Question for the old guys!
Way back in 1974, I splurged on a huge assortment of dubbing from Eric Leiser's Fireside Angler before it become a bookstore. Since dubbing boxes were only a gleam in the eye of materials distributors, each color of dubbing came in its own medicine-bottle like tube with a white cap embossed with a green mayfly. The dubbing was called Poly X and Eric hand wrote the dubbing color on each little Poly X label. I've used this dubbing frequently for both wet and dry flies because it dubs easily and and I have a tube full of every color, hue, and tone detectable by a well-trained human eye. My question is this, does anyone, with a better memory than mine, remember if Poly X dubbing was originally sold as a dry-fly, wet-fly or multi-purpose dubbing. BTW, those tubes packed a generous amount of dubbing and most are still at least half full. Thanks in advance for your input. 8T
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