streamer fly

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   an artificial fly that has wings extending back beyond the crook of the fishhook

   Broaderfly

Questions about streamer fly

What does streamer fly mean?

streamer fly means "an artificial fly that has wings extending back beyond the crook of the fishhook".

Is streamer fly a common word?

streamer fly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.