Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In angling, an artificial fly intended to float on the surface of the water like the natural insect. Also called
floating fly .
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Examples
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Meanwhile, know the color problem pertains just as much to dry-fly fishing for trout, for example, as it does to bass fishing with soft plastics or anything else.
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Dermestid beetle larvae, which very possibly have been chomping away on your expensive dry-fly necks during long months of storage.
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But I didn't expect the Governor's virtual dry-fly clinic yesterday afternoon.
The Flyfishing Governor Tim Romano 2007
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But if you hit that window of opportunity as the water starts to clear, the upper sections of the Colorado explode with some of the best dry-fly fishing in the West.
A STATE-BY-STATE GUIDE TO THE HOTTEST LAKES, RIVERS, STREAMS, AND HONEY HOLES IN AMERICA 2007
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The Lower Sac is red-hot right now for big rainbows, with rubberleg stones and caddis pupae producing the most fish, and increasing dry-fly action just before dark.
Northern California Fishing Report Tim Romano 2007
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We started out early in the morning of a glorious late-summer day and drifted on the current as my father taught me the fine art of dry-fly casting.
Question of the Day 2008
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I was living in northern Michigan and my father and I went dry-fly fishing on the Au Sauble River near Grayling.
Question of the Day 2008
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I was living in northern Michigan and my father and I went dry-fly fishing on the Au Sauble River near Grayling.
Question of the Day 2008
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His advocacy of nymph fishing raised the ire of dry-fly purists, but he won converts by pointing out that rising fish might actually be taking emergers just under the surface.
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To most anglers in the last 50 years, flyfishing has automatically meant dry-fly fishing.
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