Example Sentences

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At night flatheads and blue catfish are fair on stinkbait.

From Washington Times • Nov. 13, 2019

Channel catfish is good on stinkbait, cut bait, and live bait for flatheads.

From Washington Times • Oct. 2, 2019

Fisheries officials say the rule changes are needed because there’s been a noticeable uptick in the demand for big flatheads and blues, which have been fetching $2 or more a pound at pay lakes.

From Washington Times • Nov. 22, 2014

In those shows, anglers often employ a bizarre fishing method called “noodling” in which massive flatheads are caught by people sticking their hands into a fish’s underwater lair.

From Washington Times • Nov. 22, 2014

Slowly and steadily with him, else his many brothers will take alarm, and the rest of the carefully laid baits will be left to become the prey of small "flatheads," or greedy, blue-legged spidery crabs.

From The Colonial Mortuary Bard; "'Reo," The Fisherman; and The Black Bream Of Australia 1901 by Becke, Louis