The woman picked out a sunfish and prepared to go into the house.
I have caught some fine fish, and want you to broil this sunfish immediately, do you hear?
There were fewer long-eared sunfish present each year, and average size increased slightly.
This fish provides some sport for fishermen, especially in the smaller streams, but I found few green sunfishthat were larger than six inches T.
Hasler and Wisby (1958) have shown that green sunfish exhibit a homing reaction.
The differences in order of abundance obtained by the two methods for green sunfish and channel catfish young-of-the-year are not great.
Collections in other pools at this station indicated that long-eared sunfish maintained a high level of abundance throughout my study.
It can be seen that the stoneroller, green sunfish, long-eared sunfish and golden redhorse follow each other in the same order in both calculations.
Why, then, should the heart of Sahwah the Sunfish suddenly flutter at this casual meeting of the eyes with the man across the way, and why did she turn sharply around and look out of the window?
Within the placid pools of the brooks and larger streams of the State this sunfish has its favorite haunts.
Years are thus doubtless spent by these long-eared sunfishin a dreamy sort of existence, their energies quickened by the vernal season and growing duller on the approach of winter.
The sunfish "hung motionless" in the water, their heads towards me, holding their position only by a slow flapping of their dorsal and pectoral fins.
The Blue Sunfish (Lepomis pallidus) is a very common and widely-diffused species.
When we look at the sunfish from the front we see that it has a sort of face, not unlike that of higher animals.
On our sunfish we see that the opercle ends behind in a long and narrow flap, which looks like an ear.
The under side of the sunfish is paler, and most fishes have the belly white.
In the femalesunfish the ovaries consist of two granular masses of yellowish tissue lying just below and behind the swim-bladder.
The rays thus fashioned are called spines, and they are in the sunfish stiff and sharp-pointed.
Any of the bony fishes may be chosen, but for our purposes the sunfish will serve as well as any.
The sunfish and the horned pout are home-loving fishes to a greater extent than the others which I have mentioned; still, where no obstacles prevent, they are sure to move about.
When the sunfish is taken out of the water its colors seem to fade.
The food of the sunfish is made up of worms, insects, and little fishes.
In our sunfish they are short and thick, seeming not to amount to much but in a herring they are very long and numerous.
Something flashed in the sunlight, and, the next moment, a little sunfish landed flapping on the deck, right in front of the sleeping black cat Snoop.
All of the leaders are down at the baseball field," Sunfish assured him.
Sunfish had carried him safely out of the stampede and he had no fear of him now.
But instead of unsaddling, as he would naturally have done, he tied Sunfish to the bed-wagon and threw his slicker over his back to protect him from the rain.
Presently he was galloping along behind and wondering dully how he got there, though perhapsSunfish knew well enough.
So long as Sunfish had footing he braced himself against the mad rush of waters and forged ahead.
Then, with Mona once more in the saddle, and with Thurston leading Sunfish by the bridle-rein, they trailed damply and happily up the long ridge to where the white tents of the roundup gleamed sharply against the sky-line.
As before, now Sunfish battled as seemed to him best, for Thurston, astride behind the saddle, held Mona somewhat tighter than he need to have done, and let the horse go.
Sunfish scrambled with his feet for secure footing, found it and waded up to the front door.
Sunfish threw up his head and listened, muscles a-quiver.
If they hit us, give Sunfish his head, he's been there before--and keep on the outside!
Thurston, in that instant, came near jerking Sunfish around to follow; but he checked the impulse as it was formed and left the reins alone which was wise.
Of a sudden the horse's head went under; the black water came up around Thurston's throat with a hungry swish, and Sunfish went out from under him like an eel.
Thurston kept close behind, mindful of Park's command to give Sunfish his head.
It furnishes an example of a parasite perpetually striving to perform an act which it cannot accomplish; for, in order to arrive at sexual maturity, it must wait until the sunfish is devoured by a shark.
I have seen the liver of an adult sunfish so infested by these parasites that the whole organ might be fitly described as a mere bag of worms, the immature strobiles being inextricably coiled together and defying separation.
Five or six examples of the sunfish have been examined by me in the fresh state, all of them being infested by tetrarhynchs.
At such a time the sunfish would be easily overcome by its natural enemies, and be the first to succumb in the struggle for existence.
