It's been our mission from the start to bring new ideas and fly patterns to fly fishing for Atlantic Salmon. From the "Top Salmon Flies" book, a fly called the Kursk got the most attention. Unconventional pattern mixing evolution with traditions.
A strike point or a fly patterns capability to "glow" in bad lighting conditions is for sure something most of us have experience in. Usually we just use fluorescent materials which reflect the UV light. Now we're super excited avout UV resins. With the UV resins it's super easy to add a strike point to any fly pattern's butt or head. You can even glue a whole body and whip out a pattern with couple of minutes.
Here's a few examples of last week's experiments
Olive Frances tied on a hook and head from Gulff UV Resin
Hook: Ahrex HR420G
Butt: Orange Gulff UV Resin
Rear hackle: Brahma hen
Tail: four light cock chalks and 4 fibers of Crystal Hair
Ribbing: medium silver
Body: Davy's bug dub light olive
Front hackle: Olive Brahma Hen
Head: Chartreuse Gulff UV resin
Green Butt, head from Gulff UV Resin
Hook: Ahrex HR420G
Butt: medium silver and Chartreuse UV Gulff Resin
Body: black dubbing
Ribbing: medium silver
Wing: black bucktail
Hackle: black hen
Weedlander, head from Gulff UV Resin
Hook: Ahrex HR420G
Tail: Chartreuse Fluoro fiber
Ribbing: medium silver
Body: pearl tinsel over chartreuse thread
Wing: underwing from chartreuse tempel hair, some chartreuse flash and overwing black tempel hair
Hackle: fluorescent olive pheasant
Eyes:jungle cock
Head: chartreuse Gulff UV resin
IntrudStyle Silver Wilkinson, head from Gulff UV Resin
Hook: Ahrex HR410
Butt: Pink Gulff UV resin
Tail: light blue tempel hair dubbed in a dubbing loop and wound over the shank as a hackle
Rear hackle: blue guinea over the tail
Ribbing: medium silver
Body: light pink SLF Poul Jörgensen
Wing: Pink tempel hair in a dubbing loop wound over the shank, topped with purple pheasant
Eyes: jungle cock
Head: orange Gulff UV resin
