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[C LeBo 0]

Hello,

I had been wanting to try my hand at some Glo- Bugs and finally got some Hareline Flo. Orange egg yarn, I tied some that were fishable (after a lot of trial and error). But when I went to go use em later, I found that after being in the sunlight for only about ten minutes they had turned a light chartruese color with an orange dot in the middle. It had a neat look, but not the right thing for trout, though it just might work for steelhead. I did a few tests and found that the whole darn package would change color if left in the window sill. But anyways, has anyone had this happen to them? Or maybe I just got a defective package.

 

Thank you,

Carson LeBoeuf

[JSzymczyk 0]

Sounds as if you got the egg yarn which is only supposed to be used for night fishing.

[sandflyx 0]

send it to me, the trout are loving that stuff here..I have some fl. orange dubbing that goes green in the water and the fish love it. I tie it on a small jig 1/80 oz.

[Peterjay 0]

Direct sunlight will bleach most dyes a lot faster than you might think. (just take a cheaply printed photograph and put it on the windowsill for a day or two and watch the results) If your material is drastically changing color rather than just fading, my guess is that it was dyed with a combination of colors, and one color is fading faster than the other. Either that or the yarn was dyed with a dye that's unsuitable for that type of material. Either way, you're better off keeping your flies and materials out of direct sunlight when they're not in use. BTW - you can get some nice bronze peacock herl by putting it on a windowsill until the color changes - just keep an eye on it.

[C LeBo 0]

Sorry Sandyflyx, but I think I'll keep the yarn for some monster slabside crappies here in California, they just love orange and chartruese. As for the color change, I think your right Peterjay about it being died mutiple colors.