An artificial fishing fly which is made to float lightly on the water.
as modifier‘dry-fly fishing’
‘The dry fly acts as a float would in coarse fishing and clearly shows a take as it is gets pulled under.’
‘For most of my river fishing I use a rod with a floating line and a nine foot leader together with a selection of artificial dry flies that have barbless hooks.’
‘It is funny how fishing dry flies can make people strike at every sign of movement around the fly; I am hardly one to criticise this, for I too am rather quick on the strike.’
‘This second edition covers all aspects of fly fishing from tiny dry flies for brown trout to those big flies used for stripers and sailfish.’
‘River trouting with a dry fly is all about slowly making one's way upstream, often creeping and crawling into position.’
‘The reason is that it is demonstrably better than monofilament when used with small nymphs and dry flies because it is virtually invisible in water.’
‘Several anglers reported catching fish on dry flies.’
‘Although it is unlikely that the dry fly will be prominent until later in the season, it can do no harm to get into the habit of tying a few early so that your fly box is ready when the trout start moving on the surface.’
‘As more rose it became time to try a small dry fly.’
‘I have taken a lot of grayling in winter on a dry fly.’
‘This dry fly can be deadly during the early part of the season, particularly in late May when there is a hatch of mayflies.’
‘In brighter or calmer conditions, smaller flies are used, or dry flies if fish are showing.’
‘There are generally three different categories of flies in fly fishing - nymphs, dry flies and streamers.’
‘On the Surrey-Sussex borders salmon are fairly regularly caught on dry flies, particularly sedges.’
‘It even pays to try dry flies on occasion, especially if you're river fishing.’
‘But make sure you have some dry flies and nymphs in your fly box so you can cover all possibilities.’
‘It would be foolish to neglect a selection of dry flies in the warmer months as these too can be very productive.’
‘He then talked about his salmon and how they had at times been taken on dry flies in warmer weather.’
‘Taking an aggressive rainbow on a dry fly is akin to pulling the sword from the stone or returning the ring to the mountain - for many, a dream that has its best chance of becoming reality during the very weeks ahead.’
‘Stocked annually by the local council, the residents of this remarkable little stream soon become wild, so fishing for them is best approached at dusk and with a tiny dry fly on a fine leader.’
intransitive verb
[no object]
Fish using a dry fly.
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