A loop dubbing technique

This process may seem complex but I'm trying to be as detailed as possible. It is helpful in that it avoids holding-open a thread loop and positioning the dubbing within the loop.

1. Starting with the thread at the point where you want to start dubbing, extend the bobbin about 8 inches from the hook shank and let it hang there.
2. Attach an EZ clip type hackle pliers to the thread about 3 inches below the hook shank and let it hang loose for now..
3. Prepare your dubbing noodle by spreading the material out on your bench top.
4. Pick up your bobbin with your right hand and lift it towards you with modest thread tension.
5. Now, place your left hand, palm up under the taut thread with the EZ clip hanging between your index and ring finger and let the bobbin hang loose over the side of your little finger (toward your body). Maintain tension on the thread between the EZ clip and the hook by pinching the EZ clip as it hangs between your fingers.
6. Now the best part. Pick up the piece of dubbing and lay it across the thread lying on the PLATFORM you have created under the thread with your index and middle fingers.
7. Pick up your bobbin, lay the thread up and over the piece of dubbing, keeping the thread tension the same as the thread under the dubbing and make a couple thread turns around the hook shank and lead the thread up to the hook eye.
8. Finally, pickup the EZ clip and maintaining slight tension, twirl it counter-clockwise looking from the clip toward the hook shank (for right handers).
9. Finish your dubbing wrap as usual. I have used this at my beginner's classes and it works for coarse and tight bodies depending on the material used and how tight you twirl the clip.

Hi Ray

just asking...but why make a noodle?

I'm not Ray, but it allows a plumper, buggier body.

Polly Rosborough wrapped his fuzzy nymphs with a dubbing loop but he used it as a counterwound rib which mostly got lost in the material. He started a dubbing noodle and tied it in with thread. Then he extended it by rolling more noodle.

This gave him the famous fuzzy look and made it durable. His noodle was wrapped on with nothing but dubbing material making up the noodle, no thread.

I would think the noodle would pretty much start out somewhat smooth just by it constructuion, rolled. Inserting spiky dubbing into the loop seems faster and would br more spikey depending on the material

i think if you put 5 tyers in a room and ask them to do a dubbing loop and then dub the body youll probably get 5 different ways to do it. all of them correct as they all completed the objective, to dub a fly body.

no issue with that at all... just seems faster to insert the dub,IMO YMMV