surf cast

present singular third person surf casts · participle present surf casting · common error unknown tag participle past proscribed sometimes surf casted · common error unknown tag past proscribed sometimes surf casted

1. alternativeAlternative form of surfcast.

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

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

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   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.

   2003, Chris Komisarjevsky, Reina Komisarjevsky, Peanut Butter and Jelly Management, →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.

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

plural surf casts

1. alternativeAlternative form of surfcast.

   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.

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

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   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.

   2011, Stan Ulanski, Fishing North Carolina's Outer Banks, →ISBN