Glowing Material
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I just picked up all the different colors of glow in the dark flashabou that Wapsi has. I was wondering if anyone has use an of it. I was planning to use mostly on streamers, but will also use it for backs on pheasant tails. Also I would like to know what you guys feel is too much glowing material. I’m looking forward to hearing peoples thoughts.
-Mike
I tried the glowing material both at night and in the daytime with streamers and waking night fly patterns, and had terrible luck with it.
Have some photos? Michael
I would love to see how they looks like!Maybe try some Jellyfish pattern? ::), swing in the dark!
Mike:
I have used a glow-in-the-dark material for the top side (or underbelly) of a clouser on trout waters. Works for me in the spring. How much would depend on the type of water you are fishing. Less in clearer, slower water. More in heavy current. I usually don’t mess with charging it up, I just like the whitish color for the underbelly of certain streamers. Makes a nice clouser.
Scott
PS I also tied a big streamer with it once to go in a fly plate for our TU chapter. Thought it would be cool to have a glow-in-the-dark fly in the plate to freak out the winning bidder first time he or she walked past it in the dark.
Here is a tube fly that I tied up using the glowing material. The top wing is all glowing material along with some strands coming off the back.
Neal, Thanks for the link. I do a fair amount of salt fishing myself, mostly flats. The eyes are from Wapsi. These should work, http://www.kaufmannsstreamborn.com/Catalog/Fly-Tying-Supplies/Materials/Eyes/SRI3DEYE/ Good luck with the bones.
Luminous flies have been popular in New Zealand for night freshwater fishing around stream mouths in lakes for many years. Recently materials containing UV reflecting properties have become very popular in the daytime also.
I incorporate both into fresh and saltwater patterns and they certainly take a lot of fish… how many would not have taken them had they not had these properties I am unsure.
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Neal, I used zap-a-gap on the eyes. As for painting the eyes, I use model paint, then will put a coating over it to stop it from chipping. Try the finger polish though I’d be interested in how it turns out.
Neal,
I agree with Michael… you need to use another material to cover the model paint/nail paint… otherwise they are very easy to chip off… If your flies hit rocks, it get worse… I use Epoxy to do a final coat… much stronger…
Talk about UV and luminance… I agree with Clark about the night time fishing specialty.
To my knowledge (from what I know in light spectrum), luminance under daylight won’t get extra reflactance from the material, because the sunlight is too strong and the luminace materials special property would be fully covered by the sunlight (sunlight’s reflectance is way more stronger than the light shed from the materal per se)…. this means, don’t pay extra money with something that doesn’t make any difference, if you only fish under the bright daylight condition.However, in the night time, the low luminant property of these material become more prominent … I think they will attract somebody’s attention (fish/fisherman).
For some blue/purpleish materials, they always have some UV reflectance, especially the blue/purple color always extend into UV region. e.x. Blue Jay’s feather have a lot of UV reflactance. And fish did see UV very well, in general…heres the standard everglow fly
heres how to tie it http://www.akflyfishers.com/everglow.html
for saltwater I tie a leftys deciver with a white glow bug yarn tail a white everglow body and a bunch white everglow wing in the topping…
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