Word: backcast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some Presidents have gone fishing." In a radio round-table discussion of The Compleat Angler, Fisherman Hoover reminisced about Fisherman Calvin Coolidge: "He was a good deal of a fundamentalist in economics, government, and fishing, so he naturally preferred angleworms. But . . . he took to artificial flies. However, his backcast was so much a common danger that even the secret service men kept at a distance until they were summoned to climb trees to retrieve his flies." Fishing, summed up Hoover, "reduces our egotism, soothes our troubles and shames all of our wickednesses...
McDermand makes it sound worth going after. He writes of lonely, bone-chilling nights, of the joys of casting, and of trout for breakfast. Up above California's timber line there is just enough brush to shade the water and yet not enough to tangle a backcast. Some of the rock-bound lakes have names like Evolution, some have no names, some have no fish. But mostly they are chockfull of golden trout dying of old age for lack of fishermen...
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