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I've compared Chadwicks, Semperfli, Jamieson's oyster and Berroco ultra alpaca steel oats and found Semperfli to be asgood as any of them for making killer bugs. The Semperfli product is readily available and reasonably priced. You can tie lots of killer bugs with a card of the Chadwick's 477 substitute.
This stuff is as close to the original Chadwicks 477 color as you're going to get. One could easily tie 100's of Utah's Killer Bugs with 1 yarn card. Makes really nice buggy bodies on other patterns if picked out as well.
A dozen Killer Bugs came together so quick with this material. Hold it with a hackle plier and wrap. Right before you start wrapping rotate the material counterclockwise (while in the hack plier and already attached to the hook) and you'll get a great segmenting on the body. The color is just awesome.
I compared the Semperfli Chadwick's 477 sub with the "real thing" and I am afraid it is far from close. Too dark, too brown. Berroco UAF 1214 is a much, much better sub. Nice try, Semperfli. I expected better.
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