Synonyms
go fish,
angle,
drop in a line,
rifle,
rummage,
bait,
bait the hook,
bob,
cast,
cast one’s hook,
cast one’s net,
chum,
extract,
extricate,
findEtymology
[ 'fish ] (noun.) before 12th century. From Old English fisc, from Proto-Germanic *fiskaz (compare West Frisian/Swedish fisk, Dutch vis, German Fisch), from Proto-Indo-European *pik̑sk̑os (compare Irish iasc, Latin piscis, Russian пискарь (piskárĭ) 'groundling', Sanskrti picchā 'calf (leg)', picchila, picchala 'slimy, slippery').