channel bass
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of channel bass
An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
Example Sentences
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Last week, around Cape Hatteras, No. 1 locale for channel bass, surfcasters were hopefully trying to beach one bigger than the world's record 74-pounder taken off Virginia in 1929.
From Time Magazine Archive
Into its tanks went sea creatures: sharks, channel bass, tropical lungfish, giant morays, sea turtles, penguins, alligators, crabs.
From Time Magazine Archive
A distant relative of the striped bass is the copper-colored channel bass, a surf fish whose sportiness is confined to acting like a Japanese tumbler.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through Ocracoke Inlet, where modern sportsmen go for coppery channel bass, in 1585 sailed Sir Walter Raleigh's English colonists, the first in North America.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was finally accomplished, and with considerable splashing a magnificent bronze-backed channel bass, weighing at least twenty pounds, was captured.
From The Outdoor Chums on the Gulf by Allen, Quincy
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