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Veevus Body Quill Thread

Veevus Body Quill Thread

  • Veevus Body Quill Thread - innovative, versatile material for creating awesome-looking dry and nymph bodies, adding hot spots to your pattern, or enhancing the look and effectiveness of your fly.
  • Has a special iridescent, glittering, luminous effect that adds a bit of flash and attractiveness to the fly and acts as a trigger to the fish.
  • Translucent - it lets the light shine through, thus enhancing the realistic look of the fly and making the pattern more authentic and alive.
  • A super-versatile thread that can be used for both wet and dry flies.
  • Create super-realistic nymph bodies.
  • Create effective dry fly bodies with a killer iridescent effect.
  • Use it as ribbing material - get great-looking segmented bodies by using two colors.
  • Add it to heads or butts as trigger points.
  • Add glow to any fly pattern.
  • Synthetic, Mylar-tinsel material, multi-stranded, and very pliable.
  • About 2mm thick, it lays flat, allowing easy control of the thickness of your application, and can be used even for quite slender, thin bodies.
  • Works great when coated with UV resin - it enhances the color and creates a super-realistic, liquefied-looking body.
  • Extra easy to work with.
  • Comes in a wide range of colors.
  • 30m per spool.
  • See the Description section below for more details and a fly tying recipe using this thread.
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Veevus Body Quill Thread

Veevus Body Quill Thread is an innovative, versatile material for creating awesome-looking dry and nymph bodies, adding hot spots to your pattern, or enhancing the look and effectiveness of your fly. The thread has a special iridescent, glittering, luminous effect which adds a bit of flash and attractiveness to the fly and acts as a trigger to the fish. It is also translucent - lets the light shine through, thus enhancing the realistic look of the fly and making the pattern more authentic and alive. Adding more layers would provide a deeper color. It is a synthetic, Mylar-tinsel, multi-stranded thread, and very pliable. It is about 2mm thick and lays flat, allowing easy control of the thickness of your application, and can be used even for quite slender, thin bodies. This material works great when coated with UV resin - it enhances the color and creates a super-realistic, liquefied-looking body. This is a super versatile thread and can be used for both wet and dry flies:
  • Create super-realistic nymph bodies: midges, buzzers, chironomids, delicate smaller swing flies, Czech nymphs, Perdigon nymphs, etc.)
  • Create effective dry fly bodies with a killer iridescent effect.
  • Use it as ribbing material - get great-looking segmented bodies by using two colors.
  • Add it to heads or butts as trigger points.
  • Add it to a dry fly wing or tail to get some extra flash.
  • Use two contrasting colors and get awesome effects.
  • Add glow to any fly pattern.
Veevus Body Quill Thread provides a smooth finish and is super easy to work with. Comes at 30 meters per spool and in an extensive range of colors.

A great fly tying recipe

Magic Midge

For a full list of ingredients for the Magic Midge pattern, go here.

About Veevus Threads

Introducing Veevus threads, coming from Denmark – top-of-the-line quality threads with a wide selection of thicknesses and colors. An absolute winner when it comes to strength and versatility – all Veevus threads have amazingly high breaking points – well above comparable sizes of other threads out in the market. These threads are lightweight and considerably thinner than other comparable threads, but are strong and hold the material extremely well. They split easily for dubbing loops, lay on the hook well, don’t bulk, and are easy to work with. They stretch just the right amount and are spooled evenly providing the perfect tension, effortless whip finishing, and smoother tying. The spool was designed to fit snugly and turn smoothly. Due to their quality and versatility, Veevus threads are highly ranked in the fly tying community and are one of the best-kept secrets by fly tying masters.