Hey, Fred...
What fly tying material is THIS stuff used in. I can only understand the phosphorescent material being used in plastics or some other manufactured material. I'm not aware of any - except the older, lower powered materials.
My question, very simply, is what materials is "proglow" put in that is a fly tying material??
Many, many years ago, I fished Catherine Creek, when it was prime water in the east for lake-run rainbows, with my buddy who lived close by. He made up some "Moonglow" marble-sized chunks of plastic (yellowish-green, it glowed slightly in the dark when exposed to light) in his kids' old "Thingmaker" (a kid's casting/molding kit for children). This was about in the mid-60s.
That was the answer that day in the muddy water - we had GREAT success, and my old glass flyrod was bent double most of the day. My old Pflueger reel got a good workout that day, too.
One guy was a pain in the butt - he stood downstream, in the middle of the stream, and wouldn't move whenever anyone had a fish on. After I lost two due to him standing there (they ran downstream around his legs, but he wouldn't budge), I hooked another, and it ran right between his legs. I yanked up violently on the rod, and the line snapped up in the vicinity of his "family jewels". Man, did he move then, and took a good flop in the snowmelt water! Cost me a good fish, but everyone had a good laugh! He came up spitting water, and coughing, and said, indignantly, "What did you do that for?" My response to him is unprintable, and I made some "unkind remarks about the marital status of his parents" as he stomped off to his car, and everyone streamside was roaring. Fishing improved for all after he left! :hehe: :hehe:
So I am a believer - it works well under the right conditions!
BobK