fly rod

Historical Examples of fly rod

• He uses a spinning-rod 11 feet long, or a fly-rod 14 feet long.

  Through Finland in Carts

  Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie

• I need hardly say that fish are not to be lifted out of the water with a fly-rod.

  St. Nicholas v. 13 No. 9 July 1886

  Various

• It was a heavy fish—and Caleb had promised to teach him how to handle that fly-rod!

  Then I'll Come Back to You

  Larry Evans

• Some of those efforts—with rod and gun—are recorded in Wild Spain, and we purpose attempting no more—whether with pen or fly-rod.

  Unexplored Spain

  Abel Chapman

• On other occasions he had left Scotch, a fly-rod, sets of very expensive dry-flies, and dozens of pairs of silk socks.

  The Ambulance Made Two Trips

  William Fitzgerald Jenkins