I've been looking for more information and reviews on the various brands of UV resin, and came across this:
http://www.flyfishfood.com/2015/10/uv-resin-shootout.html
http://www.flyfishfood.com/2015/10/uv-resin-shootout.html
Pretty much. If I'm tying a fishing fly it doesn't need to look cool but catch fish. I'm not really so sure a head coated with UV resin works that much better than Sally's. However, as fly tying is a sort of "art", whatever you want to use is fine with me.One word...
"Sally Hansen's Hard as Nails"
Ya I know, but you get the drift.
I dunno, I'm partial to L.A. Girls quick dry top coatOne word...
"Sally Hansen's Hard as Nails"
I was in L.A. once...some of the Girls are cheaper!!I dunno, I'm partial to L.A. Girls quick dry top coat
only cause it was cheaper....
in all honesty though, if I'm building up a head on my salty flies, I love Silvercreek's stuff...works great for my needs...my LA Girls stuff is great for finishing most of my smaller flies just to make sure they don't come undone...
Haven't found odor to be an issue in regards to fish catching with either Hard as Nails or UV cure. Prior to using UV I damn near bathed the diamond braid on clousers with Hard as Nails.Quit using SHHN because of the odour.
I don't know about the fish reacting to it but when I open a flybox and think I'm standing inside a beauty parlour, I'll opt for less smell!
That was a lot of tying for not caring...Okay.... as far as I can tell, Loon won his shootout.
However, I'm not all that concerned with the durability test. The flies I tie with a UV coated head do not slam into anything hard... seldom do I hit them with a hammer. I guess it might be a consideration if I fished rocky rivers but I don't.
Smell? Well, I don't know how the products smell underwater so I don't know if that makes a difference to a fish or not. Yes, yes, I know, fish have a very good sense of smell and the reason the bass guys spray smelly crap on their lures but I don't know if the smell of a UV coated head on a fly underwater is significant enough to turn the fish away from the fly.
I know what we, as humans, can smell in the open air but I'm not so sure fish smell the same thing underwater.
That said, after reading the article I plan to trash all my UV resins and buy a boatload of Loon products
Not really... to tell you the truth, I'm not all that obsessed with the characteristics of UV thread coating resins...but it is an interesting article.
Bet ya get skunked too...If the smell of SHHAN turned off fish then I would never catch a damn thing. I swear I put about half a bottle on every Clouser I tie.