weakfish

[ week-fish ]

/ ˈwikˌfɪʃ /

any food fish of the genus Cynoscion, as C. regalis, inhabiting waters along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the U.S.

Origin of weakfish

1790–1800, Americanism; < Dutch weekvis (obsolete), equivalent to week soft, weak + vis fish

In the Gulf of Mexico it often feeds in company with the salt-water trout, and in northern waters with the bluefish and weakfish.

Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others |James Alexander Henshall
The fishermen were beginning to haul in weakfish and an occasional tautog, or blackfish.

The Campfire Girls on Station Island |Margaret Penrose
The weakfish were not hungry or we did not tempt them with bait to their taste that day.

The Rise of Roscoe Paine |Joseph C. Lincoln
When we reach the coast we find the weakfish has also been transformed into a trout.

Days in the Open |Lathan A. Crandall

Although it seems to consort a good deal with the weakfish, its habits of feeding are quite different from that fish.

Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others |James Alexander Henshall

weakfish

/ (ˈwiːkˌfɪʃ) /

any of several sciaenid sea trouts, esp Cynoscion regalis, a food and game fish of American Atlantic coastal waters