How to Use sunfish in a Sentence

sunfish

noun

• Look to ponds, small lakes and reservoirs for sunfish.
  — Chad Mason, Outdoor Life, 3 June 2026
• One rod can be rigged for bass while the other can be rigged for sunfish.
  — Kirk Sides, Houston Chronicle, 13 July 2020
• The two have just come across a sunfish and Bergin is losing his mind.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2015
• Her paws would flash, pinning the gold belly of a sunfish to the grass.
  — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
• Staff have been waving at the sunfish, too, in an effort to cheer it up.
  — Issy Ronald, CNN, 20 Jan. 2025
• For ice-out trout, perch, and sunfish, try using half a garden worm.
  — Will Ryan, Field & Stream, 5 July 2023
• At the dock, a friend weighed the sunfish and the scale read 1 pound, 12 ounces.
  — David Strege, USA TODAY, 14 May 2022
• Bass, carp and sunfish can be found in warmer lakes, reservoirs and rivers all over the country.
  — Outside Online, 9 May 2022
• More than once in this pool, a lure intended for a bass or sunfish has been grabbed by a catfish.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 12 May 2018
• The same side has yielded scores of sunfish — redbreasts and bluegills, some weighing a pound or more.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 12 May 2018
• Anglers have been catching bass, sunfish and northerns and, in the evening hours, some walleyes.
  — Star Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
• The lake also holds strong numbers of sunfish, some up to 8 inches long.
  — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 11 June 2024
• Both of these bass are members of the sunfish family, as are also black bass.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 14 Sep. 2023
• Bait fishing with live sunfish that sit on the bottom is very effective for this.
  — Kirk Sides, Houston Chronicle, 13 July 2020
• Bluegill sunfish are common to lakes east of the Rocky Mountains.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
• The sunfish's head had a large contusion, which was likely caused by a heavy impact.
  — Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2022
• The next day, the sunfish began eating again and seemed more content overall.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2025
• What gives with all the super-sized redear sunfish at Havasu?
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 22 May 2021
• German’s close encounter with a sunfish isn’t the first time the sea creatures have stirred up viral waves.
  — NBC News, 13 Dec. 2021
• Locate a prime sunfish spawning area, and fast fishing is assured.
  — Shannon Tompkins Staff Writer, San Antonio Express-News, 7 June 2018
• When catching sunfish, a very small hook is used and generally no weight is required.
  — Kirk Sides, Houston Chronicle, 13 July 2020
• Shore fishing in the park is best during the spring when crappies and sunfish are in the lagoons and shallows.
  — Bob Timmons, Star Tribune, 13 May 2021
• So goldfish hogged food and space that could have supported more native fish, like sunfish and catfish.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• June serves as trigger June is spawning season for most of Texas’ sunfish.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 3 June 2018
• Tipping the jigs with waxworms can help tempt steel, but fallfish and sunfish often beat the steelhead to the bait.
  — Jimmy Fee, Outdoor Life, 9 Apr. 2020
• Early in the season, Genz targets emerging weed beds that hold pre- and post-spawn sunfish.
  — Steve Hoffman / Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 22 June 2019
• Many different minnow species abound, and various sunfish are in the mix.
  — Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 18 Sep. 2022
• Out of them come scientists, also here to fish, but not for the bream and sunfish that are being caught and released for sport.
  — Wesley Bruer, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
• Also, a major sign for a sunfish is if the fin appears then disappears, only to go up and down over and over again.
  — Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 30 July 2024
• Anglers can catch everything from striped bass and catfish to crappie and sunfish throughout the year.
  — Abby Price, Southern Living, 27 May 2026