I go against the grain a bit and dress some pencils as well. Sparsely tied so it doesnt effect the cast. Everything else besides spooks gets some bling. Hell even one spook has a very sparsely tied red bucktail siwash and the fish love it.
I dress all my siwash, none of my trebles. A nice set of white hackles on the back of a squid darter looks sweet. Same on pencil poppers. A nice dressed tail is almost always on my pencils. To each his own.
"Out there in the surf is where it's at, that's where the line gets drawn in the sand between those who talk fishing and those who live it."
- a wise man.
I like a big barbless single owner( sharpened to scratch glass ) with sparse grey hair on pencils. Keeping the mid treble. Doesn't miss much. The action is fine