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

For a lot of people, work is a prelude to a hoped-for future — maybe a fly rod and a cabin by the river.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2021

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