Ok I`am clueles about some termanology

[Tom H]

What is swinging ,and the other terms I hear but have no idea what they mean ,Help the new guy :thisbig::thisbig:

[sothereiwas]

Swinging is when the flies is cast and presented with tension so it moves across the current back towards you.

Brad

[spooner]

mending;throwing your line back up streem to get the belly out of your line to get a drag free drift.

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[Old Coot]

Backcast. The rod movement wherein you cast your line up and out behind you to load your rod for the forward cast.

Tree trout. Ofttimes hooked when the backcast goes a little awry.

Roll cast. A casting motion using the drag of the water to load the rod for the forward cast, eliminating the necessity to backcast. Usually learned by anglers who have caught enough tree trout to last a lifetime.

Pithy comment. What one utters just after smacking themselves in the back of the head with a 2/0 weighted fly propelled by a double-hauled 350 grain sinking head.

Barbless. The type of hook one permanently switches to just moments after uttering their second pithy comment. It allows for easy removal of the hook from trout, salmon, steelhead, waders, felt soles, necks, scalps, triceps, ear lobes, cheeks and soon-to-be-ex friends.

Drag. 1. If you are casting to a specific fish in a stream, there will ALWAYS be a tongue, or two or three, of faster water between you and the fish. (This was delcared on the third tablet containing the commandments. Moses left that tablet behind because it also had a map to a great fishing spot and he didn't want anyone else to see it.) The instant that your fly touches down in just the EXACT spot where you want it, the line or leader will drop into the tongue of faster flow and pull your fly across the water like a little jet skier. Oddly, fish find this unnatural behavior threatening and your fish will crawl under a rock and stay there for the next two hours. The cure is upstream mends referenced in another post.
2. A mechanical tensioning device that keeps your reel from overrunning when line is stripped by a large fish; also provides resistance, helping wear the fish down for landing. In the event you hook a true trophy fish, the drag will choose that moment to malfunction and freeze your spool, causing the tippet to snap. Many anglers prefer a reel with an exposed spool rim, (as opposed to caged) allowing them to exert drag pressure on the rim with the palm of their non-rod hand. If you hook a real trophy fish, you will become overexcited and either lock up the spool with your hand, causing the tippet to snap; or amputate your index finger with the whirling reel handle, causing YOU to snap and forget about the fish.
3. An experience, such as flyfishing in the middle of a blizzard hatch while not having a fly to match it. Fish are boiling all around you and you can't hook one to save your life. This is a real drag.
4. An angler's clothing ensemble. If you see a very large hairy man flyfishing in pastel waders, a pink vest, a flowered hat and a chiffon scarf; you might best avoid him. Otherwise, your day might become a real drag.

Tippet. Between the fat and very visible fly line and your fly will be a leader. Generally the leader is made up of graduated diameters of monofilament, with the largest diameter being closest to the fly line and the smallest attached to the fly. That last section attached to the fly, is the tippet. Most anglers carry several spools of tippet material so that they can amend their leaders to meet the demands of conditions and fish. It never makes any difference, because the exact tippet material you need was on the empty spool in your vest pocket that you forgot to replace after using it up on your last trip.

Floating line. A fly line designed to remain on or in the the water's surface film. A GOOD floating line will set you back $50 and up. However, when stepped on, sharply and repeatedly bent, or cracked like a whip it will become

Sinking line. A fly line that penetrates the surface and sinks generally dragging the fly with it - even if you don't want it to. Lines intentionally maunfactured to sink come in a variety of sink rates varying from 1/2" to around 8" per second. Some lines have interchangeable tips of varying sink rates. No matter which interchangeable tip you have on your line when you arrive at a location to fish, it will be the wrong one.

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[AndyK]

Great stuff Old Coot! I'm saving some of those for future reference, especially the one about drag!

[uflyfish2]

"No good mother $TB TYB%^ Sonova F%$&*% !!!!!

Term used to describe a large steelhead just after a roll on the surface, in close proximity to the angler, as the fly comes to rest in a tree branch, somewhere behind the angler, up the bank, in the opposite direction of the original foreword cast...:excited: