vbl. sb. [f. FLY sb.1] Fishing with a fly (whether natural or artificial).
1653. Walton, Angler, iv. 115. I promised to tell you more of the Flie-fishing for a Trout, (which I may have time enough to do, for your see it rains May-butter.)
1737. Compl. Fam.-Piece, II. ii. 335. In Fly-fishing observe to have always the Wind on your Back.
1818. Scott, Hrt. Midl., xxxii. The best trouting stream in all Lincolnshire; for when you got lower, there was nought to be done wi’ fly-fishing.
1887. Miss Braddon, Like & Unlike, I. i. I am sure with that noble trout stream in your own park you must be fond of fly-fishing.
attrib. 1834. Medwin, Angler in Wales, II. 147. When the fly-fishing season is over, I amuse myself with shooting and hunting, and yesterday killed this Dourghie, or water-dog, as the Welsh call it.
