Natural dubbing
The natural hairs of different animals show their strengths here
- Cottoned hare hair
- Very soft
- Dry flies, emergers & nymphs
- Made in Italy
- Hare hair
- Very soft
- Easy to use
- Dry flies, emergers & nymphs
- Muskrat hair
- Water repellent
- Perfect for dry flies
- Quite soft
- Beaver hair
- Highly water-repellent
- Perfect for dry flies
- Made in Italy
- Deer & roe deer hair blend
- Highly buoyant
- Ideal for large dries
- Made in Italy
- Deer & roe deer hair blend
- Highly buoyant
- Ideal for large dries
- Split thread technique favoured
- Dyed elk hair
- Ideal for large flies
- Suitable for streamer heads
- Fairly stiff
- Natural elk hair
- Ideal for large flies
- Suitable for streamer heads
- Fairly stiff
- Chamois hair
- Thin and soft
- Nymphs, wet flies & streamers
- Made in Italy
The PRO NYMPH NATURAL dark dubbing dispenser contains a natural hair dubbing mix in 10 dark shades, suitable for building nymph bodies and thoraxes. This hair mix is quite soft and is easily attached to the tying thread with the wax provided. The hotfly dubbing dispensers contain 1 gram of dubbing in each compartment, which is equivalent to the amount of dubbing in a classic bag. Buying a dispenser saves you money compared to buying a single bag of each colour and having a good stock of product means that you won't easily run out of dubbing and will always have a wide choice of colours at your disposal.
NATURAL DUBBING
Natural dubbing is made exclusively from animal hair. As you know, every animal develops unique physical characteristics, to adapt to survive in the best possible way in the place where it lives. This is obviously reflected in its hair, which will become suitable for tying certain types of artificial flies rather than another.
For example, if you want to make a dry fly, it will be very advantageous to use beaver or muskrat hair, because these are animals that by their nature develop a waterproof hair that will consequently offer excellent buoyancy to your dry flies. Having said that, it is also possible to make dry flies with other types of dubbing with excellent results, but certainly when it comes to buoyancy, some dubbings have outstanding properties.
One of the most widely used natural dubbings is certainly hare or rabbit dubbing. Its fibres are short and very soft, and as well as being one of the very first hairs to enter the world of artificial fly tying, it is also one of the easiest to work with and therefore particularly suitable if you are a novice fly tier.
Except for deer dubbing, all natural dubbings in our online fly-fishing shop can be attached to the tying thread with the help of wax, or by manually wrapping the dubbing around the thread with your index finger and thumb. The latter solution makes the dubbing strand very compact. Once tied to the hook you can comb them with Velcro to make them fluffier.
As for the deer dubbing, the best solution for tying it to the hook is to use a loop assembly.
Thanks to the various dyes that are applied to the natural hair, there are many different colours of dubbing to suit the construction needs of fly fishermen. Although there are some very bright colours, natural dubbing always retains a very discreet appearance. This is essential when the fish is very suspicious and a very bright dubbing such as synthetic dubbing might scare them away.
