When you camp by the seaside, you will catch cunners and other fish that need skinning.
Cunners and lobsters are sometimes caught off bold rocks in a net.
But on this very account it is ever dear to the heart of the juvenile fisherman, who glories in his string of cunners with as much pride and enthusiasm as his larger brothers with their tautog, sea-bass, or striped-bass.
In the meantime, they went fishing and soon had a fine mess of cunners for their camp-lunch.
It was one of the days when, in spite of twitching the line and using all the tricks we could think of, the cunners would either eat our bait or keep away altogether.
I was going out to Black Rock for cunners myself," said the cap'n.
I am going to fish for cunners alone, and keep my line short.
I baited them all fresh with cunners and sculpins last night.
There were plenty of small harbour fish, flounders out in the middle where the water was muddy, and cunners and small rock-cod in among the ledges.
Accordingly he set out, equipped with a short alder pole and line and a basket, to try for some cunners and small cod off the ledges on the seaward side of the island.
We'll get a mess of cunners about these rocks," the squire remarked, as he and Harry made ready.
They worked industriously to the noon hour, only Little Tim knocking off work an hour before the others, in order to go down on the rocks and catch a mess of cunners for their dinner.
Then they went to the camp, where David made a marvelous fish chowder of cunners and cod that Ben had caught that morning.
Here are rocks, about which especially the cod congregate and where sometimes giant cunners dwell, there is a sandy stretch which is beloved of the big flounders, which when hooked make a gallant though unsteady fight before you get them up.
There are cunners big and ravenous at the base of Shag Rocks or along Boston or Martin's ledges.
The cod and the flounders, cunners and pollock will make up the bulk of your catch as you drift along these under-sea moraines, though now and then a freak may come to your hook in the shape of a dogfish or a skate.
If you ask a Hingham boy how the cunners are biting he will be likely to throw rounded beach stones at you, thinking he is being made game of.
She tried for cunners off the rocks at the back of the island and was promptly and efficiently drenched from head to toe by an insolent wave.
She lost two perfectly good cunners doing this, but it was worth the price.
Usually she returned with a string of cunners and shiny polloks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cunners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
