When a jacket’s been on the hanger too long, the shoulders get punched out, meaning they become distended. The same principle is behind the term butt-sprung, which describes a skirt that’s distended by the wearer, and now applies to anything that’s...
flymph n.— «Veron “Pete” Hidy, who fished often with Liesenring and who put into print, in the original edition, Big Jim’s ideas and knowledge of wet fly fishing, has added three new chapters on “Flymph” fishing in the updated version. Flymph is...
flymph n.— «Tie the fly on a nymph hook with a tail and you have what some refer to as a flymph.» —“Fishing: Flies for early season trout” by Bill Thompson Conway Daily Sun (North Conway, New Hampshire) Apr. 27, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued...
spey cast v. phr.— «To achieve long casts consistently over a long day of casting, many steelhead fly-anglers in the Northwest have taken up two-handed rods and a technique called spey casting. Traditional single-handed fly casting requires the...
