The Caddis Fly: Oregon Fly Fishing Blog

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 [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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