How to Use creel in a Sentence

creel

noun
  • Be aware there is a 21 inch length limit and 2/day creel limit.
    — Tyler Mahoney special To The Star, kansascity, 28 Mar. 2018
  • There is no minimum size or creel limit, and they can be harvested year-round.
    — baltimoresun.com, 1 June 2018
  • The rope that the fishermen severed was free-floating — as is common with creel gear.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The walleye length limit is 21 inches with 2 per day creel limit.
    — Tyler Mahoney special To The Star tyler Mahoney,, kansascity, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The walleye length limit is 21-inches with a 2/day creel limit.
    — Tyler Mahoney special To The Star, kansascity, 6 June 2018
  • Anglers 15 and younger may fish the park pond without a trout stamp, but the daily creel limit is 2 trout per day.
    — Tyler Mahoney, kansascity, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Above it, the chippy shelf holds additional finds, including a fishing creel.
    — Kelly Ryan Kegans, Country Living, 23 Aug. 2023
  • In both states, there are many and varied regulations regarding size, creel and methods for catching trout.
    — Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 27 Mar. 2022
  • The warehouses adjacent to the docks, which used to store nets, creel boxes, and other fishing ephemera, lie empty.
    — Matthew Bremner, Slate Magazine, 24 July 2017
  • Newcomers may require waders, vests, tackle boxes, rods, reels, creels, flies and perhaps even fly-tying equipment.
    — Alexandra Marvar, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2019
  • The daily creel limits remain in effect no matter how many flounder or shrimp or crabs are vulnerable to the taking.
    — David Rainer Alabama Department Of Conservation and Natural Resources, al, 10 Aug. 2023
  • At its center, the harbor sprawls out into an expanse of warehouses, trucks, cars, medium-size trawlers, and squat creel boats loaded with brown crab.
    — Matthew Bremner, Slate Magazine, 24 July 2017
  • For a fresh twist on a floral wreath, gather a cluster in a vintage fishing creel (lined with plastic and a wet floral foam base to keep pieces secure), and hang on your front door.
    — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The wife’s parents are deer, a grandfather is a fox, and leaping trout, rods, and creels suggest the family’s avocation of fly-fishing.
    — Jorge Arango, House Beautiful, 22 May 2019
  • Instead, the department was told to conduct more intensive creel surveys through the year to ensure black rockfish quotas aren't exceeded.
    — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 11 Dec. 2017
  • This year’s edition will include a creel full of angling content, too, from vendors with the latest gear to seminars by leading experts to fishing lodges and guide services.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Wisconsin creel surveys have shown anglers have a clear preference for larger panfish, keeping most bluegills longer than 6 inches and most crappies longer than 8.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 May 2020
  • Be sure to check each state’s regulations (linked below) for season dates, creel limits, and other restrictions on equipment and legal waterbodies.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The data included creel survey information, annual forage assessments by acoustic and bottom trawls and fish examined at weirs.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The creel limit for rainbow trout is five per day with no length restriction, and all anglers 16 and older who are not legally disabled must carry valid Illinois fishing licenses with inland trout stamps.
    — Michelle Mullins, Naperville Sun, 30 Mar. 2018
  • This is crucial to generating solid statistics on fishing pressure and extrapolating total harvest in conjunction with the agency's standardized creel surveys conducted at some of those ramps on other days.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2018
  • The data has produced high quality information on population estimates, growth information, size-structure data and creel censuses of harvest, Rypel said.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2018
  • At 62, Robinson is a scuba instructor and the owner of ZooKeeper, which makes a sort of underwater creel for safely storing lionfish during dives and sponsors lionfish derbies across the state.
    — Rayna O’Nan, Outdoor Life, 5 July 2023
  • At 62, Robinson is a scuba instructor and the owner of ZooKeeper, which makes a sort of underwater creel for safely storing lionfish during dives and sponsors lionfish derbies across the state.
    — Rayna O'Nan, Outdoor Life, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Some of the bigger proposals included lengthening the spring turkey-hunting season, changing smallmouth-bass fishing regulations along the New River, expanding nighttime hunting for coyotes and imposing a creel limit on panfish.
    — USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2020

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