INOVA Glow in the Dark Pop Up Beads

Overview

The INOVA Glow in the Dark Pop Up Beads are a floating attractor bead designed for UK sea fishing, combining ultra-buoyant lift with a luminous glow finish. Part of INOVA's K-NECT range, they are finished in a distinctive Glow White with Red Dots pattern, often referred to by retailers as the Lady Bird design to distinguish them from INOVA's other glow beads.

Each pack contains 10 beads, and the range is built as a floating/pop-up attractor bead rather than a standard rig-building bead. They are available in two sizes — 6mm (product code 200067) and 10mm (product code 200068) — allowing anglers to match bead volume to their chosen bait presentation.

INOVA lists the Glow Lady Bird beads separately from its standard Yellow, White and Red Pop Up Floating Beads, reflecting the added glow function that sets this version apart from a plain coloured pop-up bead.

Perfect For

These beads are intended to be threaded onto the snood above the hook, in a typical arrangement of rig swivel, snood, Glow Pop Up Bead, hook and bait. Their buoyancy lifts the hookbait clear of the seabed, helping to keep it away from crabs and other bottom-dwelling bait thieves rather than lying flat on sand or silt.

The glow-in-the-dark finish makes them especially relevant for night fishing, dawn and dusk sessions, and deeper or darker water where a luminous target close to the bait can aid presentation. They can practically be incorporated into a wide range of UK bait rigs, including flapper rigs, paternoster rigs, scratching rigs, single-hook rigs and pulley rigs, provided the rig arrangement allows the bead to sit near the hookbait.

Technical Insight

By pairing an ultra-buoyant construction with a glow finish, these beads perform two distinct jobs at once: physically lifting the bait off the bottom and providing a luminous visual point of interest in poor visibility. Positioning the bead directly on the snood above the hook — rather than elsewhere in the rig body — keeps both the lifting effect and the glow concentrated exactly where it matters, right next to the hookbait.

The two sizes offer different characteristics for rig building: the 6mm bead suits more compact bait presentations, while the 10mm bead gives a more prominent visual component and greater physical volume. Manufacturer data on exact lifting force and glow duration is not published, so bead size should be chosen based on presentation preference rather than a specific quoted performance figure.