The Hends Superfine is one I have a few colors of and use if I need to create a thin body for dryflies, or for slender nymphs/wetfiles that needs a bit of body.
As you can see: lot of thin, long fibers that makes it easy to apply to the thread
Maybe not the best of pictures, but you can see that you don’t need much to cover the thread
Dubbing a Mustad 9480 #14: it makes a slender body that doesn’t take much space
One of the good properties of the Superfine is the ability to create bodies on very small hooks: here is a TMC 518 #30 with only a few strands of the dubbing to create a tiny body
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