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Baboon:
Body hair of baboons is silky and durable,
varying from cream to medium brown. Ideal for
streamer wings.
Badger:
Hair and fur from the badger ranges from cream
to pale buff. Guard hairs are quite stiff and
provide a nicely barred fiber, strong and
durable into the grays and gray-browns.
Badger Hackle:
Creamy white centers with black tips and edges.
Any dark natural shade hackle with a whitish
list.
Barbles:
Improper term given to feather fibers.
Barbules:
Tiny hook-like projections on feather fibers
which lock to keep fibers together.
Barred Hackle:
Same as grizzly.
Barred Feathers:
Feathers with dark and light markings, usually
small markings running horizontal to center
quill. They are found in the flank or side
feathers of some ducks. Example - Mallard, teal,
wood duck and wideon flank.
Barred Rock Hackle:
Another name for "grizzly". Barred rock feathers
are from Plymouth Rock chickens.
Barred Teal:
Side or flank feathers of the teal duck having
black and white small bar markings. Teal barring
usually runs at an acute angle to the mid-rib of
the feather.
Barred Wood Duck:
See - Wood duck barred.
Bastard Bustard:
Term used by Francis Francis to differentiate
two types or shades of Bustard feathers. May
also refer to the Lesser Bustard.
Beading:
British reference to silver or gold thread. That
is: thread with a fine silver or gold tinsel
wrapped on a thread.
Bear:
Bear body hair can be found of most any shade in
whites, blacks and browns. It has an oily
texture and makes fine streamer wings.
Beard:
Tuft of fibers of hackle or hair, downward from
just back of the head of the fly. These fibers
represent the legs of an insect or at times the
gills of a bait fish.
Beard hackling is accomplished by two main
methods: A tuft of hackle fibers attached under
the shoulder area. Hackle wound on as a collar,
then fibers are all stroked downward and secured
in that position with tying thread. Also called
"chin" and "throat".
Beaver:
Lustrous browns to deep gray in the under fur
makes the beaver pelt a much desired material
for fly tying.
B.F.:
Body feather.
Bi-Fly:
Any fly which can be fished either dry or wet.
Example: Lutz Bi-Fly, or Renegade.
Biot:
The short side of a duck or goose primary wing
feather, stripped off the feather with some of
the ribbing intact. Sections of this material
are used on top of some streamers to simulate
dorsal fins of bait fish. Often tied reversed,
with the fibers facing forward to toward the eye
of the hook.
See - Chinese Biots.
Bird Skins:
A sensible way to purchase feather stocks is to
obtain full bird skins. Commercial materials
houses usually can provide them.
Bivisible:
Dry fly with a face hackle of a lighter shade,
(usually white), then the rest of the hackle on
the fly. Purpose is to make the fly more easily
visible to the fisherman in waning light.
Bk:
Color - black.
Bl. or Blu:
Color - blue.
Black Hackle:
From Black Leghorn or Black Minorca chickens,
and a black to shiny black in color. Any hackle
dyed black.
Blea:
Scottish spelling of British word "Bloa".
See also - Bloa.
Blae Hackle:
Gray or dark gray to nearly black throughout. A
Scottish term.
Blea:
Mis-spelling of blae. Sometimes used to define a
gray with a bluish tint, and sometimes used to
describe blue.
Blend:
To mix hairs, furs and wools in order to arrive
at various color or shades of color effects.
This process can be done by hand or by use of a
dry blend mixer or an ordinary household kitchen
blender.
Bloa:
British term referring to light to medium gray
throughout.
Blue Chatterer:
Feathers from this bird were originally used in
many salmon patterns, but are extremely rare.
Substitute dyed blue feathers, or if available,
use kingfisher.
Blue Dun Hackle:
Light gray usually, can be most any shade of
gray. May have bluish tinge, which can vary from
a pale blue to a dark gun-metal blue. The darker
shades are referred to as "Iron blue dun."
