threadfin
IPA: θrˈɛdfɪn
noun
- Any of many fish of the family Polynemidae.
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Examples of "threadfin" in Sentences
- At those times the crabs are prey to moi (Pacific threadfin), shoreline fish with a taste for ghost crabs.
- As the waters cool in early winter, vast schools of threadfin shad start to bunch up while slowing their open-water activity.
- The demersal communities include croakers and the threadfin in nearshore waters, and sea bream and driftfish in deeper waters.
- Both crayfish and threadfin shad are common forage for bass here, which makes both diminutive jigs and shad-imitating crankbaits logical choices.
- Nor is it merely the dramatic decline of other fish, including longfin smelt, threadfin shad, juvenile striped bass, green sturgeon and Central Valley
- Alewives in northern lakes and threadfin shad in southern lakes areboth short, deep-bodied baitfish — and big-time bass food — that a Shad Rapimitates perfectly.
- Nine times out of 10 when he finds gannets, pelicans, or terns diving on bay anchovies, pogies, or threadfin herring, he also finds a school of redfish feasting on the same bait.
- When the first cold breath of winter arrived, white bass that spent most of the year in the inland sea that is 180,000-acre Toledo Bend, roaming the open water in large schools, chasing, attacking and devouring threadfin shad, began moving up the lake.
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