The giant Salmonflies of the Western mountains are legendary for their proclivity to elicit consistent dry-fly action and ferocious strikes.
An alternative to using the UV coating and light is use clear 30 minute epoxy instead. I use epoxy when tying and coating a dozen or more flies at time. I coat each fly with epoxy and attach it to a foam disc mounted on a drying motor that I have for rod building.
I ordered a kit from Ebay immediately after reading your thread. $20 for the applicator, UV light, and two cartridges of product. I'm excited to try iy on the heads of my emerald shiners.
Eric,
REALLY nice ties, and I especially like the articulated sculpin- does it have a Fish-skull under the glue or is the head packed/trimmed deer hair, then glued over and smoothed?
I hope you like it Matt. I find it very easy to work with. If you don't, I'll buy what you have. I feel an amount of responsibility here ;)