Shells - Summary of names and terms in English

Artificial flies

Bead Head Nymphs - Nymphs with a metal or plastic bead( in our country called goldfinches);

Dry flies - dry flies;

Hornbergs - Horbnberg flies(crinoids with a single wing made from the gray side feathers of the wild duck);

Pike Flies - large wet pike flies;

Salmon Flies - Salmon flies(mostly wet);

Standard Dry Flies - Dry flies with wings(standard imitations of small mayflies);

Standard Nymphs - ordinary nymphs(without weight)

Steelhead Flies - mostly wet flies for Atlantic salmon;

Terrestials - fairly faithful imitations of various organisms( ants, beetles, grasshoppers, crickets, caterpillars, etc)

Weighted Nymphs - nymphs docked;

Wet Flies - wet flies(standard);

Winged Midges - No.20-24 microscopic imitations(with wings) of mosquitoes(size numbers from 20-24);

Wooly Worms - palmer wet flies.

Source: artificial flies, Wojciech Węglarski

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