The cunner, called the perch in Boston Harbour, is taken in spring and summer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference

In addition to crabs, watermen found croaker and oyster toadfish, as well as rarities, such as stargazer and cunner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shad Plank] Reference

To sit for hours blinking in the sun, waiting for a cunner to come along and take his hook, was as exhaustive a kind of labor as he cared to engage in.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Rivermouth Romance] Reference

I have watched the bird plunge into the waves of the ocean, on the coast of Maine, to bring out a cunner almost too large for her to carry, and I have seen her drop into the placid waters of an Adirondack lake for lake-trout in the same manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls] Reference

My hostess and I had made our shrewd business agreement on the basis of a simple cold luncheon at noon, and liberal restitution in the matter of hot suppers, to provide for which the lodger might sometimes be seen hurrying down the road, late in the day, with cunner line in hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Todd] Reference

Than kill a duck, or even hook a cunner. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman Who Dared] Reference