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
Early in the season, directly the ice breaks up, a little fish called the caplin, which is about the size of a smelt, runs inshore in great schools of countless millions, to spawn.
From The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell by Wallace, Dillon
The caplin last six weeks and disappear, to be superseded in August by the squid, of which the cod are very fond.
From The Harbor of Doubt by Gage, George W.
The trap is submerged a hundred yards or so from shore, at a point where the caplin, with the cod at their heels, are likely to run in.
From The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell by Wallace, Dillon
It was a novel sight to watch them in their play, or labor, rather; for they were feeding upon the caplin, pretty little fishes that swarm along these shores at this particular season.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 by Various
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