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Rabbit:
Versatile fur for most any color, prominent
guard hairs make rabbit fur ideal for fly
bodies. Hairs from foot pads are bristly and
translucent. The "mask" or head and face skin
from a summer killed rabbit is especially unique
in the fly tier's kit.
Radius:
Hackle tied spider style.
Rainbow Trout:
Salmo gairdneri, also Salmo irideus, in Britian.
Also called Steelhead when sea run. Other names:
California Trout, Salmon Trout, Pacific Trout,
Bows and Steelies.
Raffia:
A shiny, smooth surfaced grass used to form fly
bodies. May be wrapped as quill. Usually is a
tan color but may be dyed most any color.
R.B.:
Ray Bergman, Fisherman, author and fly tier.
Recipe, Fly:
Component parts, how much of each, order of
placement, color, type of material, etc., used
in the production of a fly.
Red Fox:
Provides a dark fur either brown or gray and a
special creamy fur from the belly area. Red Fox
tails provide a dark reddish brown streamer wing
material.
Red Hackle:
In hackle colors, usually refers to a brown such
as used on the Royal Coachman fly. Deep shiney
shade of brown. So named because of the reddish
hue.
Red Head Duck:
The most useful feathers from this bird are
found in the wings. Primaries and secondary wing
feathers are excellent for winging dry flies due
to their translucent quality.
Red Materials:
Body materials or dyed feathers referred to as
red, are in any of the shades of red such as
scarlet, crimson, cherry, etc.
Reeve Pheasant:
See - Venery Pheasant.
Refraca Flies:
Another name for Variants.
Reverse Fly:
A fly tied with the head at the bend of the hook
and the tail at the eye of the hook. Purpose, to
create the effect of an insect floating on the
surface of moving water with it's head pointing
upstream as in most natural live insects.
Reverse Hackle:
Procedure of wrapping the hackle with the
concave side forward. Provides high riding
quality and keeps the fly from tipping forward.
Also used in some wet flies such as the Woolly
worm where reverse hackling tends to give
greater action to the hackle fibers.
Reverse Pull:
Term for style of imitating suck of emerging
insect. Hackle tip is tied in at tail to
represent tail with some fibers of the hackle
pulled back toward body and tied in. Resulting
form appears to be partially empty nymphal case.
See also - Wonder Wing.
Reverse Tie, Bucktail:
Bucktail tied in at head of fly with tips laying
forward over eye. Then tips bent back over body,
making a wing or a throat. Secured with tying
thread about one quarter inch back of the eye.
This forms a bucktail head. Used primarily in
the Thunder Creek series of streamers.
Ribbing, Rib:
Spiral windings of material over the body or
portions of the body. Ribbing is primarily to
simulate segmentation and materials used are
tinsels, threads, flosses and quills. Also used
to tie down body or wing portions and to
strengthen body forms.
R.I. Red:
Rhode Island Red. Brown hackle.
Ripon:
Another name for Silver Pheasant.
Rock Chuck:
Groundhog of the Western U.S. Hair and furs are
used for winging and tails.
See - Chuck Caddis.
Rolla:
Very long and white hair, especially good for
long streamer wings.
Rolled Wing:
Wing made of breast or flank feather tips and
the fibers of which are rolled between the
fingers to remove the natural curvature of the
fibers, then tied in, used mainly to make double
winged flies.
Rubber Hackle:
Hackle or legs made from the commercially
available white or colored rubber strands. Has
an attractive motion in water.
Ruddy:
Color - Reddish brown.
Ruff:
Term sometimes used for Butt. Term also used to
designate the breast portion of feathers of a
bird, such as Golden Pheasant Ruff feather
(Breast). Term is also synonymous with joint and
sometimes used to describe a furry head on some
salmon flies. A ruff may be formed of hair,
wool, fur, chenille, mohair or herls.
Rusty Dun Hackle:
Gray tinged with brown. Rare in natural shades.
Can be produced by drying a ginger variant
hackle, gray.
Rusty Dun Variant Hackle:
Ginger varient dyed gray.
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