fly rod

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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

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

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2022

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.

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2022

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