How to Use snook in a Sentence

snook

noun
  • All that’s left of the snook is a bloody stump.
    — Bill Kearney, Miami Herald, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The fun begins when a snook grabs the bait.
    — Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Your personal-best snook can run under a dock and break you off.
    — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 19 June 2025
  • His initial snook and wildlife rescue content didn’t catch fire.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Lots of gamesters, snook, tarpon, largemouth bass and redfish.
    — Jim Gronaw, Baltimore Sun, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Texas has little data on snook, and Davis’ efforts are aiming to change that.
    — Matt Wyatt, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Most catches of them occur along the beaches and anglers fishing for snook or pompano.
    — Jon Chapman, Miami Herald, 28 Jan. 2025
  • The snook is butterflied and grilled with butter and soy sauce, handsomely splayed out on a large platter.
    — Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The fish can be prepared several ways, but the overwhelming favorite method is to dredge chunks of snook in bread crumbs and fry them.
    — Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The book has chapters on sharks, tunas, dolphin, sailfish, kingfish, grouper, tarpon and snook.
    — Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • If a snook doesn’t hit on the initial fall, Nichols retrieves the shrimp with a series of light twitches of his fishing rod.
    — Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2026
  • On a chilly January day, Cruz made his normal stop, hoping to run into a snook or trout.
    — Jon Chapman, Miami Herald, 28 Jan. 2025
  • His clients usually catch swordfish, sailfish, snapper, snook, mahi, and kingfish.
    — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Both casual and seasoned snorkelers can observe snook, snapper, sheepshead, nurse sharks, red sponges, and more marine life.
    — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2024
  • Snook are concentrated in warmer, inshore waters at this time of year, although all local piers have some snook lurking.
    — Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Anglers are allowed to keep one snook per day measuring 28-32 inches in length.
    — Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The inshore waters from Miami to Jupiter have good snook fishing but very few redfish.
    — Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Get Up and Go Kayaking takes you through the mangroves to see snook and sheep fish, and diverse species of birds nestling in the trees.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 12 May 2022
  • Mahi, tuna, grouper and sailfish were a few of the offshore targets, while snook, sea trout and large mangrove snappers were some of the inshore species being caught.
    — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The inside waters, where the islands protect you from the wind, are holding some snappers, ladyfish, sea trout, jacks and a few snook and redfish.
    — Alan Sherman, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Lobsters, grouper, snapper, snook and myriad other marine animals use the reef as habitat.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 3 July 2025
  • Stick around to see the daily animal feeding of sharks, grouper, snook, tarpon, eels, and more in the community’s saltwater pool.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 27 Aug. 2025
  • That’s been a huge benefit to species that feed on mullet such as snook, redfish and tarpon, as well as species such as Spanish mackerel that were commercially netted.
    — Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Subtropical fish like snook and gray snapper, species that are less tolerant to cold water temperatures, suffered heavy casualties.
    — Matt Watt, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The signature pescado zarandeado—a whole snook marinated, butterflied, and grilled to perfection—is tucked into warm corn tortillas along with tangy red onions and salsa verde.
    — Cathy Chaplin, AFAR Media, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Bigger fish — jacks, snook — were swimming in spirals or upside down in the shallow waters of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.
    — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Given the lack of mangroves, snook in South Florida make do with boat docks, which provide protection from predators as well as sites from which to ambush smaller fish and crustaceans.
    — Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2026
  • In the past decade, however, researchers have found those juvenile snook and tarpon in marshes where there are no mangroves, including spots as far north as South Carolina.
    — Michael Adno, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
  • Gray snapper and snook are extremely intolerant to low water temperatures and will be probable casualties in the coming days.
    — Matt Wyatt, San Antonio Express-News, 18 Feb. 2021
  • On the north side of the inlet, the jetty pier stretches 1,000 feet into the ocean, luring those with fishing poles in tow to cast a line for snook, redfish, black drum, king mackerel, and more.
    — Terry Ward, Outside Online, 19 Jan. 2025

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