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- adjective Without
fish .
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Examples
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In 1912, a young shepherd named Joe Jaunsaras wanted to fish the fishless upper creek, historical records show, so he carried some Paiute trout up in a can.
Flies, and Their Lawyers, Keep Rare Trout From Going Home Justin Scheck 2011
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Had one experience with eating them on a fishless (except bowfin) float trip.
Anyone ever eat Bowfin? Some people call them grendel or shoepic or choupic. 2009
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Above Silver King's upper waterfall, the creek was fishless, Mr. Somer says.
Flies, and Their Lawyers, Keep Rare Trout From Going Home Justin Scheck 2011
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Had one experience with eating them on a fishless (except bowfin) float trip.
Anyone ever eat Bowfin? Some people call them grendel or shoepic or choupic. 2009
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I go fishless all morning, as Cheney hits for the cycle: browns and rainbows, cutties and hybrids.
FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010
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Sterile and fishless, these pools dotted the landscape and formed traps for unwary travelers, who might easily stumble into one in darkness and be forced to spend a wet and uncomfortable night on the moor.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Ten minutes later, Jonah, still fishless, was facing the special humiliation of being the oldest kid and the only one to fail.
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Later Pleistocene glaciation left numerous naturally-fishless lakes.
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All I know is that while wetlands are bulldozed, forests are cut, and streams are made fishless - all in the name of "progress," - gun rights seem comparatively safe and sound.
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They were called “the fish of a thousand casts” and that was putting it mildly, since there were true stories of musky fishermen having fishless weeks, months and even whole seasons.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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