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He next puts the knots of the casting-line through a severe trial; replaces an unsound joint with a fresh link of gut, and finally produces out of his hat a "hook" -- he will not call it a fly -- of his own dressing.

Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

Do not have them dressed on too fine gut, as they are apt to get twisted round the casting-line (usually called "riding the line"), and put you to the trouble of straightening them out every few minutes.

Scotch Loch-Fishing William Senior

For this class of fishing, the flies should be dressed with loops, and the bob should be fixed to the casting-line by means of

Scotch Loch-Fishing William Senior

I found in my book a casting-line of double gut: it was only two yards long, but I thought I had better trust to it than the single gut which the fish had been breaking for me the last two days.

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

My casting-line bore a family resemblance to grocery string.

The Joyful Heart Robert Haven Schauffler 1921

To check that fierce rush by a hundredth part of a second meant the snapping of the delicate casting-line, or the smashing of the pliant rod-tip.

Days Off And Other Digressions Henry Van Dyke 1892

He was not towing the boat, of course; for only an ignoramus imagines that a salmon can "tow" a boat, when the casting-line that holds him is a single strand of gut that will break under a strain of ten pounds.

Days Off And Other Digressions Henry Van Dyke 1892

Then I gently lifted the line, and very elaborately tested every link of the powerful casting-line.

Angling Sketches Andrew Lang 1878

Again and again I tried this method, invariably hooking the trout, though the heavy short casting-line and the big fly fell very awkwardly in the dead stillness of the water.

Angling Sketches Andrew Lang 1878

I saw that the casting-line had a link which seemed rather twisted.

Angling Sketches Andrew Lang 1878