On Friday 14 December 2001 12:33 pm, you said: > Hi does anyone have any experience with flashabou dubbing? I can't get it to stay on the thread. DonO's ice dubbing technique doesn't seem to work either. Once you mange to get it on it does form a very nice spikey & flashy body. Anybody have any ideas?
Just yesterday, I asked at my local shop a really similar question and got a demonstration: 1. Pull out one more or less continous blob of dubbing that is the length and volume that you want to use for the fly. 2. take this blob and get it to stick to the thread as best as you can using wax or anything to get it to stay to the thread. 3. Make a dubbing loop with the dubbing being one side of the loop. 4. Twist it up good and tight, and wind it on the body under good tension and twist. I use a dubbing hook that is made my the guy who showed me how, it allows me to spin a loop very tight, very quick. This is the best way of using a dubbing loop that I have ever seen, and I am using some of the most god awful dubbings ever greated with it, SLF is the one that I thought I would never beat, and today, I turned out 2 Skykomish Sunrise Speys with it, and they look pretty good, at least for a spey beginner. Rob -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA
