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Fly-fishing   /flaɪ-fˈɪʃɪŋ/   Listen
Fly-fishing

noun
1.
Angling with an artificial fly as a lure.





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"Fly-fishing" Quotes from Famous Books



... to Langley Brook for a day's fly-fishing, and was tramping home across country in a savage humour at my poor sport, when I heard the chatter of small voices, and presently came upon the Scobels and the school-children. The juveniles were in a state of alarm at ...
— Vixen, Volume I. • M. E. Braddon
... flying-fish. Of course, the faster the ship is going, the better the chance of deceiving the fish, since they have less time to study the appearance of the bait. It is really an exaggerated and clumsy form of fly-fishing, and, as with that elegant pastime, much is due to ...
— The Cruise of the Cachalot - Round the World After Sperm Whales • Frank T. Bullen


Words linked to "Fly-fishing" :   angling


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