Cast-net

Quick meaning: Cast-net is a verb meaning (fishing, transitive, uncommon) To throw a weighted fishing net and then pull it back by means of an attached line.

Meaning

(fishing, transitive, uncommon) To throw a weighted fishing net and then pull it back by means of an attached line.

Example Sentences

Silver carps and tambaquis were obtained from a fishfarm and bluegills and Congo tilapias were cast-netted from Paranoá Reservoir.

In South Carolina, as many as 15,000 recreational fishermen buy licenses to cast net for white shrimp over a thirty-day period each fall.

One of the best I knew was Buddy Rogers, a backwoods cracker who cast-netted during the day and spent most of his nights frog-leg hunting.

With regard to barbel, the last direction for chub is a very important one; hundreds of barbel are caught when of mere gudgeon size, either when raking for gudgeon or cast-netting for bait.

Word Forms

• cast-nets
• cast-netting
• cast-netted

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