Miscatch

Quick meaning: Miscatch is a noun meaning (fishing) A catch in which the wrong type of fish is caught, and so must be released.

Meaning

(fishing) A catch in which the wrong type of fish is caught, and so must be released.

More Meanings

1. The act of catching in which the thing that is caught is then dropped; a fumble.
2. An act of catching in which something is caught wrongly, such as in the wrong position.
3. A misperception or misidentification.
4. To make a miscatch (any sense).
5. To stutter or break the flow of words when speaking.

Example Sentences

They caught him after a couple of miscatches and falls in the grass and dirt.

We regret the slip, but then we take consolation in the fact that the best of jugglers sometimes make a miscatch.

Investigating types and number of fishing gears; catch per unit of effort by different fishing gears; miscatch amount and bycatch ratio of fish banned.

On dealing with a shot which is coming rather higher he should stand square to the kicker with his body well behind his hands, in the event of a miscatch or fumble.

Word Forms

• miscatches
• miscatching
• miscaught

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include miscast, misfetch, mischoice, miscuing, miscueing, mismating.

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