diff --git a/bob/learn/tensorflow/network/VGG16.py b/bob/learn/tensorflow/network/VGG16.py
index f4e0d445e818d760291c3435137f54d19cc229f9..8b252ab3b41d48987e826c39650a9b47eed0f188 100644
--- a/bob/learn/tensorflow/network/VGG16.py
+++ b/bob/learn/tensorflow/network/VGG16.py
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ class VGG16(SequenceNetwork):
                  fc7_output=4096,
                  n_classes=10,
 
-                 default_feature_layer="fc7",
+                 default_feature_layer="fc8",
 
                  seed=10,
                  use_gpu=False):