Sentence examples for off the fly from inspiring English sources

With all the self-control I could muster, and knowing that the very next cast with the Popsicle could result in a strike, I clipped off the fly and knotted on a Pink Pollywog.

He clipped off the fly, a slender, glittery imitation of the bait fish commonly known as the sand eel, and replaced it with a more discreet morsel: a small crab imitation of his own invention, tied with feathers of muted earth tones.

Water, coming off the fly line as I stripped it in, froze in the guides that hold the line close to the rod, and so jammed the line that it was uncastable; so I went up the rod from bottom to top punching out little disks of ice with my thumb until I could make another cast and watch a fresh torpedo come out of the vegetation.

Did Eddie Brock a journalist pick that line up somewhere and actually think it would work, or was it just off the fly?

The Bulldogs held off the Flying Dutchmen in the remaining five minutes.

Only a single defender stood between Farrell and a three-man overlap but when he attempted to fire a long pass out to Kelly Brown the ball slipped off the fly-half's fingers and went forwards.

Scrum-half Edoardo Gori was sent to the sin-bin for tackling Flood without the ball after an attempted grubber bounced off the fly-half and threatened to bring the first try, yet England again struggled to capitalise.

"Cigarette?" I don't smoke but I take it hoping the smoke will ward off the flies.

Listen for the piece of key information you left off the flyer.[35].[35]

Not only does lavender smell delicious, but it will scare off the flies.

Upon deciding to carry out a flying kick, start by pulling off the flying aspect of it.