sportfishing

[spawrt-fish-ing]

noun

1. fishing fish with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sportfishing¹

sport + fishing

Example Sentences

Before the shutdown, Jared Davis used to earn much of his income leading sportfishing tours out of Sausalito on his 56-foot boat Salty Lady.

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JUNEAU, Alaska — A bill before the Alaska House Resources Committee would tighten residency requirements for sportfishing, hunting and trapping licenses.

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The multiyear experiment reflects the changes facing sportfishing as rivers, streams, lakes and ponds warm.

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Just as she, too, began to give up, the skipper of a commercial sportfishing boat spotted an orange smudge bobbing in the water through his binoculars.

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Marine conservation and sportfishing groups called their nets “curtains of death” and pressed for elimination of the gear.

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