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Originally Posted by PALMERS TACKLE
Tommy is right about the uv blast ---in regards to overpowering standard glow--if used on a base white color the effect can be good on certain days
but will and can decrease a standard luminescent glow..one way i found to top coat glow is to thin the UV BLAST with a standard acrylic clear sealer at a ratio of 3 parts acrylic 1 part uv blast.
Another method i found works ok is to just put a strip at the bottom or on top of the jig and leave the rest your base color.
It is expensive and very ,very time consuming to do uv i have found it does help on certain days but for my product line the benefit doesn't justify the cost to my end users. Just too labor and material expensive. The offshore and chinese producers of Uv jigs have a big advantage over US guys who try to do UV..they have significantly lower material cost and the shipping here is considered hazardous material so freight in large quantities is very high.
I have noticed in my experiments with uv that only sunny days in a much clearer water does it do well..cloudy days or cloudy water the standard glow has outproduced every time..i might be wrong but i think the uv is activated better in and on sunny clear water days.
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Tony hit it on the head. Sunny bright days will work best. I also agree with Tony about the strips and maybe a pattern with the UV Blast stuff too .
You do not want to drown out the jig so its glowing violet and no other colors coming through. That is where the jig makers who know the deal here are doing better than others.. But as Tony said... its a botch and eats up so much time.
Use the "UV Index" for sun burn. Weather people always give the UV Index with the reports. They rate it on a scale of 1-10. The sun is our biggest producer of UV Rays. The stronger it is..... the better it reflects.
I did the UV thing for about 3.5 years.... I can tell you I saw a big difference. Maybe its the type of fishing I did..... I dont know. But UV Blast is going to over power the jig and needs to be weakened or less of it used on the jig for maybe a belly stripe or something as Mr. Palmer has mentioned.
1st pic here of skirts, you can still see the patterns and colors for msot part.
2nd photo here, you see how the UV formula over powers all of the color or pattern. It has totally blocked out the black viking jig below. This is too much...
