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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