These glow sticks actually work well for steelhead driftfishing but the whole stick at once is definatly too much. I also use surgical tubing but I use the large black stuff and stretch it down over the glow stick until there is about a 1/4 inch sticking out. They really worked well in the columbia for the upriver brights in the 30-40 feet of water. I tied spinners with them as the body of the spinner. One trip I had out there I had a 4ft dropper then a alvin with a 5ft leader and above that about 3ft I had one of these homemade glow spinners on about a 2ft leader. I hooked three chinook on the spinner to one on the alvin that day.
They also make these sticks in red and blue, the red and green you can get at fishermans marine supply in portland but the blue ones I found in a bass magazine about two years ago and couldn't find anymore. The fish didn't really care for the blue though. The ones they really like are the red ones. Sort of like the vortex's!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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