How to Use skipjack in a Sentence

skipjack

noun

• Burkhart hooked the catfish using a skipjack as bait, the post said.
  — Mitchell Willetts The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 26 Sep. 2022
• Sálazar rigs me up with a live skipjack and sends me toward the apex of our tuna triangle.
  — Michael R. Shea, Outdoor Life, 11 Feb. 2020
• Where a skipjack under sail was not a museum piece but a working vessel.
  — Serena C. McIlwain, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2026
• Catfish continue to bite drifted skipjack or shad baits below the dam and on bluff walls.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 27 Aug. 2021
• Most of the top anglers reported using cut skipjack as bait, though a few also used shrimp.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 11 Nov. 2019
• Best bait is usually cut skipjack, but gizzard shad, worms or chicken hearts also have their fans.
  — Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 30 July 2017
• Catfishing remains good for those drifting cut skipjack on the channel edges.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 17 Sep. 2021
• Crappie fishing remains slow, catfishing good for those drifting cut shad or skipjack around the bluff walls.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 10 Sep. 2021
• Other popular chunk bait includes skipjack herring and bluegill.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 14 June 2023
• Neither the skipjacks nor their harvest probably will ever return to the numbers of their heyday.
  — William Neff, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• The team targeted 20-25 feet of water, using skipjack for bait.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 21 Apr. 2021
• Albacore tuna can reach weights upwards of 50 pounds, while skipjack and blackfins rarely exceed 30 pounds.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 23 Aug. 2023
• Skipjack estimates opening its operation near the end of 2022.
  — Washington Post, 11 May 2017
• The suit has since been amended to allege that the tuna Subway uses is not made with 100% tuna and does not always use skipjack or yellowfin tuna.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 6 July 2021
• The complaint was revised in June of last year to narrow its claims to allege the tuna was not 100 percent sustainably caught skipjack and yellowfin.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 12 July 2022
• Catching the bait is great fun in itself, with a feeding frenzy on the surface, as the skipjack and bonito corral tiny minnows and drive them to the surface of the water, and the birds swirl around them overheard.
  — David Halberstam, Town & Country, 15 June 2023
• The Tennessee River is known for its big blue cats and flatheads thanks to its fertile waters and high production of baitfish including shad and skipjack.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 7 Apr. 2021
• Wheeler is also a great spot to catch a giant blue catfish so long as the water remains cool—fish shoulders of the channel around brush and rockpiles at 20 to 25 feet with cut skipjack.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 25 Feb. 2021
• Story continues below advertisement Fifteen skipjacks now dredge for those oysters on the Chesapeake.
  — William Neff, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• Schools of albacore, bigeye, skipjack and yellowfin tuna circulate widely in the western Indian Ocean.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• From Pickwick Lake, high water has made many areas unfishable, but some anglers are connecting with catfish by drifting cut shad or skipjack just off the channels in slack water areas.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 21 Feb. 2020
• The techniques below all work particularly well for oily, fatty fish such as bluefish, mackerel, swordfish, skipjack, or albacore tunas, many of which are both affordable and sustainable.
  — Jamie Feldmar, Bon Appetit, 24 July 2017
• There’s no better way to experience the Eastern Shore’s boating culture firsthand than by sailing on the 45-foot-long skipjack Nathan, an authentic wooden skipjack available for public sails or private charters on the Choptank River.
  — Katie Riley, Travel + Leisure, 15 Nov. 2025