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

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