fly-tying
Americannoun
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His fly-tying workshop takes up a sizable room on the second floor in the Chanitz house.
From Washington Times • Sep. 2, 2019
Decades later, the pursuit of rare feathers, by legal or illegal means, was taken up by salmon fly-tying experts, whose creations have become ever more esoteric and elaborate.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2018
Avocation had become obsession, locking him in a kind of fly-tying arms race with other practitioners of the art.
From National Geographic • Apr. 23, 2018
Classes range from $7 for a fly-tying lesson to $565 for private fly-fishing coaching sessions with a casting master.
From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2017
While still common in some localities, the species is gradually becoming less abundant, chiefly because of the demand for their feathers for use in fly-tying.
From The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. by Reed, Chester A. (Chester Albert)
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