Body Materials

SEMPERFLI Tying Wire 0.2mm (Fine) is a fly tying wire, non tarnishing and perfect for chironomids or buzzers and nymphs and as ribs on salmon flies and streamers. Measuring 0.2mm or 0.008 inch diameter the non tarnishing means it can even be used in saltwater. 

Our spools have a removeable cap to re-trap the wire once you have removed a section to tie your flies.

Rather than cutting simply wiggle in a helicopter motion and it will break, saving damage to your scissors

There are 20m / 21.8 yards (approx ) per spool of Wire 0.2mm.

Many fly tyers love tying with Stripped Quills. Perfect Quills are a synthetic alternative, which provides the perfect quill every time which has a premarked black edging and looks natural. Natural Quills can be difficult to get hold of and the quality can be inconsistent. Natural Quills are often brittle and hard to use – you may have tried soaking them and experienced this first hand? No longer. Here you have Perfect Quills. 

Perfect Quills have been developed in two versions – True Colors and Transparent.  For the transparent quill anything tied below the Stripped Quill shows through, from threads to tinsels to a fluorescent thread.

Size small best for hook size #12 and below.

There are 25 quills per pack. Each quill is 100mm in length (you can get 2 flies per quill depending on your fly size.

We recommend a layer of clear Thin UV Resin over the quill.

Perdigons were first developed by the Spanish competition team but have become incredibly popular since and are now integral to fly boxes of tyers and anglers worldwide. A Perdigon fly typically is easy to tie and is designed to sink quickly. But you need a good selection of colors that have the right look for the perfect Perdigon.  This is why Perdigon Body was developed.

Perdigon Body is different compared to other tinsels because of the translucence. 

Technically speaking Perdigon Body is a 1/69”/0.37mm body material.

The Double Barrel is an innovative, modern, soft-foam popper body that makes it easy to tie the most popular popper, slider, and diver flies being used today to target various species from panfish to sailfish! It has several unique design advantages over other popper bodies and is available in a comprehensive range of sizes and colors, allowing you to tie a full spectrum of flies. The versatile foam head can be tied on with the cup facing forward to create popper flies, and can be tied on in reverse to create slider, diver, and Sneaky Pete style foam flies. 

 Quantity per pack: Extra-small, Small, Medium (8); Large (6); Extra-large (4). 

Extra-small:  Length 13 mm x Width 10 mm x Height 8 mm. Fits #8 hooks and 3 mm eyes. 

Small: Length 16 mm x Width 13 mm x Height 10 mm. Fits #6 hooks and 3 mm eyes. 

Medium: Length 21 mm x Width 17 mm x Height 13 mm. Fits #2 hooks and 4 mm eyes. 

Large: Length 27 mm x Width 20 mm x Height 18 mm. Fits 2/0 - 4/0 hooks, 28 mm shanks, and 6 mm eyes. 

Extra-large: Length 33 mm x Width 27 mm x Height 26 mm. Fits 4/0 - 6/0 hooks, 40 mm shanks, and 8.5 mm eyes. 

Example:

This is quickly becoming our favorite material for tags and ribs on hot spot nymphs and other applications where we historically used thin strands of floss.  

No tyer can be without a range of fluoro threads in their tying kit and Fluoro Brite is a great choice. Fluoro Brite is a twisted fluorescent thread. To get it to lay perfectly flat simply untwist with your bobbin holder. Fluoro Brite has been specially formulated for fluorescence and comes in 240 denier (3/0). Fluoro Brite, used as a thread or a floss, is recommended for hooks 10 to 2/0 but if you want to use it for smaller flies simply split it down further. Use it as a hotspot, for ribbing, a body or even a fab hot spot tail!. For tails we fold Fluoro Brite four times in a loop and tie it in the tail of a fly, cut to length then tease the fibres apart with a dubbing brush and you get an astounding crinkled tail with what looks like little firelights on the tail of your fly.

Since Joseph Keen's book - Fluorescent Flies (1964) and Thomas Clegg's book – The Truth About Fluorescents (1967) fly tyers have been working with fluorescent materials. We decided to make a fluorescent thread with advantages that it could be used as a tying thread or as a floss, could be untwisted with the bobbin and used as a floss. Fluoro Brite was born to be different. What is well known is that fluorescent materials do attract trout, salmon and other species. We cannot see material effects except under a UV torch where we see the glow. But with their visual rods and cones capable of seeing into the UV spectrum many fish species see this like a light in the dark. Fluorescent materials work well one hour before daylight and one hour after nightfall. This is because even though we cannot see them, UV rays from the sun still hit the water and ignite your flies.

There are 25m / 27.3 yards (approx ) per spool of Fluoro Brite

Classic Waxed Thread 12/0 70D been designed specifically for fly tying for midges, emergers and dry flies and is recommended for hook sizes 10 to 20. Many tyers are moving to our 12/0 thread in preference to traditional 8/0 because it is still strong with a breaking strain of 489gm (17.25oz) but presents a thinner profile thread. This thread lays flat with a two core construction but can easily be split to create dubbing loops 

Classic Waxed Thread 12/0 is the Rolls Royce of tying threads. Benefits include: