Ducksterman, after learning the 'add some dubbing' trick I have been successful making rubber/dub noodle from thin medium and small size rubber, leg material, from micro size rubber legs (the thinnest I could find, about the thickness of fine ribbing wire) and from 'tentacles' , 'centipede legs' and 'ultra floss'. All seem to work with the addition of some dubbing. I have been using coarse dubbing designed for leach patterns, and a product called 'crawdub' which act a lot like mohair dubbing.

The smaller stuff is more time consuming, do the the fact that each strand must be cut to length and placed on the dubbing block seperatly, lots of pieces to handle.

The 'tenticales' and 'ultra floss' seem to work best, this material is much stronger than rubber and seems to be more limp, perhaps it will impart more action.

I haven't had an opportinuty to fish any of the bugs yet, so I still don't know what Mr. Brown will say about my efforts.