Word Finder - fished

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To hunt fish or other aquatic animals.

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She went to the river to fish for trout.

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To search (a body of water) for something other than fish.

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They fished the surrounding lakes for the dead body.

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To use as bait when fishing.

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To (attempt to) find or get hold of an object by searching among other objects.

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He was fishing for the keys in his pocket.

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(followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.

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The actors loitered at the door, fishing for compliments.

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Of a batsman, to attempt to hit a ball outside off stump and miss it.

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To repair (a spar or mast) by fastening a beam or other long object (often called a fish) over the damaged part (see Noun above).

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To hoist the flukes of.

I fished around in the kitchen for matches.

He fished his keys out of her pocket and hurried her towards the parking lot.

He was mostly dead when we fished him out of the bay.

She found her purse, fished them out and threw them to him.

Going down on one knee, he fished in his shirt pocket and came out with a diamond engagement ring.

You want the John Doe they fished out of the bay, huh?

He didn't hunt – that I know of, but we fished sometimes at the pond.

Brandon shoved a hand between the cushions and fished out the cell.

She fished the cell out of her purse and frowned.

Matthew fished peg 66 and caught all his fish on PG's spicy squid baits.

The discoveries that some species of nitrifying bacteria and perhaps pigmented forms are capable of carbon-assimilation, that others can fix free nitrogen and that a number of decompositions hitherto unsuspected are accom fished by Schizomycetes have ut thequestions of P Y Y, P d nutrition and fermentation in quite new lights.

The Algerian reefs are divided into ten portions, of which only one is fished annually - ten years being considered sufficient for the proper growth of the coral.

The pupils sowed their own corn, fished in the streams, and milked their own cows.

Moving up the Pacific coast to British Columbia, we find the musk-rat taking the part played by Vishnu, when in his avatar as a boar he fished up the earth from the waters.

The idea that a boar, or a god in the shape of a boar, fished up a bit of earth, which subsequently became the world, out of the waters, is very well known to the Aryans of India, and recalls the feats of American musk-rats and coyotes already described.'

He didn't hunt – that I know of, but we fished sometimes at the pond.

During testing I personally witnessed anglers who had never fished PVA before successfully mastering the technique in minutes resulting in bigger and better catches.

The senior coarse anglers fished a match on Sunday at the Lily Pools in Ledbury.

Hogganfield is hardly fished at all except by seasoned carp anglers, which is a bit of a shame.

Hugh fished Icelandic Red baits to the back of the island from peg 74.

Fishing peg 75, Dave fished small roach dead baits on a ledger rig 30m out.

As one would expect, casters can be a very productive bait for the rudd when fished light just under the surface in summer.

This event, a Winter Pairs match, was fished in a raging blizzard with a north wind to help cool things down.

The Pool's Holiday bonanza Paul Ringham had a carp bonanza on the Fields End Pool during the Bank Holiday Open fished on Saturday.

Pete Sutton fished peg 70 and took a good 30lb of skimmers, roach and the odd better bream to 3lb.

Nigel Farr and Paul Clark managed 17 bream between them and bits when they fished the area in front of the island.

Time fished roach dead bait close to overhanging bushes.

Fishing an 8m pole Hugh fed caster, hemp and small 3mm pellet and fished double caster tipped with worm on the hook.

Another hot method for mild winter days is a groundbait feeder attack, fished along with worm or red maggots for bream.

Stuart Richfield fished peg 8 mid week and took a good 50lb mixed bag on feeder tactics.

Artificial damsel nymphs can be fished with faster pulls than you'd use with smaller nymphs.

Despite the hot weather, Mike Peers found the bream and tench particularly obliging when he fished peg 68 on the island bank.

John fished a homemade soft pellet paste over a bed of pellet and chopped corn and meat offerings.

The pair fished soft paste to the margins feeding small pellet.

The deep water pegs on the long bank have also fished well with pegs on the long bank have also fished well with pegs 26 28 producing some good bream bags to 80lb.

Daniel float fished luncheon meat over small carp pellets.

I started off on pole fished fluro pinkie on the near side shelf and was immediately into small roach, perch and skimmers.

Andrews successful bait was a grain of corn tipped of with a small red worm which he fished over hemp and chopped corn.

Colin fished a mackerel tail on a ledger rig 4 rod lengths out.

Young Philip Fisher fished peg 4 and had well over 70lb of crucian and a few rudd.

People fished from reed rafts using lines and nets and collected shellfish.

John's other bait was a float fished sprat which had also seen better days, but was still holding together enough to cast.

Simon fished peg 1 catching his fish on PG's spicy squid.

I put both rods out with Maple 8 boilies, fished with small stringers and a scattering of bait around the spots.

This bank has fished very well recently, particularly from the outflows where trotting tactics can work very well.

Whilst most areas have fished well, the dam and early peg numbers continue to fish best to both pole and float tactics.

Lots of silver fish with the occasional tench and crucian, Milton has fished well all week producing bags from 10lb to 50lb.

Adam Clark fished peg 2 early week and took 40lb of bream, roach and rudd and one bonus tench.

Floating Lines Strong Tapered Leaders. I fished a 8lb tippet for the first 2 days and then stepped down to a 6lb.

Despite this he fished on and fed a constant trickle of maggots into his swim, with a static bait over the top.