Dictionary definition: dry fly

Article: FISHING TWO FLIES AT ONCE WILL INCREASE CHANCES; IF THE ...
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  March 20, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... their Hatches," said he fishes a dry fly and a nymph simultaneously "about ... his tandem rig, Meck first knots a dry fly to the tippet of a standard tapered ... diameter - and ties it to the bend of the dry fly hook. Finally, he ties a nymph to ...

Article: Dry fly buzzes back in the fray.(News)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  August 16, 2005 ;     700+ words ...In the past decade the dry fly has made a dramatic gain in popu ... few anglers would dream of using a dry fly as it was considered the prerogative ... either. I first learned to fish the dry fly when in my teens. In fact it was ...

Article: Dry Fly Magic.(dry-fly fishing)(Brief ...
Sports Afield;  May 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...DRY-FLY FISHING has always been considered classy ... ones at the head. The idea is to put your dry fly upstream of a feeding trout and let it drift ... from fish to fish. One of the most common dry-fly fishing mistakes is to set faster when you ...

Article: Fishing line: It's dry-fly Freddie: lock up your ...
The Independent - London;  May 19, 2002 ;     664 words ... ... fishing on chalk streams was with a dry fly. Hyam later changed his name to Halford ... thesis was taken very seriously. Dry- fly fishing means using an artificial ... ruled it was unacceptable to cast a dry fly randomly. You could only do so if ...

Article: Dry Fly Distilling Picks up in Washington State ...
Business Wire;  September 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... State since the days of prohibition. Dry Fly Distilling, Inc., is about to hit ... 31-32 for the 750ml bottle of Dry Fly Washington Wheat Vodka and $30 for Dry Fly Washington Dry Gin. Whiskey pricing ...

Article: Plying the deceptive art of the dry fly
The Press;  March 5, 2001 ;     687 words ... ... caught his first-ever trout on a dry fly last week. He was fishing Lake Moeraki ... the first fish they ever caught on a dry fly, and rightly so. It's a way of ... trout. For a start, just getting the dry fly on the surface without spooking every ...

Article: TROUT BUMS -- Dry-fly nobbery comes and goes
Yakima Herald-Republic;  February 24, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... meant.) It wasn't that I was a dry-fly snob; back then, if I wanted to ... don't want to nymph. I become a dry-fly snob. It usually sets in after a month or so of really good dry fly action. When I get this way, any ...