Seal Dubbing

All about flies Fly Tying
1

A thread on another page prompts me to ask this:
What trout flies do you tie using seal dubbing, or a substitute, as an ingredient :?:

Allan

2

Ive tied some wooly buggers using it, but it just did’t seem right. Salmon tiers use it alot.

3

nymphs - love it on nymphs - gives them the buggy look.

4

I tie one Salmon fly Nymph with it and a few soft hackles. The rest are all Atlantic Salmon Fly pattern’s. Still have a bunch of it from yeas ago. Ron

5

Hi,

I use seal fur for a lot of wet fly bodies (dubbed tight). Dubbed loosely on nymph thoraxes it gives a good leggy look. Also, on very tiny palmer hackled dries the long fibers of the seal fur give it a bushier, leggy, footprint without adding a lot of weight. I’ve tied up some smaller sized wooly buggers (size 10 2x hook) with it, and they looked really good, though slimmer than with cheneil. I lent one to my wife on one of our recent trips and in the discoloured water we were fishing she mistook it for a small fish a couple times. She was so impressed by that she hasn’t returned it! I use quite a bit actually, and it’s available here in all sorts of colours.

  • Jeff
6

I use SealSub on a lot of patterns, here’s two.
This (Rickards) Sealbugger is overdressed, even by my standards, but overall the fish seem to like it big. I use palmered orange dyed grizzle hackle to help hold it out from the shank as per his original pattern. In my opinion you can’t beat the Sealsub for life like movement.

Peter