Fly Tying Streamer Material

                                             
                             Polar Fibre                                  Poly-Bear Fiber



                                              
                            Slinky Fibre                                     Super Hair

The warm caribbean water slides gently around your ankles as you stalk a pair of silvery bonefish. The wind is up, but your powerful and precise casts cut through the thick tropical air with ease. Your guide intensely watches the scene - another false cast... NOW! You accelerate the rod to a quick stop, line shoots madly, and your Bonefish Clouser sails to the target...

Polar Fibre
Polar bear hair is a classic fly tying material in the saltwater fly fishing game. This material is an incredible imitator of saltwater baitfish, but can be extremely difficult to find and quite expensive. The best alternative for fly patterns calling for polar bear hair is Spirit River’s Polar Fibre. This synthetic fly tying material is ultra-soft, making it perfect for use in smaller to medium sized baitfish imitations. The softness of this material will impart amazingly realistic movement to your flies when wet. When using this material at your fly tying vise, experiment with prisma color markers for barring patterns and a more natural look.


Poly-Bear Fiber
At Leland Fly Fishing Outfitters we prepare our clients for any piece of water the planet can offer up. Some of our favorite challenges come from fly anglers interested in chasing really big blue water species on the fly. Billfish, dorado, marlin, and tuna are simply epic game fish on a fly rod. These species require large and convincing flies. Casting these fly patterns can be a challenge especially in the extreme and windy conditions found in the open ocean. Spirit River’s Poly-Bear Fiber is the perfect material for tying really large baitfish patterns. This fantastic fly tying material is strong enough and stiff enough to hold a profile, but light enough to maintain low wind resistance so you can cast the big flies to the big fish. The great length of this material also makes it the best answer for your larger streamers. Getting after giant tarpon and jacks in the saltwater flats has never been easier. At Leland, we’ve tied a number of flies for our blue-water-bound clients and Spirit River’s Poly-Bear Fiber has consistently yielded big results.


Slinky Fibre
Originally developed by fly fishing legend Trey Combs, the Sea Habit is a tremendously popular blue water baitfish pattern. It is traditionally tied with natural bucktail, making it a slim and attractive fly to cast. If you don’t have any natural bucktail at your fly tying bench or would like to try out a tough synthetic material for those patterns that get fished hard, Spirit River’s Slinky Fibre is right up your alley. These fibers are easy to manipulate and hold their shape, giving streamers the profile they need. Try this unique material out on your Sea Habits and Clousers – you’ll be far from disappointed.


Super Hair
When you need to tie streamer patterns with lengthy wings and poppers with longer, more textured, and flashier tails, you need a material that can hold its own. Spirit River’s Super Hair is a tremendous fly tying material designed to do just that. These long, textured fibers hold their shape better than other similar materials and can add length and movement to any artificial fly pattern in need of either or both qualities. Super Hair has even been designed to gather and reflect so much light that it creates a glowing effect at its tips. Now that’s what we call and attractive fly!