I first became aware of Vicuña Dubbing about five years ago when this dubbing material came to my attention on various flyfishing and flytying media pages.
Based in Essex Vicuña Dubbing is an entirely natural product made from Alpaca wool which has been dyed and processed by hand to achieve a dubbing which adds that essential buggy effect to your fly patterns.
I was very kindly sent some samples to try by David Lloyd to try back then.
I was very impressed with the material as a sub for seals fur and used it in quite a few of my loch style wets and cruncher style patterns.
I recall going along to a GAC Open day round about that time and noticed a few of the tyers were using this which at the time was a new dubbing material.
I particularly remember talking to Geroge Barron that day and we spoke about Vicuña dubbing and how impressive it was.
Since then I have used it off and on for a lot of my flytying.
At first I started collecting the basic colours for my fly patterns but as time went by I started blending different colours together to come up with some interesting combinations.
Over the last few years The company have put together some lovely blends too and introduced fine dubbing for dries and specially blended boxes as well as my favourite, the SLF Blends.
This year I have fortunately been asked to tye at the Scottish Game Fair at Scone Palace.
This event takes place in a couple of weeks time.
This will be my first time ever tying at such an big event in public and although I'm feeling nervous I am equally very excited to be tying alongside some very talented flytyers.
Whilst preparing for this event I was given some good advice and was told to relax and enjoy the experience and to tye what I do best.
Therfore it was an easy decision to choose and focus on loch style wets.
So with this in mind I thought it would be an ideal opportunity to once again highlight vicuña dubbing in my fly tying displays at the Game Fair.
I must thank David Lloyd at Vicuña Dubbing who has provided me with a box of their fantastic SFL blends which I will definitely be utilising at Scone.
In the pattern below I've dubbed the body with the Fiery Black SLF blend from Vicuña Dubbing.
The picture here doesnt do the material justice.
Best to see it first hand and you will appreciate the colours that come together to form the fiery black
If you are attending the game fair do pop along to the flytyers marquee and see the flytying demos. I'll be the slightly nervous guy tying loch style wets with Vicuña Dubbing.
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