ultra violet nail varnish

[humungus]

i was speaking to a fellow fisherman at the weekend and he swears by coating all his buzzers with this i also asked him if fish can see uv in daylight he assured me he spoke to bioligist and he said its fact yes so whats your views has catches picked up using this many thanks

[Country Joe]

I used to coat half my Buzzers in UV varnish, cant say if i noticed, if they gave me an edge over non UV.

[Silver Stoat]

Only very small trout can see UV. Once they get to about six inches long they will have lost this ability.

More information here - Salmonid Vision


Dave.

[iamasmith]

Fascinating article Dave, thanks for linking it.

It also talks of course about the Trout having better vision upwards because it's a surface feeder. Makes even more sense to get the landing net into the water early knowing that ^^

[stevekale]

"Search this forum" is your friend. Sometime you've just got to do a little looking around first.

Uv ?

[XL50]

I was talking to another angler last week regarding UV and fish. A few years ago I was fishing Morton at Livingston and was getting a few fish and many many follows using a orange and black Nomad. On 1 retrieve I noticed the UV shinning from the fritz body as most as I hung the fly waiting for a take. A few cast later I lost the fly replaced the fly with another Nomad which wasnt tied with the fritz Id used on the previous fly as I had used different fritz as I had ran out of 1 pack and changed onto the new pack whislt tying the Nomads. Well the takes stopped and so did the follows!! I believe UV is more crutial than the actual colours though I also believe some colours will give different degrees of UV light. Lets put another thought into this my wife and daughter used to breed chinchillas and show them at the show the Chinchillas was judged as to how it would produce a pelt!! And UV it transmitted was 1 crutial factor as to how good the animal was! All animls give of UV and all animals see it!! Why do patterns that contain natural bodies materials fish so well?? Adams, Kites imperial, P/tail nymph and Hares ear nymph etc to mention just 4!! This year Im tying 80% of my flies with natural materials.

Long winded but I hope it makes sense

[troutheaven]

It is well to remember that the term uv is a bit corrupted these days. Materials with that purplish flash are often referred to as uv when in fact they are not.

Uv is a light outwith the visual range of humans but causes materials with fluorescent properties to shine much brighter in its presence.

[Silver Stoat]

Originally Posted by XL50

On 1 retrieve I noticed the UV shinning from the fritz body .....

I think that was just wishful thinking I'm afraid. You may have seen some iridescence as the angle of the Fritz fibres changed but that was not UV.
The visible range for humans starts at 400 nm and this is too high for us to be able to detect UV.


Dave.

[stevekale]

Given humans can't see UV I doubt you saw anything UV related. Humans generally require a blacklight (and dim human-spectrum lighting) to see the irridescent effects of UV light on a compound such as nail polish - the glow-in-the-dark properties.

Also, one mustn't confuse all this with UV activated acrylics which are now being used a lot in the nail industry and have nothing to do with fluorescence.

Originally Posted by XL50

I was talking to another angler last week regarding UV and fish. A few years ago I was fishing Morton at Livingston and was getting a few fish and many many follows using a orange and black Nomad. On 1 retrieve I noticed the UV shinning from the fritz body as most as I hung the fly waiting for a take. A few cast later I lost the fly replaced the fly with another Nomad which wasnt tied with the fritz Id used on the previous fly as I had used different fritz as I had ran out of 1 pack and changed onto the new pack whislt tying the Nomads. Well the takes stopped and so did the follows!! I believe UV is more crutial than the actual colours though I also believe some colours will give different degrees of UV light. Lets put another thought into this my wife and daughter used to breed chinchillas and show them at the show the Chinchillas was judged as to how it would produce a pelt!! And UV it transmitted was 1 crutial factor as to how good the animal was! All animls give of UV and all animals see it!! Why do patterns that contain natural bodies materials fish so well?? Adams, Kites imperial, P/tail nymph and Hares ear nymph etc to mention just 4!! This year Im tying 80% of my flies with natural materials.

Long winded but I hope it makes sense

[REIDY10_0]

I must give the UV varnish a go this season, it makes sense to me.
The pigeon shooters use decoys marked with UV and i am told they also work better than normal decoys.

Munro