Beaver is a great natural dubbing, it's translucency offers a tyer opportunity to change the color of the fly by playing with different thread colours as the base color. Chop up some Angel Hair flash and blend it with this beaver dubbing in a coffee grinder this will add flash to your patterns . The guard hairs have not been removed from this beaver nymph dubbing, this will add that spiky effect you are looking for in a dubbing.