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Artificial fly

Index Artificial fly

An artificial fly or fly lure is a type of fishing lure, usually used in the sport of fly fishing (although they may also be used in other forms of angling). [1]

87 relations: A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling, A History of Fly Fishing for Trout, Aberdeen, Alexandra (wet fly), Amphibian, Animal, Aquatic insect, Artificial fly, Atlantic salmon, Atlantic tarpon, Bait fish, Bass (fish), Bibliography of fly fishing (fly tying, stories, fiction), Bird, Bluegill, Bonefish, Book of Saint Albans, Brown trout, Buoyancy, Caddisfly, Carp, Carrie G. Stevens, Chub (disambiguation), Clouser Deep Minnow, Common carp, Crazy Charlie, Creel (basket), Crustacean, Dave's Hopper, Egg sucking leech, Elk Hair Caddis, Esox, Estuary, Favorite Flies and Their Histories, Feather, Fish hook, Fish migration, Fishing lure, Fishing popper, Flesh, Flesh fly (fly fishing), Floating Flies and How to Dress Them, Fly fishing, Fly tying, Fresh water, Fully dressed flies, Fur, Game fish, Grasshopper, Insect, ..., John Dennys, Juliana Berners, Largemouth bass, Lefty's Deceiver, Mammal, Mayfly, Micropterus, Muddler Minnow, Muskellunge, Northern pike, Oncorhynchus, Orvis, Panfish, Partridge and Orange, Plecoptera, Predation, Rainbow trout, Red Tag (artificial fly), Reptile, Royal Coachman, Salmon, Sculpin, Seawater, Spawn (biology), Striped bass, Surf Candy, Terrestrial animal, The Compleat Angler, The Way of a Trout with the Fly, Trout, Tube fly, United States, Vegetation, Woolly Bugger, Woolly Worm (imitation), Worm, Yarn. Expand index (37 more) »

A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling

A Concise Treatise on the Art of Angling- Confirmed by Actual Experiences and Minute Observations to Which is Added the Compleat Fly-Fisher is a fly fishing book written by Thomas Best, first published in London in 1787.

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A History of Fly Fishing for Trout

A History of Fly Fishing for Trout is a fly fishing book written by John Waller Hills published in London in 1921.

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Aberdeen

Aberdeen (Aiberdeen,; Obar Dheathain; Aberdonia) is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 37th most populous built-up area, with an official population estimate of 196,670 for the city of Aberdeen and for the local authority area.

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Alexandra (wet fly)

The Alexandra wet fly originated in Scotland in the 1860s.

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Amphibian

Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Aquatic insect

Aquatic insects or water insects live some portion of their life cycle in the water.

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Artificial fly

An artificial fly or fly lure is a type of fishing lure, usually used in the sport of fly fishing (although they may also be used in other forms of angling).

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Atlantic salmon

The Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae.

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Atlantic tarpon

The Atlantic tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) inhabits coastal waters, estuaries, lagoons, and rivers.

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Bait fish

Feeder Goldfish are common baitfish. Bait fish are small fish caught for use as bait to attract large predatory fish, particularly game fish.

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Bass (fish)

Bass is a name shared by many species of fish.

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Bibliography of fly fishing (fly tying, stories, fiction)

This annotated bibliography is intended to list both notable and not so notable works of English language, non-fiction and fiction related to the sport of fly fishing listed by year published.

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Bird

Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Bluegill

The bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus) is a species of freshwater fish sometimes referred to as bream, brim, or copper nose.

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Bonefish

The bonefish (Albula vulpes) is the type species of the bonefish family (Albulidae), the only family in order Albuliformes.

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Book of Saint Albans

The Book of Saint Albans (or Boke of Seynt Albans) is the common title of a book printed in 1486 that is a compilation of matters relating to the interests of the time of a gentleman.

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Brown trout

The brown trout (Salmo trutta) is a European species of salmonid fish that has been widely introduced into suitable environments globally.

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Buoyancy

In physics, buoyancy or upthrust, is an upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of an immersed object.

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Caddisfly

The caddisflies, or order Trichoptera, are a group of insects with aquatic larvae and terrestrial adults.

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Carp

Carp are various species of oily freshwater fish from the family Cyprinidae, a very large group of fish native to Europe and Asia.

