Leaderboard

If you're looking for really bright florescent coverage, a white undercoat or primer will help greatly, especially with chartreuse. Light coats and heat set in between as mentioned above. I reduce the paints quite a bit for spraying over foil, so I don't kill the shine. Little at a time and heat set. It's easy with reduced paints or transparents to spray it too heavy because you can't see the pigment as well.

The fluorescent colors I have are from Golden and I think Spectra are thinner than Createx. As far as coverage, make sure you are mixing the fluorescent colors really good before use. Chartreuse and pink are infamous for pigment settling/hard packing. Once throughly mixed build up the color with layers. Spay, heat set, spray again until you get what you’re after. As for painting over holo tape, yes you can. Just go lightly over it. Test out a few blanks with varying amounts of paint and clear coat. This way you can get a feel for how much paint you need. I would also suggest consider spraying alcohol ink over the tape. Very little is needed and it gives the bait a nice look. See attached photo.

After a fish bit off the curl tail, I fished just the body and was shocked how many fish were caught on it. (note the chartreuse body's color was altered using markers.) Then I started to fool around with different mini-stick shapes that did just as well: Doesn't take much rod tip/reel handle action and a child could catch fish with them. Something to think about when it comes to simple baits that catch fish and fishermen.