Johan's Blog

Want to give yourself a nice present for father’s day? Or just because you think you earned it?
Have a look at this then.

My good friend Andre Miegies is beside a very skilled flytier also a good fly-tying tool maker.
His tools are all handmade and he use the most beautiful pieces of wood.

He made these three tools specially for me, a dubbing needle, a brush and a tool to get small CDC feathers in the MPJ tool.
There a lot of tools in stock but if you want it custom made? it’s no problem.
If you are interested in the tools you can contact hem true his site http://www.andremiegies.nl/index.php/fly-tying-tools or send him an email at ajmiegies@ziggo.nl

Today framed my Artflies and update the list.

click on the picture for more info.

These days everything seems to be ‘’nano’’ nano rods, nano reels, nano hooks and now we also have nano silk tying thread.

I was the lucky one to do some testing with the new nano silk tying thread.

I got some samples from The Essential Fly, Ann was king enough to send me some to do pre testing the silk.

I must say that I am very surprised, if you thought Nano Silk was good at 12/0, you will be amazed at the new Nano Silk ULTRA at 18/0 (30 denier)! Still super strong and available in 10 colours it is ideal for small flies in sizes from 16 to 32.  You can split it further if you wish to form dubbing loops and still avoid build up and still tie with little threat of fly breakage. I had the small range hooks for a long time on my Tying desk but never used them because the tiny flies I tied always end up bulky. So if you want to tie as small al possible here is the thread to use.

It will be launch in April but you can pre order trough this link !  http://www.theessentialfly.com/nano-silk-gsp-gel-spun-yarn-fly-tying-thread.html

If you want to see the other great stuff that have? Than have a look over here. http://www.theessentialfly.com/semperfli-fly-tying-materials-home.html

Here are few examples how small you can go without building up bulk.

If you click on the picture you find the step by step of the shrimp.

click the picture for the tutorial.

Article/SBS JP Wings Daddy long legs is online, cilck on the pic for the tutorial.