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-W.:
Western. If fly name is followed by "-W" this is
a Western U.S. pattern.
Warf:
Body material or dubbing.
Watchet:
Color - Pale blue. Sky blue color.
Water Proofed Flies:
A solution of paraffin and carbontetrachloride
with the paraffin dissolved in the solution
applied to a dry fly will waterproof the fly for
long periods of time. Makes dry flies really
float!
W.D.:
Wood Duck.
Weave:
To intertwine or braid body materials on the
hook shank. Half hitching various colors on to a
hook is also a form of weaving.
Web. Webbing:
Soft fuzzy fibers between the hackle fibers
which determine use for the hackle as dry or wet
fly hackle. Hackles with little or no webbing
are used for dry flies.
Weighting:
Addition of weight to fly patterns by adding
lead wire, metal pins, foil, or strips of any
heavy materials. Pat Barnes, writer for "Fly
Tyer" magazine suggests using fuse wire as
follows:
Hook size 12 and under - 1 amp or size .015
Hook size 10-8 - amp or .025
Hook size 4-6 - 3 amp .030.
A light weight fly would have half of hook shank
covered and a heavy weighted fly would have a
full shank plus another half weighted. He
suggests also coloring headed of flies so
weighted, yellow for light, red for medium and
green for heavy. This system, if standardized,
would be a workable one and could be easily
become internationally acceptable.
Wet Fly Hackles:
Hackles used on wet flies come from myriads of
sources: Partridge, Grouse, Loon, Snipe,
Starling, Heron, Peacock, Pheasant, Owls,
Woodcock, Plover, Guinea, Blackbirds, and many
others birds. Secret is to select a feather
which will absorb water, sink readily, and have
action in the water.
W.F.:
Wing feather.
Weld:
Procedure of joining various colors of feathers
together.
See - Marry. Also - Meld.
Wet Hackle:
Hackle with soft fibers and with considerable
smount of webbing. Webbing assists in water
absorption. Also, wet hackles do not have
springy fibers as do dry hackles.
Wet Tied Hackle:
Hackle tied with the concave side toward the
tail.
Whip Finish:
Method of completing the head of a fly. Basis of
the whip finish is a number of winds over the
final end of the thread so that the end is
locked down inside the wraps. Whipping can be
done by fingers alone or by the use of any
number of commercially made tools.
Whisks:
Feather or fur fibers. Usually refers to feather
fibers. Also, refers to the tail of a fly.
White Badger Hackles:
Rare, ginger with a white stripe down the
center.
White Tipped Mallard:
These are the bluish, iridescent, white-tipped
secondaries or flight feathers found on drake
Mallards. Special use is in McGinty fly wings.
Whiting:
Name for Sea Trout, also called Whitting,
Herling and Finnock. Special flies are tied for
this fish.
Whole Feather Wings:
Composed of entire feathers such as Golden
Pheasant tippet, Jungle Cock or Bass rounds.
Usually set upright in pairs.
Widgeon:
Fresh water duck between size of a Mallard and a
Teal. These birds provide many fly tying
feathers, especially the barred flank feathers
used for winging and tails of flies and nymphs.
Colors from whites to browns to dark grays. The
term Widgeon, alone, in dressings usually refers
to the barred, side or flank feathers.
Wiggle Nymph:
Constructed in two sections: The abdomen or
wiggling portion, and thorax, the front or more
stationary portion. Abdomen is constructed on a
ring eye hook shank, then bend portion of hook
is cut off. Ring eye is attached to front hook
with a small, loose, well rounded loop of piano
wire in order to provide a free action in the
aft portion.
Wild Turkey:
Feathers of most hues of black to white in all
the browns, grays and metallics are found in the
wild turkey plumage. Become friendly with a
hunter and possibly you will be able to get some
of these much desired feathers.
Wing Broads:
Another name for secondary wing feathers.
Wing Case:
On nymphs, the one, two, or three raised
portions over the thorax area. These are
simulated by small feathers tied in, and
sometimes fibers or hair bunches tied in and
bent over to form the bumps.
See also - Wing Pads. On actual nymphs, the
wings are forming under a thin filmy cover which
bursts to release the wings during emergence.
Wing Case Construction:
Methods may vary. A build-up of body materials
or feather segments tied in, or floss or wool or
Poly strands all simulate the cases quite well.
Wing Feathers:
Various types of feathers are found in wings.
Primary or pointers are the flight feathers.
Paired primaries are a matching feather from
each wing. Matching sections are ued for fly
wings. Secondary flight feathers are also used
for winging material. Other wing feathers are;
Coverts, cussettes on the upper side and
satinets on the under side.
Wing Materials:
Feather; Some of the most common, and by far a
sample listing only of winging materials -
Blackbird, Owl, Capercailzie, Crow, Coot, Wild
Ducks, Jay, Guinea Fowl, Moor Hen, Pheasant,
Snipe, Starling, Teal, Woodcock, Grouse, Thrush,
Goose, Jungle Cock, and many more.
Hairs: include Squirrel, Woodchuck, Badger, Deer
body and tail, Calf, Impala, Caribou, Polar
Bear, Black Bear, Monkey, Monga, Fox, Wolf, and
many more as just as few examples.
See - Materials.
Wing Pads:
Same as Wing Case. The bumps on the thorax area
of nymphs.
Wings:
Fly wings are usually made of feathers, but may
be made of other materials as hair, floss,
plastics, tinsel, fur or wool fibers. Wings are
either simple or compound depending on the
number of items used. Wings may vary according
to positioning and structure.
See - Simple Wings, Multiple Wings, Whole
Feather Wings, Mixed Wings, Built Wings, Topping
Wings, Herl Wings, and Hair Wings.
Wing Slats:
In pupa imitations, refers to the wing feather
sections, usually gray, placed on each side of
the body. Slats are short and usually pointed
downward. They simulate the half-shed, or split
wing pads, and the newly forming wings of an
emerger or pupa of the Caddis.
Wisp:
Hackle fiber.
Wolf:
Hair and under-fur of the Wolf are used in wet,
dry and streamer flies. The long tail and guard
hairs make excellent streamer wing material.
Wonder Wings:
Wonder Wings originated in the early 1920s. They
are formed by reverse pulling hackle fibers and
tying the tip end and pulled down fibers, with
butt end up. Butt end is cut off, leaving a
filigre type effect of the remainder. A pair of
such make Wonder wings. Extended Mayfly bodies
are made similarly.
See - Reverse Pull.
Woodcock:
Hackles from the back and rump are light gray to
light brown. Wing feathers provide grays to dark
brown sections for small trout flies.
Wood Duck:
Used for both salmon and trout flies as well as
some warm water flies. The barred flank feathers
are rare and usually expensive and are used
mainly in salmon fly dressings. The speckled
flank feathers are a lemon-yellow color and are
used mainly as wings and tails for trout flies.
This bird is also called Summer Duck. Substitute
Mandarin or dyed Mallard flank.
Wood Duck Barred:
The few brown-gray feathers on a Wood Duck which
have the single or double white barring along
with black barring.
Woven Body:
Process of weaving two different colors or
materials on a hook shank to result in a dark
top and a light bottom or to create side lines
of contrasting colors. Makes a firm, strong
body. Example: Bitch Creek Nymph and Sandy Mite.
WT:
Abbreviation for weight.
W.T.D or WTD:
Weighting added to fly with lead wire or lead
shot applied on hook shank before forming body.
Lighter weighting material can be wire or
copper, silver or gold. Strips of lead also can
be mounted on sides of shank to produce a
flattened heavy body such as used in some nymph
patterns.
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