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Last year, eight Muches appeared on the state’s “successful spearer list.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

They are hardly known to the mere angler, however, not often biting at his baits, though the spearer carries home many a mess in the spring.

From A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Thoreau, Henry David