How to Use croaker in a Sentence

croaker

noun
  • There is John Dory fish from the south to be served along with croaker from the north.
    Gavin Blair, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • One of the masters of using croakers to entice a trout bite, Capt.
    Ralph Winingham, San Antonio Express-News, 28 June 2018
  • But speckled trout, founder, croaker, drum and other marine fish have been found in the traps.
    Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 10 Feb. 2018
  • No more boat rides on Chesapeake Bay to fish for rockfish or croaker.
    Brian Hamilton, SI.com, 13 Sep. 2016
  • Best bait is a live croaker, but plenty are caught on 8 to 12 inch soft plastic swimbaits on wide-gap hooks, as well.
    Frank Sargeant, al, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Live croakers or mullet are a sure thing but big jigs and swimbaits also do the job for these fish, which average 20 pounds and up.
    Frank Sargeant, al, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Rockport — Guide Rhett Price reported a good bite for trout on croakers on the outside beaches.
    Bink Grimes, Houston Chronicle, 9 June 2018
  • But as the sun set along the causeway Thursday, more people were fishing for sand perch and croaker than had shown up to the support the former president.
    Josh Dawsey, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Doing so, officials hope, will restore the land to again suit the smaller, native croaker.
    Sam Lounsberry, The Denver Post, 3 July 2019
  • Commonly caught fish include croaker, perch, speckled trout, sheepshead, sand trout, gafftop and bull reds.
    Emilia Benton, Houston Chronicle, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Large redfish are also running along this bar, and can be caught on live croaker or other baitfish.
    Frank Sargeant, al, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The East China Sea, where mackerel and croaker abound, is China's largest fishing ground.
    Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Thirteen 28-minute episodes follow a young croaker named Darel who goes to war against frog-eating scorpions.
    Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2016
  • Among those in need of protection is the sea cucumber, hairtail and yellow croaker.
    Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2017
  • Smaller reds should also be more active on oyster bars and creek mouths—live shrimp is best for the keeper-size fish, while croakers and other baitfish get the big ones.
    Frank Sargeant, al, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Lassiter usually spends her summer break fishing for spot, croaker and perch near the Eastern Shore.
    Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 19 June 2017
  • Reds will remain active on the bars and off the beaches—live croakers or other baitfish lure the big ones, while the keeper-size fish are readily caught on shrimp, quarter-ounce jigs or gold spoons.
    Frank Sargeant, al, 26 July 2019
  • On Fridays and Saturdays, the community smelled of croaker and perch frying.
    charlotteobserver, 23 Feb. 2013
  • In the 1930s, Chinese fishermen started landing huge catches of a giant croaker fish called the bahaba.
    Adam Elder, Wired, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Those fish included sea trout, red drum (redfish), red snapper, Southern flounder, black drum, catfish and croaker.
    Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2018
  • When the croakers or catfish are problematic at a particular section of the bridge, Falterman will make a big move to a different stretch.
    Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 6 June 2017
  • By the middle of the 20th century, overfishing had decimated the species, so maw traders turned to the next best source, an equally giant Mexican croaker called the totoaba.
    Adam Elder, Wired, 16 Apr. 2020
  • The catch has normally included mackerel, bass, halibut, croaker and rock fish.
    Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2019
  • By the mid-20th century, Chinese demand for certain fish bladders had eviscerated stocks of the giant yellow croaker, which once thrived off China’s coast.
    Joshua Emerson Smith, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 May 2017
  • The area produced five million tons of seafood of up to four dozen species for China alone last year, according to Greenpeace, including crab, squid, yellow croaker, mackerel and a local favorite, hairtail.
    Steven Lee Myers and Javier C. HernÁndez, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Ocean fishing turns up perch, corbina, croaker, cabezon, shovel-nose guitar fish and sand shark — and on full moons in summer — bare-handed hunting for California grunion, which spawn on sandy SoCal beaches (fishing permit required).
    Roy M. Wallack, latimes.com, 26 June 2019
  • After a crane drops the fish onto the deck, workers pick out the larger species, including juvenile giant catfish and freshwater croaker, before shoveling the silvery trey riel into a barrel.
    National Geographic, 29 Mar. 2017

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