North 40 Fly Shop eMagazine APRIL 2017 | Page 50

WRITTEN BY DILLON GIVEN This dubbing has become a shop favorite. We like to tie a lot of streamers up here in northern Idaho, and Senyo’s is my go-to material. With a large variety of colors on the shelves, this fine dubbing has made creating streamer heads easy. I like to think of lazer dub as a synthetic substitute for rams wool. If you are a believer of UV, each package is blended with thin UV fibers. However, this dubbing isn’t only for streamers. Lazer dub also makes a buggy dubbing for any nymph body. 50 I find myself applying strands of Predator Wrap to almost every streamer I tie. The material is 4-5 inches long, and comes on a string (similar to chenille), so you can wrap it if needed. More often than not, I cut the material off the string, and tie it in where most people use krystal flash. The Predator Wrap is thinly barred, giving your fly a more natural look. There is a reason that a fly entirely made a Kreelex was created shortly after the material hit the shelves. Although it isn’t barred, Kreelex does a great job of displaying a mottled flash no other material can match. Kreelex is a great substitute for flashabou when you find your flies getting a little stale. Check out Kraft’s Kreelex Streamer for motivation. 51