caplin
Americannoun
noun
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Ltd. has a tour that takes in coves where, in summer, shoals of the glistening caplin strike, and where dorymen with multi-hooked jiggers catch squid for bait for the Grand Banks fishing fleet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every day and night the tide ebbed and flowed, and every tide left its contribution in windrows of dead herring and caplin, with scattered crabs and mussels for a relish, like plums in a pudding.
From Northern Trails, Book I. by William Joseph Long
The caplin is a small fish, about the size of a smelt or a little larger, and is caught in the neighborhood of Hamilton Inlet and south.
From The Long Labrador Trail by Dillon Wallace
The water was alive with schools of caplin.
From The Lure of the Labrador Wild by Dillon Wallace
Our folk were waiting for the bait-skiff, which had long been gone for caplin, skippered, this time, by the fool of Twist Tickle.
From The Cruise of the Shining Light by Norman Duncan
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