bobfly

English

Etymology

From bob +‎ fly.

Noun

bobfly (plural bobflies)

  1. (fishing) The fly fixed at the end of the leader.
    • 1866, Sir Randal Howland Roberts, The river's side: or, The trout and grayling, and how to take them, page 74:
      This fly is always best as the bobfly on the cast.
    • 1904, Stephen Lucius Gwynn, Fishing holidays:
      a fish came in on the bobfly
    • 1908, The Badminton magazine of sports & pastimes: Volume 26:
      He watched the upper fold of the curved line rolling itself out almost parallel to the lower, and the flies finally alighting upon the surface of the water one after the other in beautiful sequence from the bobfly to the tail.

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