surf casting
- noun
- /sɜrf ˈkæstɪŋ/
- Specialized
:
pesca desde la orilla
- Many anglers prefer surf casting because it allows them to reach fish that are swimming beyond the breaking waves.
- surf casting rod
- pier and surf casting
The pilots, they're out to their neck with fishing rods, right, surf casting and the waves had slowly walked them out.
- The pilots, they're out to their neck with fishing rods, right, surf casting and the waves had slowly walked them out.
Examples
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The pilots, they're out to their neck with fishing rods, right, surf casting and the waves had slowly walked them out.
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Just before dark, my father sunk a hook into something that snapped the old surf-casting rod he'd found in the shed into a deep C.
Fiction book (1996) -
On warm summer evenings, I enjoy surf casting for flounder along the rocky shore.
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He spent the day surf casting from the beach, hoping to catch some snook.
Synonyms
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5.0
Fishing from the beach by throwing bait or lures into the sea where waves break
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'surf' (breaking waves / the zone of waves near shore) combined with 'casting' (the act of casting a fishing line), i.e. casting into/from the surf. This location+activity pattern is a regular, cross-linguistically common formation, so a B1 learner who knows both words should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Surf casting comes from the image of a person on the beach doing casting, that is, throwing a line with bait into the surf, the breaking waves near the shore. So, it means 'fishing by casting from the shore into the ocean beyond the waves'.