Much of Saturday was spent sending out all the sample packets of dander I’d been promising those that had requested “Free Range” dubbing.
Reed Curry, author of The New Scientific Angling, Trout and Ultraviolet Vision, received his and was nice enough to send their UV footprint back for those interested in such things.
I was assuming that anyone receiving something other than they were expecting, and knowing they hadn’t ordered it, would pounce on the package and begin using it … I hadn’t thought that some households awoke to Christmas without the accompanying screams and rending of paper …
Visible light …
… and the above under UV light …
Visual.
… and he was starting to play fast and loose with the names, but I managed to catch “Dog Doo Brown” and “Focke Wulf Gray” before you lads started complaining you hadn’t seen that … and how I must be withholding the good stuff …
(Dusky Green above is actually Medium Green, my Bad.)
Dusky Green seems possessed of the most striking signature, given its lightness in direct light and darkness under UV. That’s surprising, although it’s got more than a fair share of yellow, which seems to react to UV with ferocity.
.. and UV ..
Still looks like Dusky & Pea Green possess a similar UV signature of Black & Claret, which I find surprising given the obvious yellows in the third grouping – I would have expected them to be darker under UV light.
Considering the UV component was completely ignored when constructing the above, it’ll send me to head scratching and scanning the negatives should some unnatural lust for Mystery Meat possess any known gamefish.
While I think it looks a lot like Livermush (Scrapple to them North of the Mason-Dixon), there’s no telling what our finned quarry thinks …
I received my “sample” yesterday. It’s great stuff, but you were much too generous.
Most of your sample was shredded cigar butt – which was the root cause of my generosity.
That explains the smell.
Does this mean you finally cleaned out the ashtray planter in front of your house?
As my lips no longer touch the “unclean thing” we’ve retasked the front door planter to what it used to do so well …
… collecting cat urine.
Did I mention “tabby” was one of the secret ingredients of Free Range?
A friend of mine has constructed a rather large X-ray machine in his garage to irradiate
the couple’s bedroom in the apartment below his. Said something about a screamer. Would you be interested in offering the first irradiated dubbing on the market? It certain to create a “buzz” around the product and think of the pictures.
Funny how that politically incorrect phrase, “They all,sort of, look alike.”, applies to Free Range under UV?
I have made a few of the best looking APs and freehand nymphs to come off my vice since this eye candy showed up!
I ignored the UV spectrum during construction, and many of the colors look remarkably the same under UV – despite wild differences in the visual spectrum.
As long as the fish think it tasty I’ll not lose too much sleep, however.
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