New items to consider

Just received a few items from Devin Olsen at www.tacticalflyfisher.com, Veevus Body Quill in various colors, this new product will allow you to make very thin life like bodies on nymphs, emergers and dry both duns and spinners just use white thread as a base and over wrap this to give your bodies a really good depth and life like appearance, comes is some great colors. Another product is Veevus Iridesent thread, this is what I have been using on most of my spent wing midge patterns for 30 years but finally it now comes on a standard spool, it is an iridescent threat that when used as a body will bring life to an otherwise dull looking fly, just catches light at the correct angles to appear to be moving! I bought this in a sewing store years ago and it came on some really weird spools that needed a special bobbin to be able to use it, thanks for the new upgrade to normal spools. I also just got some Semperfli Straggle String to fool around with- looks like ultra small crystal chenille , will make for some wild caddis emergers. Give this fellow a try his speed of delivery it just great and he offers some really new items and has some nice video's of new patterns.
  I have also been using some new Hends S10 barbless scud/Czech hooks and have found them to be a good quality and really sharp. One note the other week I was using some new Tiemco Comp. jig style hooks and found them to be sharp as heck but it was almost dam impossible to get a trailer hook tied on because of their sharpness and the fact that the black finish on them is just so darn slippery they make tying and improved chench knot a must and if it is not tied well it will in fact slip!  I did find that it was a little easier to fish a good run without getting hung up on the bottom because the hook rides point up. I will try to attach an article by Devin about how to tie the wing case on top and not worry about tying it on the bottom, his logic makes sense as does his use of black nail polish to make wing cases! Sorry can not figure out how to get the article attached so please check out his web page. Want to fish in a Winter flood- try today.
   Also check out www.flytying123.com some good stuff. Also Fly vs, Jerks is back with season 7 and the first episode was just great, just Google it and sit back an enjoy.