Fletchfishes 0 Report post Posted April 22, 2014 I tie a fair number of scud and caddis larva. Both seem like great opportunity to use UV resins. I'd love to see examples of members using UV resins. Scud and Larva in particular, but open to any solid use of UV resin. Most of my experience thus far with UV resin is to build heads on streamers and I'm looking to branch out! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
s fontinalis 0 Report post Posted April 22, 2014 Try thunder creek streamers. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flytire 0 Report post Posted April 22, 2014 any fly that can be coated with epoxy can be coated with uv resin streamers poppers bait fish caddis stoneflies midges fresh water salt water pike flies https://www.google.com/search?q=uv+resin+fly+patterns&safe=active&hl=en&gbv=2&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=K6pWU42yGYirsQS6qoDYCA&ved=0CAUQ_AU etc etc etc Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SilverCreek 0 Report post Posted April 22, 2014 Ants, spoon flies. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeBillingsley 0 Report post Posted April 23, 2014 Take a look at some of Davie McPhail's patterns on YouTube. He ties several caddis larva patterns with resin and they are great. I can attest that they work. Joe Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
switch10 0 Report post Posted April 23, 2014 I'm a big fan of UV resin on my midges. Here's a few lake midges in wine and gray. I used Silvercreeks crystal UV resin on these. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Preach 0 Report post Posted April 23, 2014 I'm a fan of Davie McPhail's flies as well. He has some UV resin patterns that work great. Look at his midge patterns... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Preach 0 Report post Posted April 23, 2014 Nice! Is there a video of this being tied? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
petegray 0 Report post Posted April 23, 2014 Sorry… No video… I'm digitally challenged and technologically impaired… 'oneoftheseDAZE... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fletchfishes 0 Report post Posted April 24, 2014 Wow - great patterns. Thanks! PeteGray - I'm curious to see how you developed the segmentation in that shrimp. Very impressive! Most of the Caddis Larva videos I've seen use the resin as a replacement for head cement. I was thinking one could use it as the primary body material - either coloring with a marker between layers or putting down some thread on the hook at the start - but haven't seen this approach in a step-by-step. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Preach 0 Report post Posted April 25, 2014 Sorry… No video… I'm digitally challenged and technologically impaired… 'oneoftheseDAZE... Please explain how you created the segments... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SilverCreek 0 Report post Posted April 28, 2014 I'm thinking the clear body is clear hot melt glue with wraps of clear monofilament while still soft to give it the segmentation, then coated with a clear UV coat. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
petegray 0 Report post Posted April 28, 2014 Insightful and analytical and that premise would probably work nicely... but I digress... The earlier suspect phly in question [with the pronounced segments] was done utilizing the rotary function of my vise... repeated beads of acrylic were applied and cured before it had a chance to flatten out... one layer on top of another, curing along the way, to build up the desired segmentations... a curious side effect: the clear acrylic seems to gather in surrounding light and reflect background colours… a bit of a chameleon… I personally prefer Bug-Bond Original with the ProTip for this exercise but any "thick" L.C.A. would do just fine… a while back I went through a pre-light-cured-acrylic "silly skin" stage… [soft translucent gummi bear like material]... after tying in the buggy parts I'd wrap the soft carapace shroud and use mono thread to achieve the desired segments... and then I experienced an epiphany... I discovered the inconceivable and illogical VooDoo acrylic light cured magic... I "SAW THE LIGHT" and the light was good [but don't stare into it!!!]... among other things, I manipulated L.C.A. to create the segments... It's all an evolution… Imagine the possibilities… to quote Charlie Chan… "mind like a parachute, only functional when open"...!!! consider the blasphemous thread free welded wide body tunnel hull teeny weeny streamahz... FYI: http://www.flytyingforum.com/index.php?showtopic=69862 That's my story and I'm sticking' to it... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SilverCreek 0 Report post Posted April 29, 2014 However you did it, the shrimp is a fantastic looking fly. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
