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Dark Ginger Hackle:
From brown Leghorn chickens, just a darker shade
of tan.
Dee:
Salmon fly tied with narrow wings, slightly
divided, flat on top, tips extend just beyond
hook bend. Also - a streamer fly tied like a
reverse matuka, with feather fibers divided
along the belly of the fly. Also called Spring
and Spring Salmon.
Deer:
Deer body hair is hollow, providing a flotation
when used as body material. Comes in various
shades from light gray to deep brown. A very
versatile hair for the fly tiers. Deer tails
provide the bucktail used in streamer winds.
Deer belly hair is white. Common deer are
Eastern Whitetail and Western Blacktail and Mule
Deer. Asiatic Sika deer also provide some nearly
red shades of hair.
Design, Fly:
Describes the use of a fly as: trout, salmon,
steelhead, lake, bass, tarpon, wet, dry,
streamer, nymph, pupa, etc.
Detached Body:
Process of building a body extension out beyond
the bend of the hook to simulate the extra long
bodies of some mayflies. Wire, monofilament and
deer body or bucktail hair are usually used,
with material wound on the base thus provided.
DFM:
Daylight Fluorescent Material - of floss
usually. Trade name "Gantron". Two main types
used as fly tying materials are DFM and DRF
(Depth Ray Fire).
Divided Wing:
Formed with two matched wing sections placed
downwing, on wet flies or streamers, with
concave sides outward, with tips of sections
pointed upwards. The slight division formed
allows wings to "work" in water action. Also
divided wings can be placed upright on dry flies
as separated wings.
See - Flat Wings.
Dk:
Dark.
Dominique:
Another name for grizzly, Plymouth Rock or
Barred Rock hackle. Also - Dominick.
Dotterel:
A type of Plover, the mottled wing feathers make
good winging material for flies.
Double Wing:
Tera refers to four wings. Two per side.
Downwing:
Wing materials so attached as to flow backwards
along body top. Used in most wet flies and
streamers. Sometimes slightly divided.
Drake:
The male of duck species. Also, another name for
Mayfly, of British origin.
Dresser:
Fly dresser. Term given to a fly tier in Europe
and British empire.
Dressing, Fly:
The recipe of component parts which make up a
fly pattern. Includes the order of application,
usually, of the various parts. A list of
materials and how to assemble them.
DRF:
See - DFM.
Dry Fly Hackle:
Hackle with a minimum of webbing, stiff and
resilient, which has a shine and appears full of
springy life.
Dry Tied Hackles:
Hackle tied with concave side toward the head of
the hook.
Dry Hackle:
See - Dry Fly Hackle.
Dub:
Abbreviation of Dubbing, or to dub or dubbed.
Process of applying fur to a waxed thread and
then winding on shank to make a body form.
See - Dubbin and Dubbing.
Dubbin:
Colloquial for Dubbing.
Dubbing:
Refers to a fur material, or mixture, or blend
of furs, suitable to making fur bodies for
flies. Also the process of twisting fur on to a
waxed thread in order to make a workable
substance for application as a fur body.
Sometimes refers to the process of picking out
hairs or fibers from fur bodies with a dubbing
needle to form psuedo legs or to enlarge thorax
areas of fly bodies. Other materials such as
Kapok are also used as dubbing material.
Dun:
Color - usually some shade of gray. Also the sub
imago stage of a mayfly.
Dun Hackle:
Gray-brown to medium gray, sometimes with a
tinge of blue.
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