Jens Pilgaard

	My name is Jens Christian Pilgaard and I was born 1954 in Denmark. I started tying flies in 1986 and in the following years I did this on a “fishing” level. Then in 1995 I thought it could be fun to participate in Mustad Scandinavian Open tying contest and did so for the next 3 seasons. Here I was fortunate enough to achieve some bronze, silver and a single Gold medal . Since then I have been tying flies at shows in different countries like Denmark, Norway, Sweden, UK and USA. Those of you who have seen me tie in the past years at these shows know me for my little Origami Wings for dry flies, superrealistics and nymphs, but I am also very fond of tying the old classic salmon flies. I am also known to a lot of you as the owner of Fugl & Fjer Fluebinding www.flytying.dk , selling fly-tying materials. Some of you might say that my shop more reflects my interest for the classics than the dry flies, since I mostly deal in rare feathers and bird skins. Besides my fly-tying, I make a living out of forging Viking items like swords, axes and other things that can be forged by hand. I make knives and Viking silver jewelry and a million other things related to Viking age, plus I do seminars within this area, such as forging and building knives, Wilderness seminars in Norway etc. etc.. Some of this can be seen on my other webpage www.knifeblades.dk I look forward to see you at the show where I will be demonstrating my Origami wings for fishing flies. Thank you for you attention Tight Lines Jens Pilgaard a.k.a. ”Sindre”