Semperfli Kapok Dubbing

Kapok Dubbing  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 Dubbing  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 Dubbing with repeatable colours every time. With Kapok
Dubbing 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 Dubbing available in a range of very
natural / earthy dubbing colors have been defined to produce the best
dry fly dubbing available in the market.

Individual Kapok Dubbing  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.