fly line
Americannoun
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The motion is similar to pitching a baseball, but with the added challenge of controlling a fly line, which occasionally smacks her in the face or hits a bird.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2018
This is where "on the fly" line changes get intriguing: The chess match between coaches becomes apparent as they seek out situational mismatches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2015
Rash is an enormously gifted storyteller who knows exactly how to keep the dramatic tension in his fiction as taut as a fly line with a lunker on the hook.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2015
I am in the bow, with coils of fly line at my feet and my fly rod in one hand and Dixon’s favorite fly held carefully in the other.
From Forbes ● Jun. 18, 2015
I will only say that if you have a grudge against some fisherman give him a fly line of artificial silk, 'most any kind.
From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. Slosson
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