fly-fisher
- a word derived from fly-fish.
Example Sentences
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Outside of his professional life, Brittenham was a passionate fly-fisher with decades of experience.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2025
The 71-year-old writer, activist, expert fly-fisher and new grandfather welcomes me into his town home, just 50 steps from Rattlesnake Creek, to discuss what Michael Pietsch, his editor at Little, Brown, calls his “magnum opus.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2023
Since returning home to Plains, Ga., Jimmy Carter, famed fly-fisher, softballer and jogger, has been honing his skills at yet another avocation.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Gerard, who was a very fair fly-fisher, saw the point at once, and soon came to handle the whip in such fashion as to show promise of eventually becoming as proficient as Dawes himself.
From The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley by Mitford, Bertram
But none of the old anglers, to my knowledge, was a dry-fly fisher, and Izaak was no fly-fisher at all.
From Introduction to the Compleat Angler by Lang, Andrew
