The Joy of Fly Fishing in New Brunswick |
| Fly Fishing Terms You Might Not Know Posted: 06 Dec 2011 05:49 AM PST  Image via Wikipedia In the world of fly fishing there are many words that are good to know. Some of the fly fishing terms are a bit unusual or may mean something else to most who don’t fly fish. Here is a list of some of the more unusual and double meaning words utilised by fly fishers. Action: an over-all term often accustomed to try to describe the design of the rod – such as sft, hard, slow, or fast Attractor: usually a bright colored fly that’s not usually tied so it imitates a specific type of food Belly: the sagging percentage of a fly fishing line Blank: a rod with out a handle, reel seat, or guides Blood Knot: the most popular name for a barrel knot Chalk Stream: a stream, usually found in valleys, that is spring fed and slow moving with plenty of vegetation Complex Hatch: the simultaneous hatching of countless types of type of insects Compound Hatch: the masking, or hiding, of an hatch of smaller insects with a hatch of larger insects occurring on the same day Cutthroat Trout: a genuine trout that is certainly found mostly inside the western the main United States Dapping: a fly fishing technique in which the fly is repeatedly bounced off and on of the top of the water Down Eye Hook: a hook which has the eye bent below the shaft Dropper: the secondary fly which is attached to the leader inside a cast of flies Emerger: a condition that is used to describe any insect that moves up towards water’s surface preparing to hatch in the adult stage Feeding Lie: the place where a trout goes into order to actively feed Flat-butt Leader: a fly utilized in fly fishing in which the butt section is actually created into a ribbon shape Freestone Streams: quick, tumbling streams with rock covered bottoms French Snap: a smaller clamp, often utilised by a fly fisherman to install his net to his vest Holding Lie: when a trout generally remains you should definitely actively feeding Leisenring Lift: an approach used in nymph fly fishing where the line is lifted, inducing the imitation fly to go upwards, in front from the trout’s suspected lie Midge Rod: a short, light weight rod Natural: – a full time income insect, in contrast to an artificial, or man-made, insect or fly Nymphing: any oaf the different fishing methods of which the fly fisherman presents an imitation with the underwater stage of your insect Presentation: the process of locating a fly the location where the fish is probably to see it; includes the way in which in which the cast in completed and the method in which the fly is fished Rise: the action of the fish taking an insect from the water’s surface Run: a condition used to describe a particular stretch of moving water Shooting: a casting technique Spate: high water Stripping: quickly retrieving line or pulling line through the reel Terrestrial: of or in relation to an insect whose life-cycle is completely spent on land or even in plants Waders staff: a sturdy rod about of up to the armpit of the individual fly fishing used by support in heavy water There are several words and terms which can be unfamiliar to many people but not to those who enjoy fishing. Related articles
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