Buggy rubber legged dubbing

[Uncle Jesse]

I remember seeing some dubbing with little pieces of rubber mixed in it. I was thinking of cutting up some of the smallest rubber leg material I had and trying to mix it into to some dubbing. Has anyone tried this previously? What were the results?

[flybugpa!]

works great for streamers, i get mine from Fly Tyers Dungeon already mixed

[herefishy]

The little pieces of leg material are the very finest that can be found - lots easier to get it already mixed.

[EdD]

I remember seeing some dubbing with little pieces of rubber mixed in it. I was thinking of cutting up some of the smallest rubber leg material I had and trying to mix it into to some dubbing. Has anyone tried this previously? What were the results?

Uncle Jesse, I tied up some flies made with wire under bodies. The bodies were mini centipede leg material caught in a dubbing loop and worked over the wire. Everyone who saw them liked them. They were last seen gracing trees alongside the main branch of the Au Sable River in Michigan. One never made it into the river. Therefore, I can't tell you if they would have caught fish...

Ed

[Uncle Jesse]

Ed, I am sure there are large trout that hang out underneath those trees waiting for the "bugs" to drop into the water and probably spiders have broken their beaks trying to devour them.

[herefishy]

I just wonder - how many fish do jump out of the water at those wayward bits of our invention hanging just above their noses? More, I guess in the spring when the water is higher. An interesting aside to this was the poor hopper fishing in Colorado this year, at least where we were, attributed to the water being so low that the hoppers fell on the shore rather in the water to get the fish to notice them.

[ScottP]

Buggy rubber legged dubbing - say that 5 times fast!

Regards,
Scott

[Mark Vendon]

Hi Uncle Jesse,

Not sure if you're really looking for the name or not, but it was rubber dub dubbing. Site is http://www.dougswisher.com/dubbing.htm

Regards,
Mark