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Meaning of wet fly | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A lure for fly fishing designed to be fished beneath the surface of the water.

Equivalents

Suomi uppoperho

Examples

“[…] it was with the wet fly that he really knew happiness, trailing it, subtly, seductively under the surface, tempting the fish on to the hook, feeling their play and reading their mind from the tug and pressure beneath the surface of the water.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

wet food wet gas wet goods wet haze wet heater wet job