BIG KAHUNA QUIZ #1: Can you answer these fishing trivia questions?

This is Big Kahuna Quiz #1. Winner gets Best Answer AND three fishing flies hand-tied by me. Note -- the “points” mentioned here don’t refer to Y!A points. They’ll be used to tally a score and determine the winner. If you don’t know the rules, e-mail me BEFORE you post your answer, and I’ll set you straight. Remember, early answers get no advantages, so don’t answer hastily. This quiz will be open until the end of Sunday (midnight). You may find some of these questions challenging, but even if you don’t know anything about fly fishing, you can still win this thing with Internet research. GOOD LUCK.

1. This nymphing technique, which employs two or three weighted nymphs and almost no real casting, is named for an Eastern European country where the technique may or may not have originated. For bonus points, name the river in England where this technique took the world stage in 1990 and began to gain popularity.

10 points + bonus

2. Even though it's called a "Little" guidebook, it's 224 pages long; and even though it's full of "golden rules," its cover is actually this color. For bonus points, what are the actual dimensions of the volume?

10 points + bonus

3. Some people can do this with their fingers, but you can also use a special tool -- it’s the last step in most fly patterns.

10 points

4. This term refers to a ceremonial religious scarf that originated in the 1300s, but it’s also a piece of fly fishing tackle.

10 points

5. Named for the river in Scotland where it was developed, this fly fishing method involves long rods and heavy lines cast with both hands.

10 points

6. He never wrote a book, and many anglers don’t know his name, but this secretive New Yorker is widely credited with transforming dry fly fishing in the United States by adapting dry fly patterns from the British Isles.

20 points

7. In order to improve its trashfish reputation, the mountain whitefish (Prosopium williamsoni) has been recently and unofficially given this more tropical, perhaps classier sounding moniker.

20 points

8. In terms of hook anatomy, it’s the place one half the hook-eye diameter behind the hook-eye (the same term also refers to a rather abstract stock market statistic).

20 points

9. Fans of this writer and cartoonist included the founder of Patagonia, who said his 1978 treatise on fly fishing might be the best of its kind for beginning fly anglers. For bonus points, name the treatise.

20 points + bonus

10. This is the term for joining strips of different feathers to make patterns, stripes, and color combinations for wings on traditional wet flies, such as the Green Highlander. For bonus points, name the bird feather (no longer commonly or legally available) with distinctive brown mottling used in many traditional wet fly patterns.

20 points + bonus

11. Bonus question: What salmonfly pattern name makes it sound like something you'd find lying on the couch?

Bonus points