The Language of Fly-Fishing

19th century adult angler angling artificial fly attested in English black gnat Bloa Blood Knot boat brown trout bull trout butt buzzer cast catch chalk streams charr cock colour Cotton Courtney Williams dapping derives developed dibble Dictionary downstream dressing drift dropper dry fly dry-fly ephemeroptera especially Falkus feather feeding fish's fishermen fishing sense floating fly line fly-fishing Goddard grayling hackle hatch herling Hills History hook insects Irish Kingsmill Moore knot lakes larvae leader lochs lure mayfly midge natural nylon nymph fishing palmered parr perhaps pupa quill rainbow trout redd reel referred rise river Salmon Fishing sea trout fishing sedge shrimp silk Skues smolts smut spawning spinner stillwater trout stillwaters stone-fly summer surface tackle tail tapered Taverner & Scott technique term thorax Treatise Trout Flies upstream upwinged flies usually Venables verb Walton wet fly wind wings word wrote