This is the seventh installment of The Fly Fishers Glossary: Snippets From the Underbelly of Fly Fishing, Fly Tying, Fish Biology, Dusty old Facts, Hallucinations, and the Plain Truth as I know it, by Jay Nicholas.
Dollie
Formerly, a Dollie (sometimes Dolly) was an undesirable but rare trash fish detested because they gobbled up hatchery trout on [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Fly Fishing Glossary'
Fly fishing glossary: Dollie to Elmer Fudd Hat
November 13th, 2009 · 6 Comments
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The fly fishing glossary: Chuck to Dead Drift Nymphing
November 12th, 2009 · 5 Comments
This is the sixth installment of The Fly Fishers Glossary: Snippets From the Underbelly of Fly Fishing, Fly Tying, Fish Biology, Dusty old Facts, Hallucinations, and the Plain Truth as I know it, by Jay Nicholas.
Chuck
Archaic term meaning to cast a fly, as in, “Chuck it out there Dude”. “Chuck” is a [...]
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Jay Nicholas Fly Tying Glossary: Bug Net to Chrome-on-Chrome
October 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments
This is the fifth installment of The Fly Fishers Glossary: Snippets From the Underbelly of Fly Fishing, Fly Tying, Fish Biology, Dusty old Facts, Hallucinations, and the Plain Truth as I know it, by Jay Nicholas.
Bug Net
Now here is a wonder to behold. Take a really dorky looking hat, string mosquito netting around [...]
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Jay Nicholas Fly Fishing Glossary: Blog to Burlap
October 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments
This is the fourth installment of The Fly Fishers Glossary: Snippets From the Underbelly of Fly Fishing, Fly Tying, Fish Biology, Dusty old Facts, Hallucinations, and the Plain Truth as I know it, by Jay Nicholas.
Blog
Internet posting of conversation, deep thinking, irrational maniacal imagination, and distorted facts that probably should be kept to one’s self. [...]
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Jay Nicholas Fly Fishing Glossary: Baby Seal to Big Tides
September 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
This is the third installment of The Fly Fishers Glossary: Snippets From the Underbelly of Fly Fishing, Fly Tying, Fish Biology, Dusty old Facts, Hallucinations, and the Plain Truth as I know it.
Baby seal
Obsolete fly tying material. Grim to admit it, but we salivated over this stuff back in the old days. It [...]
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Jay Nicholas Fly Fishing Glossary: Amnesia to Automatic Fly Reel
September 18th, 2009 · 4 Comments
This is the second installment of The Fly Fishers Glossary: Snippets From the Underbelly of Fly Fishing, Fly Tying, Fish Biology, Dusty old Facts, Hallucinations, and the Plain Truth as I know it.
Jay W. Nicholas
Amnesia
A state of mind that overcomes fly anglers who are contemplating the merits of going off on a fishing trip versus [...]
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Introducing Jay Nicholas’s fly fishing glossary
August 21st, 2009 · No Comments
The Fly Fishers Glossary: Snippets From the Underbelly of Fly Fishing, Fly Tying, Fish Biology, Dusty old Facts, Hallucinations, and the Plain Truth as I know it.
Jay W. Nicholas
We’re fly fishers, right? We have our own language, our history, and God knows, our quirks. We are serious about this stuff, and we know [...]
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