Although green sunfish up to eight inches in length were common in the shallow pools, no other species was found.
The green sunfish was taken at 45 of 60 stations, which is the greatest number recorded for one species.
At the uppermost pool (G-17) only small green sunfish were found.
This sunfish was usually the dominant species in collections made from the Elk River, where the relative abundance ranged from 10 to 30 per cent.
The orangespotted sunfish was found in every stream surveyed, although only one specimen was taken from the Arkansas River.
The orangespotted sunfish is widespread in Kansas and seems to be a diagnostic constituent of the Plains Fauna.
In Big Caney River the longear sunfish shared dominance with the redfin shiner (Notropis umbratilis) at almost every station.
Green sunfish constituted a minor but consistent part of the fauna in Big Caney River except for some intermittent pools on small tributaries, where it was high in relative abundance.
Its waters are deep and clear, and flow over a rough, gravelly bed, and under high banks, and through many a little nook where the perch and sunfish love to hide.
It was a favorite place for sunfish and perch; and the boys landed, and were rigging their poles, intending to catch some for their dinner, when they heard a strange noise, that seemed to come from the bay behind the point.
Whenever I get my hand on a thin, light, stiff reed pole and a long, light line of thread with a little hook, then I revert to boyhood days and sunfish and chubs and shiners and bullheads.
As a boy, fishing was a passion with me, but no more for the conquest of golden sunfish and speckled chubs and horny catfish than for the haunting sound of the waterfall and the color and loneliness of the cliffs.
I used to love to watch the sunfish leap, they are so round and glistening and awkward.
I), and the visceral anatomy is in all cases sufficiently like that of the sunfish (Fig.
Apomotis cyanellus, the blue-green sunfish or little redeye, is very widely distributed from Ohio westward, living in every brook.
Clarence, when Mrs. Tarbro-Smith visited it, was no more typical of middle Iowa than a sunfish really resembles the sun.
All the members of this sunfish and bass family are carnivorous fishes especially characteristic of the Mississippi valley.
The species ofsunfish named, or some closely related species, can be obtained in any brook or stream in the United States.
It will be seen that the sunfish has no neck and we may say, also, no back.
The sunfish is less greedy and its mouth and teeth are smaller, though it too eats other fish.
The sunfish lays its eggs in the spring in a rude nest it scoops in the gravel, over which it stands guard with its bright fins spread, looking as big and dangerous as possible.
In the few places where a sunfish cannot be had, any species of bass or perch may be used.
Nearly all the thirty species of sunfish found in the United States have this black ear, but some have it long, some short, and in some it is trimmed with yellow or blue instead of scarlet.
The body of the sunfish terminates behind in the caudal fin, a series of cartilaginous rays connected by thin skin and attached to a bony plate at the end of the backbone.
When sunfish cannot be kept fresh for study in class, specimens may be preserved in alcohol or 4% formalin.
Sunfish live in ponds and sluggish streams in deep holes under a log or at the foot of a stump.
Make a drawing of thesunfish from a lateral aspect, showing the external parts named.
The sunfish or "pumpkin-seed" lives in quiet corners of the brooks and rivers, preferably under a log or at the root of an old stump.
Nugget amused himself until dinner time by fishing at the mouth of the run, and caught a number of sunfish and chubs.
Far away from land these strangeSunfish are met with, asleep near the surface, with the back fin showing above water.
The mouth is very small, and has no real teeth; so the Sunfish lives on small prey, such as the young of other fish, or small shell-fish.
No interspecific activity was noted between the sunfish and the red shiners.
Orangespotted sunfish were seen nesting on the same dates as Lepomis cyanellus.
The one is small, dainty, translucent, and active, swimming free in the water near the surface and able to take care of itself when pursued by a sunfish or bass.
But when the sunfish is out of the water, strung on a willow rod, and dried in the sun, the boy sees that a very little fish can make a good deal of a fuss.
When the time comes, the sunfish makes its nest in the fine gravel, building it with some care--for a fish.
Anything from a dead lamprey or a bunch of sunfish eggs to a piece of tomato can is grateful to him.
But there are fishes which are unquestionably fish--fish from gills to tail, from head to fin, and of these the little sunfish may stand first.
The scales of the sunfish shine with all sorts of scarlet, blue, green, purple, and golden colors.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sunfish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
