Sentence examples for tough fish from inspiring English sources

With his 3-year old daughter, Emily, on his shoulders, Mr. Miller said: "He was a tough fish.

"What we see time and time again is that when the going gets tough, fish take it on the chin," says Rob Masonis, who heads northwest conservation efforts at American Rivers in Seattle.

Studies show that the longer a fish is stressed, the less apt its lactic-acid blood levels are to recede to normal, so a tough fish may thwart even the best intentions to catch and release him.

(166) Drying was a common way of preserving fish (it can keep for years in Arctic climate), and preparation of lutefisk was a primitive way of reconstituting the moistureless tough fish.

Bullheads are extremely tough fish and rarely get hurt without another animal involved.

Goldfish are tough fish, they can survive in abnormally high pH water and are very hardy.

It's tough fishing in the wind with the boat and the fish constantly moving.

And having acquired his taste for striped bass on the small, tender fish of the Rappahannock, he wants none of Point Judith's larger, tougher fish.

In the past several years, however, international fisheries agencies at last implemented tougher fishing restrictions, leading to a tentative recovery of bluefin populations in the Mediterranean.

"Tourists are tough to fish," he explained.

Maybe wild-caught snakes would be gamier, more like alligator or crawdad than tough, chewy fish.