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[unome]

Oh no no no!!! I am not doubting the effectivness of glow material or saying that we should not use the new UV reflective materials. Perhaps I posted my information in the wrong post because I thought this was more in regards to the recent posts and confussion about UV light. The information above was from other websites so we must all add our grains of salt as needed. Never suppose to believe anything you read on the internet, right? :D From the websites I visited, they all said that the use of a black light has nothing to do with ultraviolet light being reflected but is used to detect materials that reflect flouresence. Since UV is outside the color spectrum, it is only viewed as light or dark and if there is any color at all, it is not a true representation of UV. Flourescent colors by them selves do not reflect UV light and will loose all visible color once they go deeper than 40' in the water. UV light from the sun penetrates the water deeper and will reflect off of the special UV materials no matter what color they are.

I got really interested in this subject after taking my children to a recent birthday party that was at a roller skating rink. They had black lights on the whole time and it seemed that everything was glowing! It got me wondering what was the big deal about UV if so many colors already had the same properties, but it turns out that color has nothing to do with it.

In contrast, I do believe that UV reflection could be a good thing, just sayin' there is not alot of research into it yet for fishing and hunting applications. In fact, we may use UV reflective materials and do not even realize it. Waterfowl have UV reflective feathers and there are many many reports of flank feather jigs being very productive despite their lack of natural movement in the water. Perhaps this could be some of the reason? Light charged "glow" materials are something totaly different and there are alot of glow painted heads in my personal jig boxes. They do work! But as of right now, I do not think I have any UV reflective materials in my fishing tackle other than jigs or flies that are tied with feathers that naturaly reflect UV. I will be getting some of the Pro-Tech UV Blast clear coat in the future and see how it compares, but that will be hard to prove that it works better.

Sorry if this is going off the original subject of this thread, maybe there needs to be a seperate discussion about this. The information that I found was very suprising to me and I simply wanted to pass it along. In reading some medical information about how our own eyes work, it makes more sense, but the fact is that no one truely knows how a fish sees. UV can not be seen by human eyes with out special equipment, so anyone can put a sticker on a fishing lure and say that it reflects UV light and there is no way to prove them wrong with-out scientific testing. Just something to keep in mind. Hope I am not confusing anyone. Cheers to the weekend - U

[skiptomylu]

The Black light simply lets us see that something is different that we can not see with just our eyes. Also doesn't mean fish will bite, but I believe at least there is a better chance of the bait being seen. I do kook if the fish don't see your jig/bait they will not eat it.

Also I have never said that the pic taken under a black light is what the fish see, and is just so we can see there is a difference in not only UV , but also Fluorescent colors and the black light shows us there is something different and more visible. Too many people think this is some kind of magic, it's not it's what we can do to see the difference.

Also it makes for very cool pictures and lets one see their colors different than what is seen in normal light. Black light is the only way we can detect anything about theses kinds of colors.
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[89ranger]

You make jigs right