Capt. Bruce Borges (508-999-1263) leads lightacklele (fly, casting, spinning) fishing tours, in addition to lobstering, on his boat, the Wahini.
Women in Gbangara could be seen last week pounding cassava into powder while men spun fishing nets or sliced bark off branches with machetes.
— Patrick Farrell The Guardian: A vegetarian spin on fish and chips.
New players arrive every five minutes or so, each loudly announced, at which point several bodies peel away from the mass and reconvene around their new target on the other side of the room, a little like fish spinning out of a bait ball and trying to strike out on their own.
He certainly couldn't, however, do a one-handed handstand balanced on the back of a chair, swing from a trapeze by his toes, or fling himself across the stage like a flying fish, spinning in mid-air before flopping flat on the floor, and all of this to the live accompaniment of three of his own string quartets.
It is generally thought to have originated in 1898 when Indiana University psychologist Norman Triplett asked children to spin a fishing reel as fast as they could.
Around Bariloche, in the Lake District, there's fly-fishing, spinning and trawling for trout.
Brendan gave in and picked up a spinning rod and fished deep.
Of those that remained many were now crofters: poor families living on "crofts"—very small rented farms with indefinite tenure used to raise various crops and animals, with kelping, fishing, spinning of linen and military service as important sources of revenue.
Jinja, where Lake Victoria pours into the Nile, is a favoured tourist spot but was once also a thriving town, refining sugar cane, canning fish and spinning cotton.
