Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The activity of fishing by casting artificial flies using a fly rod.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or art of casting the fly in angling.
- Casting the fly, as in angling; pertaining to fly-fishing in general: as, a fly-casting tournament.
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Examples
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Seems like it might be difficult for fly-casting though.
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Don Elder of Gresham didn't expect to catch anything Sunday afternoon when he waded through the crowd at Oxbow Regional Park and into the Sandy River to practice his fly-casting technique.
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My old pal Bruce Richards, who just retired as Scientific Anglers 'fly-line guru and is one of the best fly-casting instructors I know, once told me that he tries to find one thing that might help a particular caster and then relays that one thing only.
A BMW-Free Fish Hunt 2009
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Seems like it might be difficult for fly-casting though.
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And would fly-casting that little Yo-Zuri mean that you were flyfishing?
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My old pal Bruce Richards, who just retired as Scientific Anglers 'fly-line guru and is one of the best fly-casting instructors I know, once told me that he tries to find one thing that might help a particular caster and then relays that one thing only.
A BMW-Free Fish Hunt 2009
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At least in this case there will be more actual fly-casting involved instead of the endless lobbing upstream that deep nymphing requires.
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Knee-deep in the Wolf River, 175 miles north of Milwaukee, he was fly-casting on a Saturday afternoon.
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Dave (who, in addition to being a great hunter, writer, and fly-casting teacher is just an all-around awesome guy) made the following interesting comments in a recent post about his son's arrival.
Congrats! 2008
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One of his main goals is to show people that fly-casting isn't the esoteric and mystical sport that it's often made out to be.
The Big Catch: Fly-fishing guru 'Lefty' Kreh of Maryland is still making a splash 2010
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