Bluejay:
Pale to brilliant blue feathers from this North
American bird are used primarily in wet flies
due to their softness. Shades of gray are also
found in the feathers. Substitute guinea breast
or side feathers dyed blue, or any dyed blue
feathers.
Bobbin:
A tool of fly tying which holds spools of
thread, wire or floss. Also called a "bobbin
holder".
Bodkin:
A dubbing needle, stilletto or a tool by any
other name composed of a sharp pointed needle
set in a handle of sorts. This tool has many
uses to the fly tier. Used to pick out burried
hackle fibers, hairs, and furs and to apply head
cement in tiny droplet form. Also comes in handy
to clean out head cement from hook eyes.
Body:
Main portion of fly wrapped on or around hook
shank. Materials used are fur, floss, wools,
herl, quill or tinsel. May be jointed by herl
warps and veiled with feathers, or have parts
separated by hackle wraps.
Br.:
Color - brown.
Braided Body:
Body material woven to create different colors,
shades and schemes and to add strength to fly
body.
(See - Woven body).
Brama:
Another term for a badger hackle or feather.
Also Broma.
Brandy Brown:
Color - Tan, brown of a metallic sheen.
See also - Tawny.
Brassy Dun Hackle:
Dark ginger with gray or brown streak in the
center.
Bronze Furnace Hackle:
Furnace hackle dyed blue, resulting in a bronze
effect.
Brown:
Color - or should we say, colors. Any shade from
beige to nearly black.
Brown Mallard Shoulder:
Sections of the brown speckled shoulder feathers
of Mallard ducks are used as fly wing material
on smaller trout flies. To use this feather on
larger flies, such as lake flies and some salmon
patterns, sometimes the whole feather is
applied. It may also be trimmed to shape
desired. Many tiers refer to the brownish
nashuas of summer duck as brown mallard. A
confusing situation, especially when authorities
as Pryce-Tannet use this term as in his Black
Spean dressing, calling for brown mallard strips
set horizontally. The color picture of the fly
shows that more likely brown nashua has been
used. A few saddle hackles of the mallard and
brown and speckled and should probably be termed
brown mallard. The flank, speckled, brownish
feathers, lighter at the base, may be more
properly named "bronze mallard."
Bronze Mallard:
See - Brown Mallard.
Buck:
Refers to bucktail.
Bucktail Fly:
Also - Bucktail streamer. A fly, usually of a
streamer style, with hair wings, representing a
baitfish. The wings are normally of bucktail
hair, but other hairs can be used.
Built Wings:
Found in some salmon fly patterns where a base
wing is surmounted with other feathers or
combinations of feathers.
Bully Patterns:
Deeply fished streamer patterns popular in New
Zealand. The flies represent the Cockabully, a
small sculpin-like fish common to New Zealand
waters. Patterns have a common design with side
wings rather than top wings.
See - Killer Style wings.
Bunch:
Refers to a large portion of hair or material.
Also - process of gathering fibers of hackle or
hair or other material together.
Bunch Wings:
Wings formed from a bunch of hackle fibers or
from any feather, where the fibers are bunched
together.
Burgundy:
Color - Bluish-red.
Bustard:
Wing feathers of speckled bustard are rare. Used
mainly in salmon fly dressing. From an African
or asian bird providing brown to nearly black
barred feathers used as wings, tails and legs in
fly patterns. A suitable substitute is the Oak
Turkey tail feather.
Butt:
A buildup of one or two winds of herl, wool,
chenille, or other material at the tail end of
the body. Simulates an egg sac in some cases.
Many salmon fly patterns call for a butt.
Buzz:
Another name for a palmered hackle dry fly. A
fly tied in this manner with no wings - or -
small ones. Example:
See - Gray Hackle.
By-Plane:
Procedure of tying wing feathers onto a fly body
in a flat style rather than on edge. Produces
thin side lines of various colors or effects,
better representing the thin side lines of bait
fishes. Used primarily in streamer patterns.
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