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dry fly
noun
- an artificial fly designed for use on the surface of the water.
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Example Sentences
I must not forget to mention dry-fly fishing, which is particularly suitable for women.
There was none could coax a trout from a glass-clear pool with a dry fly like Alan Campbell.
Outside a dry-fly rasped the brooding silence up and down with its fret-saw refrain.
But none of the old anglers, to my knowledge, was a dry-fly fisher, and Izaak was no fly-fisher at all.
Our ancestors, though they did not fish with the dry fly, were intent on imitating the insect on the water.
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