How to Use fathead in a Sentence

fathead

noun

• Don't be such a fathead!
• The best presentation was a 2- to 3-inch-long fathead minnow live-hooked through the top of its back and fished within a foot of the bottom.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2022
• Out on the flats, consider a small jigging spoon dressed with a small fathead minnow hooked once in front of the dorsal fin.
  — Dr. Jason Halfen, Outdoor Life, 2 Jan. 2020
• The lines were baited with spawn sacs, shiner minnows or large fatheads.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2018
• If stocked into a lake with fatheads or other minnows, the trout grow more slowly, to about eight inches in fall.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2017
• This trait is well exploited by anglers, who chiefly employ live fathead minnows, hooking them through the lips for trolling.
  — Popular Science, 1 June 2020
• Walleye, Northern pike, largemouth bass, channel catfish, fathead minnows, green sunfish and bluegill are found in the lake.
  — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2022
• Red-tails are a favorite among Minnesota anglers whereas shiners and fathead minnows, work just about anywhere.
  — Brian Bashore, Outdoor Life, 21 Dec. 2020
• There are bluegill, yellow perch, channel catfish, hybrid bluegill, redear shellcrackers, fathead minnows, white amur and koi.
  — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 16 Apr. 2021
• Nestled in the northern Wisconsin woods, Peter Lake once brimmed with golden shiners, fatheads and other minnows, which plucked algae-eating fleas from the murky water.
  — Quanta Magazine, 18 Nov. 2015
• Few states, or even countries, can match Minnesota's variety and quality of fish, many of which are dependent on smaller fish — fathead minnows especially — to eat.
  — Matt Delong, Star Tribune, 30 Apr. 2021
• The typical January 6 insurrectionist is a delusional fathead with anger management issues who abandoned the revolution the second the price exceeded that of a round-trip bus ticket to Washington, D.C.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 18 Nov. 2021
• Topics include the impact of lead on the reproductive behavior of fathead minnows and the deleterious effects of alcohol on zebrafish embryo development.
  — David H. Petering, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024