panfish
noun
pan·fish
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Definition of panfish
: a small food fish (such as a sunfish) usually taken with hook and line and not available on the market
Examples of panfish in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
The cool waters of local upground reservoirs are giving up bass, panfish and catfish, including Oberlin, Wellington and Norwalk reservoirs. — D'arcy Egan, cleveland.com, "Lake Erie’s fish of the future have arrived: Aug. 16 Fishing Report," 16 Aug. 2019 When fishermen release big game fish like musky and largemouth bass back into lakes, those fish compete with loons for the same food sources, panfish like crappies and bluegills. — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Loons in northern Wisconsin are raising a mallard duckling after they lost their own chick," 24 July 2019 Still others are known for good fishing, with plentiful brook trout, panfish and smallmouth bass, or geographic quirks like miniature peninsulas and beaches ideal for bird-watching and landscape photography. — Zach Montague, New York Times, "An Adirondack Wilderness All Your Own," 22 July 2019 Humans are also angling for those panfish, further depleting the loons' food source. — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Loons in northern Wisconsin are raising a mallard duckling after they lost their own chick," 24 July 2019 When the waters are calm and clear, good numbers of smallmouth bass, catfish and panfish are being caught. — D'arcy Egan, cleveland.com, "If you aren’t catching walleye on Lake Erie, you aren’t trying: June 14 Fishing Report," 14 June 2019 Wallace also has a few coho salmon around, lots of rainbow trout and panfish. — cleveland.com, "D'Arcy Egan fishing report for May 3: Walleye biting, steelhead hanging around," 3 May 2018 In an audacious whole-lake experiment, bass and panfish are being removed. — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Smith: Can the walleye population rebound in McDermott Lake if bass and panfish are reduced?," 30 June 2018 Joe Zajko, 41, had caught 12 of the popular panfish in about seven hours on the deep waters behind the Francis E. Walter Dam in Luzerne County one day last month. — Jason Nark, Philly.com, "Roxborough man wants to catch Pennsylvania's biggest fish, anywhere, anytime," 8 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'panfish.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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