Adding a glowing strip to topwater fishing patterns will change the way you experience night fishing. Being able to see your fly lets you fish structure and banks with greater accuracy. Casting over streamside obstacles, around trees, and into narrow pockets becomes tremendously less frustrating. Understanding river currents, presentation angle, and how retrieves impact your fly on the water in real time results simply in more opportunity at fish. Not to mention how cool it is to watch that little glowing spot disappear into the jaws of an unreasonably large Brown Trout...
Do not be fooled by other "glow in the dark" resins, sheets, or tying products. I create a special concoction that is painted on white foam and contains many times higher glow density than anything else you can find. After charging and 30 minutes in the dark, these glow tabs are still easily visible in the dark from 50 feet away. Some other products make unreasonable claims about how long they last, but all other glowing fly products I have been able to get my hands on have needed charging every 5 minutes or so to be visible.