Hi Wes, I bought some fluorescent red edge bright. I use it to substitute the red surveyors tape for the Surveyor.
A couple of comments: 1) Once you trim the strip narrow, the edge brightness diminishes. This is based upon the "strength" of the glow reduces with edge length. 2) When wrapping don't wrap flush or else you lose the brightness. Wrap onto itself, exposing the edge. 3) The best effect that I found was to wrap a base of holo tinsel underneath the edge wrap. This was the effect I was looking for. I will hold off on buying other colors until I fish what I have tied. Obviously I have not yet fished these flies, so I have nothing to say on general effectiveness. Thanks, Chris. -----Original Message----- From: Wes Wada [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 12:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [VFB] Edge Bright Hi All, Has anyone used a product called Edge Bright for tying flies? Have you heard of anyone having any success with flies tied that way? Any online references? Edge Bright is the fluorescent-appearing thin transparent plastic that has a very bright cut edge that acts as kind of a light pipe. I can get a quantity of this stuff in fluorescent red, but don't really know if it would be useful in steelhead patterns, midge larva or whatever. I did know of a friend who was experimenting with salmon patterns with this stuff, but that was a while ago and I don't know if there was a positive outcome. Wes Wada Bend, Oregon
