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Palmered:
Application of a hackle to hook body by
attaching at the bend and spiraling toward the
head, around the body, is called palmered
hackle. The process of winding thusly is to
"palmer" the hackle.
Palmer Fly:
Type of fly which has hackle wound over body
from tail to head. The name derived from the
Palmer Worm or Caterpiller of old England.
Usually these flies are wingless.
Palmered Fly:
Wet or dry fly with a thick body and a few or no
tail fibers, but identified best by the thick
hackle collar. No wings.
Parachute Flies:
Tied on specialty hook with a small wire tit on
top. Also tied by winding hackle horizontal to
hook shank, around the base of wings or around
the little tit.
Paradrake:
Fly style developed by Doug Swisher and Carl
Richards. Name comes from procedure of hackling
in a parachute manner. Used effectively to float
larger size flies.
Para Dun:
Dun fly patterns with parachute style wound
hackle. Developed by Swisher and Richards.
Partridge:
Feathers from entire bird are used in fly tying.
Hackles from rump and back are brown, from
breast they are gray. Tail feather fibers used
for nymph legs. A number of species of Partridge
exist but basically the plumage is similar.
Pattern, Fly:
1. Name of a fly, as Muddler.
2. Combinations of fly types, as Streamer fly.
3. Fly dressing, as Hairwing-orange body.
4. The dressing materials used in a fly.
Pea:
Peacock. Wing quills are rare but substitue of
gray mottled Turkey tail works as well. The herl
of tail feathers is nearly a must on the fly
tier's bench. Can be found dyed many colors
although the natural is either bronze or green.
The swords have a more blue-green tinge.
Pea Fowl:
See- Guinea. Not to be confused with Peacock.
Pearl:
Light gray and white barred duck flank feather.
Also Pearl Hackle, which is a light gray and
white barred grizzly.
Pearl Grizzly:
See - Chinchilla Hackle.
Peg:
Term used to describe a single tuft of material,
usually hair, representing fly wings. Parachute
flies have a peg, around which is wound,
horizontally, the hackle. (That is horizontal to
the shank.)
Perfect Fly:
The "perfect fly" is composed of the most
popular or most often used fly tying materials
and colors. It is a wet fly, size 12, to conform
with most popular style and size. The most
common fly (nearest to this description) is the
Flight's Fancy trout fly.
Pheasant Rump:
Feathers from the rump area of most Pheasants
and some Grouse are of a gray-brown-greenish
color. These small feathers are used mainly in
tails and leg representations on some flies.
Phentax:
Man-made yarn fiber used for bodies and wing
material. Trade name.
Pig Wool:
Under hair of the pig. The softer furry hair
under the bristles.
Pin Tail:
Whites and grays, and excellent fan wing
feathers come from this common duck. The gray
wing primaries provide good winging material.
Especially good for dry fly production.
Substitue either Mallard or Teal.
Pirling:
Old Scottish method of mixing various colored
hairs by twirling the hairs by butt ends between
the thumb and fore finger, thus mixing the
colors.
Pointers:
Term sometimes used for primary wing feathers.
Polar:
Polar bear hair, creamy white to white with a
touch of translucency. Used for winging flies.
Poly-I:
Man-made fiber yarn. Used for wings and bodies.
Trade name.
Pontoon Hackling:
Process and term developed by Swisher and
Richards for hackling a dry fly parachute style
but under the hook shank rather than on top. A
hackle is tied in at the thorax area with tip
pointing down. A loop is made of the hackle rib,
securing it to the shank. The remaining hackle
is wound parachute style around the loop, then
is secured to the shank, tip trimmed off, excess
loop cut off, and thorax finished.
Pontoon Tail:
Term for "V" formation of tail material. Process
is "Pontooning".
Primrose:
Color - Reddish-yellow. Sometimes lemon-yellow.
Profile:
The outline, generally, which a fishing fly
presents to the fish. Should approximate size
and configuration of the insect being
duplicated. Refers mainly to wet flies, nymphs
and streamers. For dry flies, see - Silhouette
Pukeko:
Marsh bird of New Zealand and Australia with
multi-colored plumage of blues, purples, greens
and reds. Feathers are used for some New Zealand
fly dressings.
Pupa pl-Pupeae:
In methamorphsis of insects, the pupa stage is a
dormant stage of chysalis stage. Most aquatic
insects stage from egg to larva to nymph to
adult. Some, like the Caddis pupate prior to the
adult stage. The term Pupa, however is
erroneously used by many anglers and fly tiers.
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