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Just been thinking of different ways to attach them to the rod or the line to see when you might get a strike at night. How do you guys go about doing this? To the rod? Wrapped on the line so it falls when you get a run?

This is mainly for fishing off the beach if it makes a difference

horse51 · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 11:25 pm Post subject:

im not sure if it weakens my line or would increase a breakoff chance if i do get a big one but i just twist a glow stick on/in my line with a couple of slip knots (if thats the correct term for the knot i use) when i want to reel it in i just untwist the glow stick and reel the line in. of course these are my shark rods.
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Mandimae · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 12:04 am Post subject:

I have a little sensor that I attach to the end of my rod for night fishing. It will either beep or a light will start blinking when I get a hit. I don't know if it would be too sensitive for surf fishing but they're cheap enough to get one and try it out.

http://www.cabelas.com/other-fishing-tools-berkley-pole-tap-electronic-bite-detector-1.shtml

That's the one I have for catfishing at night.

Even if you just attach one of those tiny glow sticks that they have for the lighted bobbers to the rod tip, you would be able to tell if you got a strike. You could just use a little rubber band, placed so that it wouldn't catch the line.
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Texican · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 1:03 am Post subject:

Went fishing with a friend one night on "The Wall" at Calaveras lake. Most everybody was gunning for redfish. The most popular method was to charge up a glostick, put it inside a .5 liter water bottle, attach the bottle to your line and let the wind drift that sucker out.
Was pretty cool to see an assortment of red, green, blue and yellow lights floating off in the distance at night.
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Gatorgar · Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 1:16 am Post subject:

Scoth taped to the line. If you get a run, the light will go into the water. When it hits the tip on retrieval, it will either slip down the line or the tape will lose its adhesiveness and fall on its own.
Don't wrap it up entirely, rather place the light under the line and use just enough tape to come mostly around the light, but do not overlap it.

Atleast that is what I do, but I only been doing it a couple months...so am still a googan Confused