Semperfli Kapok Dry Fly Dub Flu & Nat

Kapok Fluoro and Natural Dispenser a blend of natural and fluoro
colours for hot spotting and it is the ultimate in dubbing for your
fishing flies as it is very buoyant – indeed it is known as life jackets
for flies! Kapok is a natural hollow fibre that when Kapok Dry Fly
Dubbing Mayfly Dispenser is dubbed into split thread it retains its
buoyancy and will help your dry flies float better than any other
natural dubbing- it is half the thickness of superfine dubbing!

Some
tyers refer to it as ‘instant moles fur’ or ‘moles fur in different
colours’ as its rather similar with a very short fibre. It is absolutely
ideal for tiny driy flies and great for nymphs. It provides perfect
definition on small flies instead of an ‘explosion’ of bulky traditional
dubbing on a small hook.

Kapok (Ceiba pentandra) is a natural
fibre, it has been available for many years growing throughout the
tropics where it is cultivated for its fibres. It is a
moisture-resistant, quick drying, resilient, and buoyant fibre and
weighs only one-eighth as much as cotton. Kapok has historically been
used in life jackets and life boats, supporting as much as 30 times its
own weight in water.

Traditionally Kapok is very difficult to dye
however the team at Semperfli have been working with computer based
dying machinery which has enabled it to bulk dye Kapok Dry Fly Dubbing
Mayfly Dispenser with repeatable colours every time. With Kapok Dry Fly
Dubbing Mayfly Dispenser fibres buoyancy is lost slowly, tests have left
it for days in test baths and it very slowly over days absorbs water.

Our
Kapok dubbing including Kapok Dry Fly Dubbing Mayfly Dispenser
available in a range of hot fluoro spot and very natural / earthy
dubbing colors have been defined to produce the best dry fly dubbing
available in the market.

Individual Kapok Dry Fly Dubbing Mayfly
Dispenser fibres are on average 1.8cm/0.7”, with diameters of 30 to 36
micrometres (a micrometre is about 0.00004 inch) making it finer than
even the smallest superfine dubbing, indeed HALF the thickness of
superfine dubbings on the market but with its unique extreme buoyancy.

This
comes in our low profile dubbing boxes. Each compartment contains the
same amount of dubbing that you get in a standard dubbing dispenser.