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Definition of Dry fly
1. Noun. A fly (fisherman's lure) that skims the surface of the water.
Definition of Dry fly
1. Noun. (context: fishing) A fly used in fly fishing, designed to float in or on the surface of the water ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dry Fly
Literary usage of Dry fly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"dry fly.—Fishing with the floating fly is a device of southern origin, and the
idea no doubt arose from the facts that on the placid south-country streams ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1907)
"A dry fly does not invariably fulfil its design. Sometimes it obeys the laws of
matter by going below, and often, when that miscarriage happens, ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1907)
"A dry fly does not invariably fulfil its design. Sometimes it obeys the laws of
matter by going below, and often, when that miscarriage happens, ..."
4. Sport: Attempt at a Bibliography of Books and Periodicals Published During ...by C. M. van Stockum by C. M. van Stockum (1914)
"U S. $ 1.50 3113 Dry-fly-fishing. — Manipulation. — Practical guides. ...
Modern development of the dry-fly-, the new dry-fly patterns, the manipulation nf ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1901)
"with wet or dry fly, dace are far more difficult to catch than trout. This is
due to the lightning rapidity with which they rise, seize the fly and let it ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia of Sport by Henry Charles Howard Suffolk, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo (1897)
"Dry-Fly School—Out of the discussion arose the doctrine of the education of trout.
The chalk streams fishers laid special emphasis upon the virtues of the ..."
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