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Carrie G. Stevens

Carrie Gertrude Stevens (1882-1970) was an American fly fisher and fly lure tier from Madison and Upper Dam, Maine, and the creator of Rangeley Favorite trout and salmon flies.

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Chub (disambiguation)

Chub is a common name for some types of fish.

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Clouser Deep Minnow

The Clouser Deep Minnow is an artificial fly commonly categorized as a streamer and is fished under the water surface.

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Common carp

The common carp or European carp (Cyprinus carpio) is a widespread freshwater fish of eutrophic waters in lakes and large rivers in Europe and Asia.

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Crazy Charlie

The Crazy Charlie is a bonefish fly for saltwater fly fishing developed on Andros Island in 1977 in the Bahamas by local bonefish guide Charlie Smith and popularized by San Francisco angler Bob Nauheim.

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Creel (basket)

A Creel is a wicker basket usually used for carrying fish or blocks of peat.

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Crustacean

Crustaceans (Crustacea) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, woodlice, and barnacles.

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Dave's Hopper

Dave's Hopper is an artificial fly used for fly fishing, designed to imitate adult grasshoppers and other Orthoptera species.

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Egg sucking leech

The egg-sucking leech is an artificial fly used in fly fishing.

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Elk Hair Caddis

The Elk Hair Caddis is a dry fly commonly used for trout fishing.

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Esox

Esox is a genus of freshwater fish, the only living genus in the family Esocidae—the esocids which were endemic to North America and Eurasia during the Paleogene through present.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Favorite Flies and Their Histories

Favorite Flies and Their Histories - With many replies from practical anglers to inquiries concerning how, when and where to use them-Illustrated by Thirty-two colored plates of flies, six engravings of natural insects and eight reproductions of photographs is a fly fishing book written by Mary Orvis Marbury published in Boston in April 1892 by Houghton Mifflin.

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Feather

Feathers are epidermal growths that form the distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on birds and other, extinct species' of dinosaurs.

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Fish hook

A fish hook or fishhook is a device for catching fish either by impaling them in the mouth or, more rarely, by snagging the body of the fish.

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Fish migration

Many types of fish migrate on a regular basis, on time scales ranging from daily to annually or longer, and over distances ranging from a few metres to thousands of kilometres.

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Fishing lure

A fishing lure is a type of artificial fishing bait which is designed to attract a fish's attention.

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Fishing popper

The popper is an effective and proven lure designed to move water using a concave or hollowed nose.

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Flesh

Flesh is the soft substance of the body of a living thing.

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Flesh fly (fly fishing)

Flesh Fly is a popular fly pattern used by rainbow trout anglers in Western Alaska.

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Floating Flies and How to Dress Them

Floating Flies and How to Dress Them - A Treatise on the Most Modern Methods of Dressing Artificial Flies for Trout and Grayling with Full Illustrated Directions and Containing Ninety Hand-Coloured Engravings of the Most Killing Patterns Together with a Few Hints to Dry-Fly Fishermen is a fly fishing book written by Frederic M. Halford published in London in April 1886 by Sampson Low.

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Fly fishing

Fly fishing is an angling method in which an artificial "fly" is used to catch fish.

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Fly tying

Fly tying is the process of producing an artificial fly used by fly fishing anglers to catch fish.

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Fresh water

Fresh water (or freshwater) is any naturally occurring water except seawater and brackish water.

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Fully dressed flies

Fully dressed flies are fly fishing flies that use many or all of the parts of a fly.

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Fur

Fur is the hair covering of non-human mammals, particularly those mammals with extensive body hair that is soft and thick.

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Game fish

Game fish are fish pursued by recreational anglers.

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Grasshopper

Grasshoppers are insects of the suborder Caelifera within the order Orthoptera, which includes crickets and their allies in the other suborder Ensifera.

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Insect

Insects or Insecta (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates and the largest group within the arthropod phylum.

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John Dennys

John Dennys (died 1609), a poet and fisherman, pioneered Angling poetry in England.

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Juliana Berners

Juliana Berners, O.S.B., (or Barnes or Bernes) (born 1388), English writer on heraldry, hawking and hunting, is said to have been prioress of the Priory of St Mary of Sopwell, near St Albans in Hertfordshire.

