How to Use croaker in a Sentence

croaker

noun
  • But one of the croakers didn’t look like the others.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2025
  • There is John Dory fish from the south to be served along with croaker from the north.
    — Gavin Blair, latimes.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • But speckled trout, founder, croaker, drum and other marine fish have been found in the traps.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 10 Feb. 2018
  • No more boat rides on Chesapeake Bay to fish for rockfish or croaker.
    — Brian Hamilton, SI.com, 13 Sep. 2016
  • One of the masters of using croakers to entice a trout bite, Capt.
    — Ralph Winingham, San Antonio Express-News, 28 June 2018
  • Many pompano and croaker anglers prefer to let their baits roll around the bottom with the waves.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 26 Oct. 2023
  • For giant ahi, troll live mullet, menhaden, croakers, blue runners, or white trout.
    — David A. Brown, Field & Stream, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Large redfish are also running along this bar, and can be caught on live croaker or other baitfish.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 27 Aug. 2021
  • The new species belongs to a group of fish known as Sciaenidae, commonly called drums or croakers.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The other key differences between the new species and other croakers lie within the body.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Among those in need of protection is the sea cucumber, hairtail and yellow croaker.
    — Bloomberg.com, 6 June 2017
  • Best bait is a live croaker, but plenty are caught on 8 to 12 inch soft plastic swimbaits on wide-gap hooks, as well.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Doing so, officials hope, will restore the land to again suit the smaller, native croaker.
    — Sam Lounsberry, The Denver Post, 3 July 2019
  • Off the coast of India, a trawling net pulled behind a boat captured a collection of croaker fish.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Live croakers or mullet are a sure thing but big jigs and swimbaits also do the job for these fish, which average 20 pounds and up.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Thirteen 28-minute episodes follow a young croaker named Darel who goes to war against frog-eating scorpions.
    — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2016
  • Smaller reds should also be more active on oyster bars and creek mouths—live shrimp is best for the keeper-size fish, while croakers and other baitfish get the big ones.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 4 Oct. 2019
  • The catch has normally included mackerel, bass, halibut, croaker and rock fish.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Lassiter usually spends her summer break fishing for spot, croaker and perch near the Eastern Shore.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 19 June 2017
  • Rockport — Guide Rhett Price reported a good bite for trout on croakers on the outside beaches.
    — Bink Grimes, Houston Chronicle, 9 June 2018
  • Those fish included sea trout, red drum (redfish), red snapper, Southern flounder, black drum, catfish and croaker.
    — Greg Morago, Houston Chronicle, 17 Apr. 2018
  • But as the sun set along the causeway Thursday, more people were fishing for sand perch and croaker than had shown up to the support the former president.
    — Josh Dawsey, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023
  • It was named Johnius medidentatus, or the moderate-toothed croaker, researchers said.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The East China Sea, where mackerel and croaker abound, is China's largest fishing ground.
    — Amanda Erickson, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2018
  • On Fridays and Saturdays, the community smelled of croaker and perch frying.
    — charlotteobserver, 23 Feb. 2013
  • The yellow croaker fish maw in the soup chef Eddy Leung had prepared for us on Tuesday tasted similar.
    — Time, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Reds will remain active on the bars and off the beaches—live croakers or other baitfish lure the big ones, while the keeper-size fish are readily caught on shrimp, quarter-ounce jigs or gold spoons.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 26 July 2019
  • When the croakers or catfish are problematic at a particular section of the bridge, Falterman will make a big move to a different stretch.
    — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 6 June 2017
  • In the 1930s, Chinese fishermen started landing huge catches of a giant croaker fish called the bahaba.
    — Adam Elder, Wired, 16 Apr. 2020
  • After a crane drops the fish onto the deck, workers pick out the larger species, including juvenile giant catfish and freshwater croaker, before shoveling the silvery trey riel into a barrel.
    — National Geographic, 29 Mar. 2017

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