When using a mohair, pig wool, seal fur, seal sub, chopped wool, etc, you can take your pinch of fur and chop it with scissors into around 1/4-3/8" long clumps. Use really tacky wax and roll you dubbing on the thread then, it take a little getting use to. But the reward is, well what you see above. Clean not overly furry dub bodies. Sinkers....
Yes the old loop, I've never been able to produce super sparse dub bodies with loops, I think its my fault, I get a little over zealous on the dub or the dub is too sparse and I see thread... Either way not the result I desired.
I've seen and read it is sometimes recommended to trim hackles along the top or to bind them down so as to make room for the tented wing on speys the same way it is sometimes done with collars and salmon flies. It is not necessary and doing this will throw the balance off by having more materials along the bottom than over the top and the fly swims hook pointing sideways or up: Very unnatural. One can move the hackle out of the way and they will return to their natural state - but not if trimmed or bound.
