salmon-fishing love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or practice of fishing for salmon; salmon-fishery.

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Examples

  • The four -- former NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe, 54, and his son, Kevin, of Ashburn; William "Willy" Phillips Jr., 13, of Germantown; and Jim Morhard, 53, of Arlington -- survived a hellish night awaiting rescue after the plane crashed into a remote hillside in the rain as the party was returning from a salmon-fishing trip.

    Rain, wind and fog stymie NTSB's investigation of plane crash in Alaska 2010

  • The four -- former NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe, 54, and his son, Kevin, of Ashburn; William "Willy" Phillips Jr., 13, of Germantown; and Jim Morhard, 53, of Arlington -- survived a hellish night awaiting rescue after the plane crashed into a remote hillside in the rain as the party was returning from a salmon-fishing trip.

    Rain, wind and fog stymie NTSB's investigation of plane crash in Alaska 2010

  • The four -- former NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe, 54, and his son, Kevin, of Ashburn; William "Willy" Phillips Jr., 13, of Germantown; and Jim Morhard, 53, of Arlington -- survived a hellish night awaiting rescue after the plane crashed into a remote hillside in the rain as the party was returning from a salmon-fishing trip.

    Rain, wind and fog stymie NTSB's investigation of plane crash in Alaska 2010

  • Maas was "" salmon-fishing on some river, '' according to Michael Dowd, his lawyer, and couldn't be reached.

    Sammy Vs. Son Of Sam 2008

  • She's a salmon-fishing, Bible-thumping, pistol-packing, hockey mom who can hunt a moose, skin it, make a burger out of it for lunch, catch the pastor's Sunday sermon, and also find time to wear a sexy -- but not butch -- power suit the following day for a press conference.

    Wajahat Ali: The Republican Candidates of the [Past] Future 2008

  • (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) CINDY MCCAIN, WIFE OF JOHN MCCAIN: John has picked a reform - minded hockey mom, basketball-shooting, moose-hunting, salmon-fishing, pistol-packing mother of five for vice president.

    CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2008 2008

  • She has worked on commercial salmon-fishing boats with her husband.

    For Many Alaskans, Wasilla 2008

  • My father and grandfather were salmon fishers, the skippers of a salmon-fishing station on the beach.

    The Thistle and the Bee Shoumatoff, Alex 2008

  • In the autumn I had a week's salmon-fishing at Garynahine in the Lews.

    Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson

  • Salmon fly-rods are now made principally of two materials, greenheart and split-cane; the former is less expensive, the latter is more durable; it is entirely a matter of taste which a man uses, but the split-cane rod is now rather more in favour, and for salmon-fishing it is in England usually built with a core of steel running from butt to tip and known as a "steel centre."

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

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