With that price point you can buy a really nice deadstick rod like the

Dead Meat Rod
https://shop.clamoutdoors.com/jason-mitchell-dead-meat-rod.html#182=

and save yourself $80, any ice rod at the same cost as the snare rod’s should catch fish for you.

The Dead Meat Rod comes in the lengths you desire too.

Bass Thumb wrote:

I’d consider phosphorescent glow paint, even just a tiny bit under the epoxy of the tip guide. If I were a rod builder, I’d give it a shot.

I put some on gunsights this year and it actually works. Even the tiniest amount of ambient light makes the sights glow; for example, the last minutes of legal hunting time. I think the light off your sonar would cause it to glow really nicely. I’m just not sure about the longevity. Some say it doesn’t last long; other say it does.

I worry about it cracking on such a sensitive blank but i will definitely try it, If it works it will come out pretty bad ass.

Thanks for the reply’s, im definitely going to experiment with all of the suggestions given.

Thank you!, have you had any issues with the paint cracking off the blank?