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Tag:
Narrow winding under and behind tail, of tinsel,
floss, fur, or other material. Sometimes refers
to a short tail as a tag-tail.
Tag-Tail:
A short tail section usually of wool or floss or
feather, either used in place of a tail but
sometimes used above the tail. In that case it
is called a tail "top."
Tail Materials:
A listing, partial, of the many materials that
can be used for tailing flies: Pheasant tail and
tippets, crests, Turkey, Grouse, Partridge,
Macaw, Animal hairs, Herls, Hackle ribs,
Bristles and many others. See - Materials.
Tango:
Color: Reddish Orange.
Tapered Body:
Fly bodies are tapered usually small at the tail
and larger at the head end. Some are tapered in
cigar shape, small on each end with larger area
in the center. Tapering is an effect to match
the body shape of the insect being represented.
Tawny:
Color - Tan, brown, reddish yellow.
T.D.E. or TDE:
Turned Down Eye of a hook.
Teal:
When term is used alone, usually refers to the
white and black barred side or flank feathers.
The bird, a duck, provides many different
feathers for fly tying.
Teeter:
Term given in England to the process of picking
out the guard hairs or fur bodies or wool bodies
to create a semblence of legs or a larger thorax
on some flies such as nymphs. Also - Tease.
T.F.:
Tail feather.
Thorax:
That portion of the body of a fly between the
head and the abdomen. Usually larger in
thickness than the abdomen. From this area,
wings, legs and most fore hackle emanate.
Thorax Fly:
Dry fly tied in coventional manner, but the
hackle is clipped off at the bottom side to gie
un-obscured view of under body. Wings are
usually one clump type but may be two hackle
sections. Tails are spread in a "V" for better
floatation. Similar in design to the
Swisher/Richards "para" series. The wings and
hackles of Thorax flies are tied in near the
upper middle of the body. *Publishers note:
Thorax Fly is the original name given by Vince
Marinaro to to particular method of tying a dry
fly where the hackle is wrapped in an "X" manner
over the thorax at the middle of the hook, and
is not clipped. This produces a footprint
pattern on the surface of the water, very
similiar to the footprints of natural insects.
Throat:
The area just behind the head and under side of
a fly. This is the area where beard or chin is
affixed.
Tier:
One who makes fishing flies. Sometimes
improperly spelled tyer. See also - Dresser.
Tinsel:
A metallic shiny ribbon or thread wrapped with
the metallic ribbon used in ribbing of flies.
May be plastic, such as Mylar or Lurex. Usually
comes in silver, gold, green blue and red. Forms
are various widths of flat, round and oval. May
also be several stranded. Available also in
twist, embossed, rope and lace.
Tip:
Narrow winding of floss, tinsel, or other
material immediately behind the body. Tip
winding usually partially encircles the tail.
See also - Tag.
Tippet:
Term applied to breast feathers and neck
feathers of the Golden Pheasant. Colors range
from yellow-gold to deep reddish-gold with two
black bars. Used as a whole feather it is called
a tippet. When a few fibers are used they are
called tippets. Found in fly tails, wings and
shoulders. One or two fly patterns call for
hackling of tippet. Whole feathers are used in
wings of many salmon flies.
Top:
Refers to top portion of tail dressing. Example:
Gray Wing feather sections with red wing feather
section over, or on the top.
Topping:
A long feather or feathers placed on the very
top of a wing section on flies. Golden Pheasant
crest is used predominently on salmon flies.
Also referred to as the 'crest' of a fly.
Topping Wings:
Found on salmon flies. Entire wing is formed by
using Golden Pheasant crest feathers. Rare.
Toucan:
This rare Cebtral American bird provides
feathers of orange, yellow and red. Used in
salmon and some trout wet flies. Substitute with
dyed small hen neck feathers.
Tourocou:
N/A A feather.
Tragopan Pheasant:
Feathers from this rare Asian bird are from deep
red to light orange and have a dot. Used for
wings and shoulders. Nice effect if you are
fortunate eough to find some.
Trailers:
Short feather or other material tied in just
behind center or other joint, one on top and one
on the bottom. Usually found on salmon patterns.
Some salmon flies have two sets or more of
trailers behind each joint. See also - Veiling.
Trapped Wing:
See - Stillborn.
Treatyse Flies:
1. Dun Fly.
2. Dun Fly (Donne).
3. Red Spinner.
4. Yellow Fly.
5. Dun Cut.
6. Stone Fly.
7. Maure Fly.
8. Tandy Fly.
9. Wasp Fly.
10. Drake Fly.
11. Shell Fly.
12. Black Louper.
Tricorythodes:
Sometimes referred to as "Caenis", Midge flies
in the 20 to 28 sizes, in Duns, Spiners and
Nymphs. See Midge listing.
Trimmed Hackle:
Hackle which has been spread, then the fibers
trimmed or cut off to a shorter length. A large
hackle can be trimmed to fit a much smaller fly.
Trimmed hackles may alter the esthetic
appearance of the fly, but seem not to effect
its fishing qualities.
Trude:
Trude flies are customarily tied with hair
wings.
Tube Flies:
Basic fly pattern of most any kind tied on a
tube or hollow straw. This is slid onto the
leader before attaching a bare hook. Tube
dressing will slide over hook shank while being
fish. Used on both fresh and salt water flies.
Works better when using double hooks.
T.U.E.:
Turned Up Eye hook.
Twist:
Refers to tinsel thread, either gold or silver.
Twist Tinsel:
Two strands of tinseled thread, twisted
together. If three strands are twisted together,
it may be called Lace Tinsel.
Twist Wrap:
Procedure of forming fly bodies with use of
feathers, fibers or other material by twisting
it and the winding thread together to produce
body material. One very good purpose is to
strengthen certain body materials such as
Peacock herl.
Twitch:
Small, short floss, wool or other substace
placed just over tail dressing on some old style
salmon flies. See - Top.
Tying Thread:
Threads of silk, Nylon, Nylo or wire used to
bind the various parts of a fly onto a hook.
Commercially, threads can be purchased in sizes
from very fine to heavy and used according to
the size of hook or fly being tied. Size
identifications vary with manufacturer, but
usually follow a number pattern with the 6/0,
4/0, 2/0 smaller in diameter than the whole
numbers 1, 2, 3, etc., with 6/0 being very fine,
and #4 quite thick. Letter designations also are
used with 000 being very, very fine, then 00,
then 0, then A, then B, C, and D progressively
coarser and stronger. Size E is usually
considered strong enough to wrap guides onto
Ocean rods. Threads are usually waxed before
used for tying and now most threads can be
purchased pre-waxed if desired. Other commercial
threads such as Nylo (Trade Name) are now being
produced, these are synthetics such as Nylon
thread.
Tynex:
Commercial man-made hair used for winging, tails
and hackle materisl. Similar to FisHair. Both
names being trade names.
Type, Fly:
Gives further information about the general
appearance or use of a fly, as: Wet, Dry, Nymph,
Weighted, Terrestrial, Fore and Aft, Reverse,
Reverse Hackle, Bivisible, etc.
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