whitefish

whitefish (third-person singular simple present whitefishes, present participle whitefishing, simple past and past participle whitefished)

To fish for whitefish.
- 1894, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, “The Windigo”, in The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, page 169:
  “Perhaps he went whitefishing after he had his supper.”
- 1932 March 6, “Fishing Through Ice Is Thrill”, in The Spokesman-Review, 49th year, number 297, Spokane, Wash., part four, page 1:
  “Bill” is said to have whitefished on the lake since Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox first plowed it out.
- 1986, James Lee Burke, The Lost Get-Back Boogie, Baton Rouge, La., London: Louisiana State University Press, →ISBN, page 213:
  Beth and I whitefished in the broken ice along the banks of the Clark, a fire of driftwood roaring in the wind with the coffeepot set among the coals.