cast v Cp OED ~ v 6 'throw forth ... a net.' In fishing for caplin, to secure a catch with the use of a 'cast-net'; TUCK v.
   [1954] 1979 Evening Telegram 22 June, p. 9 The harbour at Holyrood was literally alive with fishermen and
   boats-some jiggin' cod and others castin' caplin. T 190-65 The first of June we cast our first caplin. M 68-23 The caplin were cast about three or four miles out the bay from Glovertown, brought to the beach in boats, loaded on a box-cart and hauled to the potato ground by horse. 1971 CASEY 39 We'd leave here after twelve o'clock [midnight] to go fishing. Now we'd go out aback of the Head and cast caplin. 1979 TIZZARD 283 We would go to Tizzard's Cove, Broad Cove or some other sandy beach on Trump Island and there father would cast the caplin with the castnet he made himself. Ibid 285 On the way to the fishing grounds in the early morning the fisherman would stop into some cove and cast his bait box full of caplin.

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