I am not familiar with the Orvis, but I have purchased other brands where
the container holds about 16 diferent colors, with a hole in the bottom of
each so that you can tease out the dubbing.
My biggest complaint about them is the amount of dubbing of each color. It
is really small. for a few cents more they could fill these things up, but
they want you to come back for more.
That being said, if it is a product that I do not use much, like angora
goat, and sow bug blends, it is worthwhile. But dubbings that I use a lot,
like adams grey, callibaetis, light yellow, etc, I go through the tiny
amount they give you in a hurry, and it ticks me off.

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Hi all,

I'm a new fly tier, looking to build up my dubbing collection. I'm
looking at getting Orvis' Spectrablend dubbing assortments -- one for
dry flies, one for nymphs, and one for caddis - which it seems would
cover the entire spectrum of what I might need, and in handy little
containers no less.

Any opinions? Is this what I want, as a good base collection of
dubbing materials?

[And to be clear: I'm not too worried about having a few colors that I
don't use. I've already had the frustrating experience of sitting down
to tie a fly and not having the proper dubbing color, and it's worth
$45 (3 assortment collections @ $15 per) to me to avoid this in the
future.]

Thanks for your thoughts...

- Tim