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Definition of Fly-fishing
1. Noun. Angling with an artificial fly as a lure.
Definition of Fly-fishing
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of fly fishing) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fly-fishing
Literary usage of Fly-fishing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fishing with the Fly: Sketches by Lovers of the Art, with Illustrations of by Charles F. Orvis, A. Nelson Cheney (1886)
"THE charms of fly-fishing have been sung in song and story from time immemorial
by the poetically gifted devotees of the gentle art, who have embalmed the ..."
2. The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1904)
"fly-fishing, or fishing at the top, is, as I I—} flj said before, of two sorts;
with a natural and J. 0 living fly, or with an artificial and made fly. ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The most noticeable is MG Albert Petit's La Truite de riviere (1897), an admirable
book on fly-fishing. As yet, however, though there are many enthusiastic ..."
4. The Twentieth Century by Caroline Farrar Ware (1908)
"You do not suffer such obloquy in fly-fishing. If you catch many trout, you are
acknowledged to be a skilled hand ; if on a good day you catch none, ..."
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