How to Use sunfish in a Sentence

sunfish

noun

• At the dock, a friend weighed the sunfish and the scale read 1 pound, 12 ounces.
  — David Strege, USA TODAY, 14 May 2022
• The two have just come across a sunfish and Bergin is losing his mind.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2015
• One rod can be rigged for bass while the other can be rigged for sunfish.
  — Kirk Sides, Houston Chronicle, 13 July 2020
• Bass, carp and sunfish can be found in warmer lakes, reservoirs and rivers all over the country.
  — Outside Online, 9 May 2022
• Anglers have been catching bass, sunfish and northerns and, in the evening hours, some walleyes.
  — Star Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
• The same side has yielded scores of sunfish — redbreasts and bluegills, some weighing a pound or more.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 12 May 2018
• For ice-out trout, perch, and sunfish, try using half a garden worm.
  — Will Ryan, Field & Stream, 5 July 2023
• Shore fishing in the park is best during the spring when crappies and sunfish are in the lagoons and shallows.
  — Bob Timmons, Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
• To be fair, the sunfish (Mola mola) is a pretty weird fish.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2015
• More than once in this pool, a lure intended for a bass or sunfish has been grabbed by a catfish.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 12 May 2018
• German’s close encounter with a sunfish isn’t the first time the sea creatures have stirred up viral waves.
  — NBC News, 13 Dec. 2021
• Tipping the jigs with waxworms can help tempt steel, but fallfish and sunfish often beat the steelhead to the bait.
  — Jimmy Fee, Outdoor Life, 9 Apr. 2020
• In 2019, a New Jersey man spotted a sunfish in his own backyard.
  — CBS News, 20 Oct. 2022
• Mueller said more perch and sunfish may be planted later.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2021
• Both of these bass are members of the sunfish family, as are also black bass.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 14 Sep. 2023
• The sunfish's head had a large contusion, which was likely caused by a heavy impact.
  — Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2022
• What gives with all the super-sized redear sunfish at Havasu?
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 22 May 2021
• Boronda Lake has small bass, catfish, bluegill and sunfish.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 18 Aug. 2020
• Early in the season, Genz targets emerging weed beds that hold pre- and post-spawn sunfish.
  — Steve Hoffman / Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 22 June 2019
• Bait fishing with live sunfish that sit on the bottom is very effective for this.
  — Kirk Sides, Houston Chronicle, 13 July 2020
• June serves as trigger June is spawning season for most of Texas’ sunfish.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 3 June 2018
• Fishing is done at the Hunt Club Park pond where largemouth bass, sunfish, catfish, bluegill and crappie can be snagged.
  — Sheryl Devore, Lake County News-Sun, 3 July 2018
• The spring pygmy sunfish was twice thought to have already gone extinct, but a population was found in the Beaverdam Spring Complex, very close to the site of the plant.
  — Dennis Pillion, AL.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• Willing panfish species like bluegills and sunfish can make the day go fast and there’s always a chance for a big bass or catfish to come coasting by and take the bait, even in the cold.
  — Jim Gronaw, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 5 Dec. 2021
• Despite being the largest bony fish in the world and weighing more than two tons, sunfish are quite elusive, which made the four-year search difficult.
  — Hannah Lang, National Geographic, 20 July 2017
• In clean waters, sunfish of suitable size are tasty catches.
  — Popular Science, 1 June 2020
• Each year, the club stocks the pond with trout, but there are also plenty of catfish, sunfish, and other varieties that make their home there.
  — Annie Gentile, Courant Community, 17 May 2017
• Alongside Hyde and his son, Drashawn Jones was reeling in small fish after small fish — bluegill, crappie, sunfish.
  — Matthew Ormseth, courant.com, 29 Apr. 2018
• The Wacky rigged worms could do well in the Potomac River for smallmouth bass and those big sunfish as well as take channel catfish, carp, crappie and walleyes.
  — Bill May, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 20 Mar. 2021
• For clarity, the sunfish family also includes the black bass gang, along with the ‘tweener species, like black and white crappie.
  — David A. Brown, Field & Stream, 11 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024