How to Use fly-fishing in a Sentence

fly-fishing

noun
  • On the first day Cooper tried some fly-fishing and found more iron than fish.
    Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • On the first day Cooper tried some fly-fishing and found more iron than fish.
    Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Use size 14 or 16 hook fine steel hooks or fly-fishing hooks when teaching kids to fish.
    Jack Hennessy, Field & Stream, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Dog sledding and winter fly-fishing are fun things to do here.
    Perri Ormont Blumberg, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Want to spend an afternoon up to your waist in a crisp, clear stream, fly-fishing for wild, cunning trout?
    Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The lodges sit on the river Ness and an on-site ghillie (fishing guide) means even beginners will be fly-fishing in no time.
    Freya Bromley, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Nov. 2023
  • And, deeper wax, there’s a place in fly-fishing for magic and intuition.
    Darrell Kunitomi, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • For me, the article wasn’t about fly-fishing, but about being a son, being a father.
    BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
  • My first sporting obsession as an adult was fly-fishing, which brought me to Montana in 1973.
    David Quammen, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Go fly-fishing or learn about fly-fishing at the fly-fishing museum.
    Curbed Staff, Curbed, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Hauser also took his son on a fly-fishing trip in October 2017.
    Francesca Gariano, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Crowds on the half-mile stretch behind the dam, which is reserved for catch-and-release fly-fishing, can get downright congested on a weekend.
    Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2023
  • According to Fox 5 Atlanta, Rosalynn was buried by a willow tree near the edge of a pond where she and her husband were known to practice fly-fishing.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 30 Nov. 2023
  • She and Colter cross paths when Ike, as part of Colter’s preparation, orders him to read up on fly-fishing — the source of more great literature than any other sport, Ike claims.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2023
  • Instead, the fly-fishing guide from Park City, Utah, said the flows fluctuate wildly according to downstream needs, as do the reservoir levels.
    Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
  • In a private ceremony, the former first lady was buried on a sloping lawn on the property, near a pond where the Carters sometimes practiced their fly-fishing.
    Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
  • On offer are guided hikes for all levels, bike rentals, botanical walks, and — in true Alaska fashion — fly-fishing and gold-panning.
    Jacqueline Kehoe, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The river at Deckers was flowing on the higher side on July 4, according to a local fly-fishing shop that operates on the river.
    Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 5 July 2024
  • Curl up and enjoy the view or head out on an adventure, with activities ranging from fly-fishing to horseback riding.
    Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Glenwood Springs is a year-round destination with skiing, snowshoeing, and fat-tire biking in the winter, then hiking, biking, and fly-fishing in the summer.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2023
  • Google executives pitched Bard as a creative tool designed to draft emails and poems and offer guidance on how to get children involved in new hobbies like fly-fishing.
    Cade Metz, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
  • For adventurers, Bryson City is an ideal base camp, with outfitters for biking, fly-fishing, and paddling.
    Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
  • Each villa has a full kitchen, separate sleeping area for the kids, and many activities ranging from Goofy bingo to seasonal fly-fishing trips.
    Karen Cicero, Parents, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The work was a bizarre mixture of utter boredom (fly-fishing data transfer) and exhilaration.
    Ben Lerner, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Here, rates include meals and all beverages; horseback riding; guided hiking, biking, and fly-fishing; kids' and teens' programs; evening barn dances and rodeos; and shuttle service to and from Steamboat Springs.
    Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Travel + Leisure, 28 May 2023
  • Between sleigh rides, dog sledding, fat biking, winter fly-fishing, and wandering along a snow-laden historic Main Street, this town has something for everyone.
    Perri Ormont Blumberg, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Or there are hobbies: globe-trotting, fly-fishing, or as former president George W. Bush has demonstrated, painting.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 28 June 2024
  • After that, drive up to Flathead Lake, the largest natural freshwater lake west of the Mississippi, with over 200 square miles of water for sailing, fly-fishing, and waterskiing.
    Molly O'Brien, Travel + Leisure, 6 Jan. 2024
  • In addition to building houses for the disadvantaged around the world, the Carters also shared a mutual love for bird-watching and fly-fishing, even building a fly-fishing pond on their Georgia property.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Belize has several fly-fishing lodges throughout its northern and southern areas.
    Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023

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