13 Metaphors for fishings

Fishing is a kind of hunting by water, be it with nets, weels, baits, angling, or otherwise, and yields all out as much pleasure to some men as dogs or hawks; "When they draw their fish upon the bank," saith Nic.

We found it so discolored and so turbulent that fishing was not a success.

ESTHONIA (393), one of the Russian Baltic provinces, has a northern foreshore on the Gulf of Finland, and on the W. abuts on the Baltic; what of the country that is free from forest and marsh is chiefly agricultural, but fishing is also an important industry; the people are a composite of Finns and immigrant Germans, with latterly Russians superimposed.

His fishing was all a blind.

Fishing and hunting, considered in the abstract, are things I care but little about.

Such fishing we had never imagined!there were so many fishes, and they were so big.

Fishing was a favorite vocation with them, and some of then established themselves as small merchants of sea foods.

" Fishing was another pastime.

FOULA, a high and rocky islet among the Shetlands, 32 m. W. of Lerwick; its sandstone cliffs on the NW. are 1220 ft. in height, and rise sheer from the water; it is sparsely peopled; fishing is the almost sole pursuit.

"Fishing is the chief employment of the inhabitants.

On the whole, the hand fishing is uninteresting, but it serves to wile away an odd hour when hunting and shooting are hardly practicable.

Cray-fishing is a very popular amusement among the villagers.

Fishing and sable-hunting, therefore, are the serious occupations of the Kamchadals throughout the year; but as these are indications of the nature of the country rather than of the characteristics of its inhabitants, they give only an imperfect idea of the distinctive peculiarities of Kamchadals and Kamchadal life.

13 Metaphors for  fishings