fly rod

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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.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024

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

From Reuters • Aug. 17, 2023

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

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2022

The way the river on August mornings, when you stand on the cobbles at dawn with your fly rod, smells of rich urgent rot and the beginnings of the world.

From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2021

When he and Linda first moved to Milagro he bought a fiber glass fly rod and some salmon eggs, and that had been one way to work the tension from his system.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols