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Where do you buy your glow in the dark hackle and chenille.

It's not glow in the dark hackle or chenille. It's just Fluorescent or UV color and when you use a black like it makes them glow so us humans can see it. Fish have better vision than we do. Example we can not see UV colors, but fish can so for us to see that UV is present we need a back light. The sun sends down UV all the time, but we can not see it. There are even some glue that will not cure until UV light is on it and this can be from a UV light or the sun.

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Hey thanks for the info skip I did not know. Where do you order some of your materials like that. I was trying to think of a way to enhance my chart colors alittle more.

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I am not sure what your asking about.

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It's just fl. materials. You prob already have some and don't know.
If you fish rivers, you have some.

MS is right and I feel sure most of you have at least some FL Materials. Just pick the color that have FL in front of them.

Was thinking about buying some of the Pro-Tech UV Blast powder clear coat so i started doing some net research into all the UV hype and trends in fishing tackle. From all that i have read, the pictures of fishing tackle 'glowing' under black light are a gimic to catch fisherman - not fish. Ultraviolet light wavelength is outside of the color spectrum so it is IMPOSSIBLE for the human eye to see unless the pictures are taken with special UV filtering lenses. UV is reflected by the make-up of the material, not by the color at all, and true UV is only seen as black and white so it would be simply seen as a brighter object than normal if the sun was shining. Kind of like someone had a flashlight pointed directly at it. In fact, black lights can even show the opposite effect of UV light that is being absorbed rather than reflected!

There is very limited research as far as to even what species of fish have the UV filtering lens over their eyes... some do and some do not. Trout seem to have the most proflic research into their UV vision. There is also a popular trend now with painting waterfowl decoys with UV reflective paints because it has been proven that many species of birds can see UV light very well and their feathers actually reflect UV. In theory, if the decoys on the ground are lit up with UV reflection as any of their fellow fowl would be, they may be more likely to mingle. ;) It all makes good sense, but it is hard to visualize without being able to see it for yourself and the photos taken under black lights are just not a true representation of what the fish and birds actually see.

All the information i obtained above was gleaned from different public websites on the internet, just want to pass along what i had found. If anyone else has any other sites or links to other information, i would love to read them.

Got to find where the fish are before you can ever convince them to bite anyway. :cool:

Do a Google search for glow chenille and glow flashabou. Then ask Ronnie Capps about glow lures.
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http://www.crappie.com/crappie/featu...glow-used.html

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

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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You make jigs right