surf cast

English

Verb

surf cast (third-person singular simple present surf casts, present participle surf casting, simple past and past participle surf casted or surf cast)

1. Alternative form of surfcast
   • 2003, Chris Komisarjevsky, Reina Komisarjevsky, Peanut Butter and Jelly Management, →ISBN:

     According to the old fisherman, who always came to that same spot each day to surf cast and look for the perfect striped bass, water came up through the center of the earth from China.

   • 2010, J. Arthur Rath III, Slices of Life in Hawaii - Volume 1, →ISBN:

     So many fishermen surf casted in that rough, rocky ocean that it was always like Easter when we snorkeled only the eggs we hunted were gray, lead fishing weights of various shapes and sizes.

   • 2013, Henry Broder, Killing Little Ralphie: A Coney Island Story, →ISBN:

     It looks like he's going fishing off the pier but maybe he surf casts.

Noun

surf cast (plural surf casts)

1. Alternative form of surfcast
   • 2011, Stan Ulanski, Fishing North Carolina's Outer Banks, →ISBN:

     While it is certainly true that the angler's physical size confers some advantage with regard to achieving a long cast, most surf casts will be well short of the distances (500 to 600 feet) reached by professional casters in tournaments.

   • 2014, William Powers, New Slow City: Living Simply in the World's Fastest City, →ISBN, page 186:

     A fisherman, getting in his last surf casts before the rain, offers it to me. “Blues are too oily,” he says, complaining about the absence of striped bass this year.