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fly rod

noun

Angling.

a light, extremely flexible fishing rod specially designed for use in fly-fishing.

fly rod

noun

a light flexible rod, now usually made of fibreglass or split cane, used in fly-fishing

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Word History and Origins

Origin of fly rod¹

First recorded in 1675–85

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That said, I’m not quite naive enough to believe that wading into a river with my fly rod has some greater meaning, or that it can cure everything that ails us.

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U.S. archive photos show them near a stream, Roosevelt holding a fly rod and Churchill a cigar.

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Dave’s birthday gift the next year was a rusty, warped bamboo fly rod and reel that his father bought in a pawnshop.

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There is the mythic adventure of trekking to a mountain river, a fly rod in hand for catching wild trout.

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Catching a fish the size of a small person with a willowy fly rod and a fly the size of your thumb is no easy matter.

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Fly River flysch

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