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Minnow, e.g
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baitfish
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n. (context fishing English) Small fish such as minnows that are used as bait to catch larger predatory fish
Usage examples of baitfish.
Florida Bay, and in the skittering baitfish and aristocratic wading birds and all-embracing solitude.
Usually, on a day this calm, dozens of birds would be sitting on the surface, waiting for a signal from sentinels overhead that schools of baitfish were on the move.
With lures and one of the baitfish that had survived the encounter with the manta ray, we began to fish in earnest, knowing that what we caught was the only thing that would keep us alive.
There was a large school of baitfish to the southwest that was being harried by birds and what looked to be much larger fish.
I was glad to spot a school of them herding baitfish as Abbey and I motored up the shoreline.
The barometer dropped and the sky turned a chemical green, and the breakers were full of sand and dead baitfish when they smacked on the beach.
The baitfish seemed to sink like silver coins into the depths, then the swell became smooth-surfaced and dark green again, wrinkling slightly when the wind gusted.
Like the baitfish before the barracuda, Dakar discovered he was unable to bury himself in detachment.
As if on cue, a large gull swooped down, reached for a baitfish, missed, braked with its wings and landed on the water.
Undoubtedly she would have found pleasure in the warmth of Friday's teasing sunrise over Florida Bay, and in the skittering baitfish and aristocratic wading birds and all-embracing solitude.