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
The water was alive with schools of caplin.
From The Lure of the Labrador Wild by Dillon Wallace
They brought with them seal skins, stags’ skins, white hares, seal fish, salmon peel, small cod, dry caplin, with other fish and birds such as the country did yield.
From Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage by Henry Morley
In July they could find no caplin for bait for the cod-fishing, and in August and September they could find no cod.
From The Ruling Passion; tales of nature and human nature by Henry Van Dyke
The caplin last six weeks and disappear, to be superseded in August by the squid, of which the cod are very fond.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 George W. Gage
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