Strung Fuzzy Fiber

SFF is one of several I’d recommend for the intermediate and advanced tyer to add to their tool box. I’m a fan of Steve Farrar’s Flash Blend.My first choice for Clousers is natural bucktail but we all know this natural material is close to impossible to purchase online these days. Bucktail also is difficult to work with on flies over 4” even if you can get the best.So long fibers like Farrar’s, EP and others are an essential if you tie big flies. SFF is a material with several uses, and I’ve found they are good for Clousers, certain Hollow-style streamers, brush spinning, and even Crazy Charlies. We fish coho salmon in the ocean here in Oregon, and the SFF hot pink provides the bright pink that is lacking from the Farrar’s line of colors. Using SFF for size 2 & 4 bonefish flies was an unexpected discovery, but I believe the material is a viable alternative to Kip tail, and provides consistent properties you can’t find in the kip tails these days, same story as with any natural fibers. A friend has been tying 4-5” baitfish flies for Baja Roosters — he discovered the SFF in white, tan, and olive to be an effective addition to the exotic mixture of fibers (like doll hair) tying hollow-fly style for both belly and back elements. The absence of flash is something he insists on, and he now incorporates SFF in nearly all of his Baja flies. I haven’t been fishing Clousers on the ocean or estuary this winter, but SFF in white, hot pink, and chartreuse seem as good or better than several other synthetics . Overall, I’d suggest watching some YouTube videos, then starting with your favorite two colors of SFF and do some tying experimentation . If you see the same usefulness that my friend and I have, you can expand your colors from there. Kindly excuse my grammar and spelling errors.