How to Use bonefish in a Sentence

bonefish

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  • For bonefish, the troubles come when there’s too much water arriving at the wrong time.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2019
  • One of the pinnacles of fly fishing is watching a tailing bonefish slurp down your fly and the chaos that ensues.
    — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 17 Jan. 2023
  • An angler with good eyesight and a little luck can snag a bonefish, which, when hooked, goes on a breakneck run 200 yards into the distance.
    — David Coggins, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2022
  • By day guests can prowl the flats between Harbour Island and North Eleuthera for hard-fighting bonefish and barracuda—or snorkel, dive, sail, or kitesurf.
    — Darrell Hartman, Town & Country, 30 Mar. 2015
  • Thousands of acres of mangroves—key to supporting bonefish and myriad other species—were killed when the storm stalled over the region.
    — Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 24 June 2021
  • Whether you’re just getting started catching stripers from the surf or looking for the most advanced fly reels for that bonefish trip of a lifetime, there’s sure to be something that fits your needs.
    — Jerry Audet, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
  • Mangrove snappers, snook, sea trout and bonefish also were biting.
    — Steve Waters, Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 May 2017
  • The current research followed a 2018 study conducted on bonefish in the Florida Keys.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The bonefish averaged seven kinds of drugs in their systems and one particular fish held 17.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2023
  • For fly-fishermen the world over, hooking a bonefish becomes habit forming, a kind of narcotic that keeps bringing anglers back to places like Swain’s.
    — Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 24 June 2021
  • For those who take on big-running fish like bonefish and permit on the flats or kings offshore, the drag is butter smooth and starts without any tendency to stick, even at heavier settings.
    — Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 13 Aug. 2017
  • And catching the fish — whether a lightning-fast Caribbean bonefish or a colossal Pacific salmon — is always a sweet reward.
    — Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 29 June 2018
  • The brothers also have exclusive access to Lime Caye, a shallow flat 40 miles east of Punta Gorda known for its bonefish, permit, and diving sites.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2020
  • During that study, FIU also found pharmaceuticals in bonefish prey, like shrimp, crabs, and smaller fish.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 4 Apr. 2023
  • There is no official definition of the feat, but a Grand Slam loosely consists of catching three of the sport’s most coveted prizes — bonefish, permit and tarpon — in the same fishery, on the same day or trip.
    — Jon Gluck, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2017
  • The atoll is a nature sanctuary that lures bird watchers (for parrots and seabirds like the great frigate and noddy) as well as snorkelers and divers that come to see colorful parrotfish, blacktip sharks, bonefish, and nesting turtles.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Keoni Chang, the corporate chef of Foodland, a statewide supermarket chain founded by an Irish immigrant in 1948, remembers that his great-grandfather ate poke made of oio (bonefish), caught on the flats, the flesh roughly scraped.
    — Author: Ligaya Mishan, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Permit belong to the trinity of South Florida flats fish, along with tarpon and bonefish, that help pump an estimated $460 million a year into the state economy.
    — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 15 May 2018
  • Research has shown that a significant source of postrelease mortality in tarpon and bonefish is shark predation.
    — Popular Science, 11 Feb. 2020

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