Sentence examples for fish on the surface from inspiring English sources

From a distance it looked like penned-up bait, but there were no birds wheeling and diving, no slashing predator fish on the surface.

When I'm awake I fish on the surface of the water, with dry flies bass poppers, and underneath it, with streamers and nymphs.

"If there is a blitz out there -- that's when the stripers or bluefish corner bait fish on the surface, and it's mayhem -- surf fishermen can't reach it and powerboats can't go anywhere near it cause the fish will dive," he said.

Topwater lures are designed to fish on the surface, which diving baits usually feature a lip that causes them to dive below the surface when retrieved rapidly.

Before adding the fish to the tank, place the oxygen filled cover which contains your newly bought fish on the surface of the tank for 2-3 hours.The fish adjusts it to the temperature of the water in the tank during this period.Sudden addition of the fish to a new tank can cause a shock to the fish.

They found bottom fish on the surface-you could put your hand down and pull up cod & eel.

Fishing on the surface, it seems to me now, is an attempt to draw the fish into my world.

I started out fly-fishing on the surface, with poppers for smallmouth bass on a Maine lake.

In a few minutes, some tiny silvery fish appeared on the surface, no bigger than a finger.

In villages the length of the river, church bells tolled in mourning as shoals of dead fish floated on the surface.

With no fish showing on the surface, and the sun now up for over an hour, we decided to blind cast, retrieving small bucktails in sharp jerks.