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Example sentences for "small fish"

  • Any kind of small fish can be potted in this manner.

  • Small fish, like trout, require from four to eight minutes to cook.

  • It is a small fish, weighing from a quarter of a pound to two or three pounds.

  • This is the case with most fishes: a little fish just hatched has most of the tissues and organs of a full-grown fish, and is simply a small fish.

  • This is regarded as the lowest of the Crossopterygians, a small fish of the Lower Carboniferous, the head mailed, the body with small bony scales.

  • It is a small fish, not longer than your hand most likely, but it can take the bait as savagely as the best, swimming away with it with such force that you might think from the vigor of its pull that you have a pickerel or a bass.

  • I have remarked that they do not spare those of their own kind, but that they eat each other up when they can, and I have also seen them devouring very small fish which I put by them.

  • They live on vegetable matter, such as roots and grass; but at Bahia Blanca I have repeatedly seen three or four come down at low water to the extensive mudbanks which are then dry, for the sake, as the Gauchos say, of feeding on small fish.

  • In their flight they frequently twist about with extreme quickness, and dexterously manage with their projecting lower mandible to plough up small fish, which are secured by the upper and shorter half of their scissor-like bills.

  • In fact, the only bait used by those people is in their opinion a composition of charms, inclosed within a bit of fish skin, so as in some measure to resemble a small fish.

  • The fishing obviously depends on the presence of the shoals of small fish, probably young salmon.

  • There were no small fish in the lake they fished, and all were taken on the fly.

  • In an hour and five minutes I brought him to gaff--a small fish.

  • They are said to rise beneath the school of small fish, striking to the right and left with their swords until they have killed a number, which they then proceed to devour.

  • I hooked this fellow, and he showed at once, a small fish, and began to leap toward the boat, making a big bag in the line.

  • A small fish of the Mediterranean; a gilthead.

  • They feed on small fish, which they capture by darting down upon, and upon snails which they get from the beach and ledges.

  • Their food is almost entirely of small fish, which they catch by plunging upon from their perch on an old dead limb overhanging the water, or by hovering in the air like an Osprey.

  • Spinachus or smelt in greatest plentie about Lynne butt where they haue also a small fish calld a primme answering in tast and shape a smelt and perhaps are butt the yonger sort thereof.

  • They bild in holes about grauell pitts wherein is to bee found great quantitie of small fish bones.

  • The real nest of the Kingfisher is a collection of small fish-bones, which have evidently been disgorged by the old birds.

  • They have also been observed to chase and kill small birds, which, as near starvation as themselves, have been unable to fly beyond their reach, and I have even seen a Rook catch a small fish.

  • A portion of one which I have in my possession, and which was taken about twenty years since from a deep hole in an embankment at Deepdale, Norfolk, consists exclusively of small fish-bones and scraps of the shells of shrimps.

  • For big river trout such as those of the Thames a gudgeon or bleak makes the best spinning or live bait, for great lake trout (Jerox) a small fish of their own species and for smaller trout a minnow.

  • In the second a small fish is put on the angler's hook alive and conveys the same idea by its own efforts.

  • For the rest the fish will take almost anything in the nature of worms or small fish, like its cousin the perch.

  • Mid-water fishing, as has been said, broadly consists in the use of a small fish, or something that simulates it, and its devices are aimed almost entirely at those fish which prey on their fellows.


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