPSHEAD BAY about ten years ago. Seems guys on the night bluefish boats, noticed a big difference in the amount of bluefish they caught. So Mikes Tackle, stocked them for both the party boats and their customers. But at one point, John one of the owners, found a place up in Canada selling them for under the wholesale price that he bought them for, and he ordered loads of them, which he sold for less then the price you could buy them here in the U.S. Well i believe the company, which might of been American Cylume, found out and sent a cease and desist (it was as thick as 2 telephone books!)order forcing Mikes to stop selling the Canadian made sticks, which worked incredibly well! What ashame, because their was a big difference in the price, and really no difference in the quality, other then the package it came in.
Anyway, i have used them when commercial fishing down in Virginia for Sea Bass at night and they did make a difference. I would suspect for any type of fishing they would work. The commercial longline swordfish industry has shown us how well they work, so why not use them for other types of fishing we do inshore.
One thing about buying glow sticks off ebay. I have a box of them sitting in my basement that a friend at work purchased and gave me....yes he got a great price, but the sticks were only a few months away from their expiration date! Yes they would work, but you only had a few months of shelf life! We use cylume sticks on our life vests at work, and when they expire, you throw them out. They do go bad, and the chemicals inside the tube, do weaken over time.
EC NEWELL MAN*
The Cyalume glow sticks we commonly see, were big sellers down in SHEEPSHEAD BAY about ten years ago. Seems guys on the night bluefish boats, noticed a big difference in the amount of bluefish they caught. So Mikes Tackle, stocked them for both the party boats and their customers. But at one point, John one of the owners, found a place up in Canada selling them for under the wholesale price that he bought them for, and he ordered loads of them, which he sold for less then the price you could buy them here in the U.S. Well i believe the company, which might of been American Cylume, found out and sent a cease and desist (it was as thick as 2 telephone books!)order forcing Mikes to stop selling the Canadian made sticks, which worked incredibly well! What ashame, because their was a big difference in the price, and really no difference in the quality, other then the package it came in.
Anyway, i have used them when commercial fishing down in Virginia for Sea Bass at night and they did make a difference. I would suspect for any type of fishing they would work. The commercial longline swordfish industry has shown us how well they work, so why not use them for other types of fishing we do inshore.
One thing about buying glow sticks off ebay. I have a box of them sitting in my basement that a friend at work purchased and gave me....yes he got a great price, but the sticks were only a few months away from their expiration date! Yes they would work, but you only had a few months of shelf life! We use cylume sticks on our life vests at work, and when they expire, you throw them out. They do go bad, and the chemicals inside the tube, do weaken over time.
EC NEWELL MAN*
Glow in the dark party...
Try the stores that sell supplies for parties - I've gotten good deals on the small glow wands. You can't be picky but you can sure get them cheap if you hit it at the right time. They make glow wands, rings, tubes, etc.
For the tuna/sword sticks, Lindgren-Pittman Co. has bulk quantity cheap but you have to buy by the hundreds. They are a commercial gear supplier specializing in longline equipment. I only use a couple of dozen a year tops so it would be impractical to stock the garage with them. Anyone interested in making a buy and splitting them up?
Try the stores that sell supplies for parties - I've gotten good deals on the small glow wands. You can't be picky but you can sure get them cheap if you hit it at the right time. They make glow wands, rings, tubes, etc.
For the tuna/sword sticks, Lindgren-Pittman Co. has bulk quantity cheap but you have to buy by the hundreds. They are a commercial gear supplier specializing in longline equipment. I only use a couple of dozen a year tops so it would be impractical to stock the garage with them. Anyone interested in making a buy and splitting them up?
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