Hi Folks,

Thanks so much for your information.

LF, I had Googled Poly X earlier and didn't have much luck finding the original stuff. I'm just not a very good Googler. I seem to get easily discouraged after a thousand or so incorrect hits. I can find modern Poly dubbing but not the old stuff.

Dudley, it sounds like Poly X wasn't intended for dry flies though I use it all the time that way. I guess floatants have improved a lot since the seventies.

John, it's very interesting that you found the same tubes with different stuff in them. Leiser's Poly X is definitely synthetic without a snip of natural hair in there. It's also notoriously monochromatic. I bet those tubes were used by a lot of companies before dubbing boxes came out.

Narcodog, will definely give them a try.

Thanks all! 8T