01-23-2014, 10:24 AM
Never seen the cheap ones, unfortunately.
What I'm doing now works for me, though. When you get fresh glow sticks, they're REALLY bright. I can easily see them from a good 50-75 feet away. Really important when you're making long casts.
The bite lights are pretty damn cool. They come with two different bases, so you can use them on smaller rods and the honking big surf casters most shorebound folks use for sturgeon. They have a little button on the bottom side that presses against the rod and turns them on, so you don't have to worry about the batteries draining on you.
When I'm fishing for crappie from shore in the spring and summer, I'll be casting one rod with a glow stick and have the other set up for cats with a bite light in a rod holder.
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What I'm doing now works for me, though. When you get fresh glow sticks, they're REALLY bright. I can easily see them from a good 50-75 feet away. Really important when you're making long casts.
The bite lights are pretty damn cool. They come with two different bases, so you can use them on smaller rods and the honking big surf casters most shorebound folks use for sturgeon. They have a little button on the bottom side that presses against the rod and turns them on, so you don't have to worry about the batteries draining on you.
When I'm fishing for crappie from shore in the spring and summer, I'll be casting one rod with a glow stick and have the other set up for cats with a bite light in a rod holder.
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