dry fly
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6.7
- noun
- /draɪ flaɪ/
- Specialized
:
mosca seca
- I do miss fishing with dry flies, though.
- dry fly fishing
- cast a dry fly
- fish with dry flies
Examples
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He tied his own dry fly lures to mimic the local insects.
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I won't be abandoning my dry flies for just sakasa kebari, but I will be trying the single fly technique more often.
Blog text (17) -
The water is fishing pretty well with a dry fly.
Fiction book (1997) -
Then I guess those dry flies are gonna stay dry for a while.
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As I mentioned above, my dry fly was a size 10 Yellow Stimulator, and for the record, I caught 6 fish on the dry!
Blog text (28) -
Like you, I'm primarily a dry fly fisherman.
Blog text (17) -
Fishing dry flies with a tenkara rod was so effective and fun that I was hard-pressed to try something different.
Blog text (17) -
The guide handed the old man his fishing gear—a bamboo fly rod with an old Pflueger reel and a tiny wooden box of dry flies.
Fiction book (1997) -
When fly fishing, I prefer using a dry fly to entice the fish at the surface.
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Many anglers believe that the best technique for catching trout is using a dry fly on calm waters.
Synonyms
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7.9
A small artificial insect used to catch fish
Antonyms
How Attractive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun is compositionally built from 'dry' (not wet) and 'fly' (a fly or fly-lure), so its sense as a fly that stays dry/ floats on the water surface is directly inferable from the parts. This follows regular English compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent meanings can reasonably predict the MWE's meaning (though precise fishing usage may need contextual confirmation).
Etymology
Dry fly comes from fishing: it is a small artificial fly that stays dry and floats on the surface like a real bug. Because it looks like a bug on top of the water, fishermen use it to tempt fish, so 'dry fly' means a floating fishing lure.