Fly Fishing Terms- 30 Common Terms You Should Know
Fly fishing involves a quite many conventional terms which should be known by every fly fisher. Most of these words have varied meanings and are unusual when referenced to the art of fly fishing. The list below would manifest a few of the unusual words often used by fly fishers.
Action
Action is a generic term usually used to describe the rod’s feel; be it slow, hard or soft.
Attractor
Attractor is an intensely colored fly which is not often tied so as to imitate any particular variety of food.
Blank
Blank is a rod which has no reel seat, guides or a handle.
Belly
Belly is more of the sagging part of some fly fishing line.
Chalk Stream
It is a stream that is often found in the valleys which is always slow moving and spring fed with heavy vegetation.
Blood Knot
Blood knot is another name for the barrel knot.
Complex Hatch
The hiding or masking of the hatch of small insects by another hatch of larger insects occurring on the same day is a complex hatch.
Dapping
Dapping is a fly fishing method where the fly repeatedly bounces off and on up on the water surface.
Cutthroat trout
It is a true trout which is commonly found in western parts of the States.
Down Eye Hook
It is a hook having an eye bent below the shaft.
Emerger
Emerger is a term for describing an insect which moves up to the water’s surface with the preparation of hatching into the stage of an adult.
Dropper
Dropper is a secondary fly which is attached to the leader in the cast of flies.
Feeding Lie
It is where the trout goes, so as to actively feed.
Freestone Streams
They are tumbling, fast moving streams with a rock covered bottom.
Flat-butt leader
In Fly fishing, this is a fly having the butt section formed to a shape of a ribbon.
French Snap
It is a small clamp generally used by fly fishermen for attaching the net to the vest.
Leisenring Lift
It is a technique in nymph fly fishing. Here the line is lifted so that the imitation fly moves upwards just in front of the trout’s suspected lie.
Holding Lie
It is where the trout usually stays when it is not feeding actively.
Natural
It is a living insect unlike any man made or an artificial fly or insect.
Midge Rod
It is a light weight short rod.
Nymphing
It is one of the fishing techniques where the fly fisherman usually presents the animation of the insect when in the underwater stage.
Rise
It is an act of any fish trying to take an insect from the surface of water.
Run
This term is often used to talk about a specific stretch of moving water
Presentation
This is a method to place the fly in a position where the fish would most likely see it. It included the way how the cast completes and the manner in which the fly gets fished.
Shooting
It is a technique of casting
Spate
High waters are referred to as spate.
Stripping
It is the act of retrieving or pulling the line quickly from the reel.
Terrestrial
It relates to an insect that spends its life cycle completely spent on land or upon plants.
Waders’ staff
Waders’ staff is a sturdy rod which is quite high; about the armpit of the person. It is often used in fly fishing for the support required in heavy water
There are various terms and words that are not so familiar to a lot of people; however it would not matter to those who do not enjoy fly fishing.
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