i coat my thread midges with loon flow instead of sally hansens. i tie a lot of cracklebacks with a tinsel body and no herl (guess it's not really a crackleback). like to coat the tinsel body with flow, palmer the hackle while the flow is still wet and then cure it. seems to aid in durability. build heads and coat the eyes on my baitfish patterns with loon thick and then top it with flow or silver creek to cut the tack. soemtimes use it in place of head cement. coat wing cases with it. etc. etc.