If you fish something out from somewhere, you take or pull it out, often after searching for it for some time. She fished out a pair of David's socks for her cold feet
deplete the supply of fish; remove an object from the water; remove a somewhat hidden object
1. Because Ed could not swim, he felt like a fish out of water at the beach.
3. She was the only girl at the party not in a formal dress and she felt like a fish out of water.