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Largemouth bass

The largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) is a freshwater gamefish in the Centrarchidae (sunfish) family, a species of black bass native to North America.

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Lefty's Deceiver

The Lefty's Deceiver is an artificial fly streamer pattern used in fly fishing for freshwater and saltwater species.

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Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

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Mayfly

Mayflies (also known as Canadian soldiers in the United States, and as shadflies or fishflies in Canada and the upper Midwestern U.S.; also up-winged flies in the United Kingdom) are aquatic insects belonging to the order Ephemeroptera.

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Micropterus

Micropterus is a genus of freshwater fish in the sunfish family (family Centrarchidae) of order Perciformes.

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Muddler Minnow

The Muddler Minnow is a popular and versatile artificial fly of the streamer type used in fly fishing and fly tying.

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Muskellunge

The muskellunge (Esox masquinongy), also known as muskelunge, muscallonge, milliganong, or maskinonge (and often abbreviated "muskie" or "musky"), is a species of large, relatively uncommon freshwater fish native to North America.

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Northern pike

The northern pike (Esox lucius), known simply as a pike in Britain, Ireland, most of Canada, and most parts of the United States (once called luce when fully grown; also called jackfish or simply "northern" in the U.S. Upper Midwest and in Manitoba), is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus Esox (the pikes).

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Oncorhynchus

Oncorhynchus is a genus of fish in the family Salmonidae; it contains the Pacific salmon and Pacific trout.

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Orvis

Orvis is a family-owned retail and mail-order business specializing in high-end fly fishing, hunting and sporting goods.

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Panfish

A panfish, also spelled pan-fish or pan fish, is an edible game fish that usually doesn't outgrow the size of a frying pan.

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Partridge and Orange

The Partridge and Orange is an artificial fly commonly categorized as a wet fly or soft hackle and is fished under the water surface.

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Plecoptera

The Plecoptera are an order of insects, commonly known as stoneflies.

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Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where a predator (a hunting animal) kills and eats its prey (the organism that is attacked).

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Rainbow trout

The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a trout and species of salmonid native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America.

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Red Tag (artificial fly)

The Red Tag is an artificial fly originally designed as a dry fly for grayling and trout in the north country of England.

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Reptile

Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives.

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Royal Coachman

The Royal Coachman is an artificial fly that has been tied as a wet fly, dry fly and streamer pattern.

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Salmon

Salmon is the common name for several species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae.

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Sculpin

A sculpin is a type of fish that belongs to the superfamily Cottoidea in the order Scorpaeniformes.

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Seawater

Seawater, or salt water, is water from a sea or ocean.

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Spawn (biology)

Spawn is the eggs and sperm released or deposited into water by aquatic animals.

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Striped bass

The striped bass (Morone saxatilis), also called Atlantic striped bass, striper, linesider, rock or rockfish, is an anadromous Perciforme fish of the family Moronidae found primarily along the Atlantic coast of North America.

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Surf Candy

Surf Candy is style of artificial fly used primarily in saltwater fly fishing to imitate small sand eels and other small baitfish.

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Terrestrial animal

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g., cats, ants, spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g., fish, lobsters, octopuses), or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats (e.g., frogs, or newts).

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The Compleat Angler

The Compleat Angler (the spelling is sometimes modernised to The Complete Angler) is a book by Izaak Walton.

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The Way of a Trout with the Fly

The Way of a Trout with the Fly and Some Further Studies in Minor Tactics is a fly fishing book written by G. E. M. Skues published in London in 1921.

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Trout

Trout is the common name for a number of species of freshwater fish belonging to the genera Oncorhynchus, Salmo and Salvelinus, all of the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae.

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Tube fly

A tube fly is a general tying style of artificial fly used by fly anglers.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Vegetation

Vegetation is an assemblage of plant species and the ground cover they provide.

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Woolly Bugger

The Woolly Bugger is an artificial fly commonly categorized as a wet fly or streamer and is fished under the water surface.

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Woolly Worm (imitation)

The Woolly Worm is an artificial fly commonly categorized as a wet fly or nymph and is fished under the water surface.

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Worm

Worms are many different distantly related animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body and no limbs.

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Yarn

Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibres, suitable for use in the production of textiles, sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery, or ropemaking.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_fly

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