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R
Rays
The soft or spiny supporting elements
of fish fins
Red
the colour of beautiful wine
Redd A hollow scooped in the sand or gravel of a riverbed
by breeding trout as spawning area.
Reel Seat - the part of the rod that holds the reel to
the rod, usually using locking metal rings or sliding bands
Retrieve - pulling the line back to the rod
Riffle - A small rapid in a river or stream
Rise - action of a trout as it rises for a fly on the
water's surface
Rod Flex - The manner in which the rod bends during
the cast during the acceleration phase of the cast
Roll-cast - The method of casting the fly from the
side, when there is now room behind you for a back-cast.
Running Line - a thin line attached to the back of
a shooting taper (shooting head) line. May be 20 to 50 pound
monofilament,depending on the rod and casting, if in saltwater
or fresh water, braided nylon, narrow floating or sinking
line, or other material. Usually about 100 feet in length,
it allows the fly fisher to quickly change the type of line
being used by interchanging only the head section
S
"S" Cast - cast used to put deliberate and
controlled slack into a cast; used in getting a drag free
float and in conjunction with mending line
Saltwater Taper - a weight forward fly line that is
similar to a bass bug taper
Setting the Hook - the act of pulling the hook into
the flesh of the fish's mouth
Shank - long straight part of the hook between the
eye and the bend
Shooting Taper - ST or Shooting Head - a short single
tapered fly line, shooting heads are designed for longest
casts with minimum effort; shooting heads allow quick change
of line types (floating, sinking, sink-tip, etc.)by quickly
interchanging head sections; shooting heads are most commonly
used with salmon, steelhead, saltwater, though they can be
used in all types of fly fishing
Smelt - small bait fish
Snake
- a thing you shouldn't step on!
Snake
guides - a formed wire guide on a fly rod
Sink Rate - the speed at which a sinking fly line sinks;
there are a number of sink rates
Sink-Tip Fly Line - F/S - a floating fly line where
the tip portion sinks
Sinking Fly Line - a fly line in which the entire length
of the line sinks beneath the surface of the water
Spinner - the egg laying stage of the mayfly
Spool - the part of the fly reel that revolves and
which holds the backing and the fly line
Stalking - creeping up on a fish, to surprise or not
disturb the fish or anything, including snakes
Standing Line - the part of the line that is joined
to another piece of line when tying the tag ends together
Stonefly - nymph lives for one to three years, depending
on species; most species hatch out by crawling to the shoreline
and emerging from its nymphal case above the surface, thus
adults are meals to trout only along shoreline and around
midstream obstructions; adult has two pair of wings which
are folded flat along its back when at rest
Streamer - fly tied to imitate the various species
of baitfish upon which game fish feed; usually tied using
feathers for the wing, but can be tied with hair and/or feathers
Stripping basket - a bag, box or clothes basket , either
on the ground or attached to the waist, used to collect loose
line when fishing, reduces tangles
Stripping line - Retrieving the line by pulling it
in through your fingers
Stock Fish - fish that are reared in captivity and
stocked into fisheries
Suboperculum
- In bony fish, the rear lower bone of the gill cover
Supracleithrum - The bone at the upper rear of the
skull of a fish, is one of the bones that support the pectoral
fin
Surface film - The apparent elastic like film on the
surface of water - which is created by surface tension
Surface
tension - The natural tendency of the surface of water
(and other liquids) to behave like an elastic sheet. It is
caused by forces acting between the water molecules: the molecules
at the surface are much more strongly attracted to each other,
and to the molecules below them, than they are to the molecules
of air above them
Surgeon's
Knot - excellent knot used to tie two lengths of monofilamont
together; the lines may be of different diameters
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