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Shad or skip-jack is excellent (best) but store bought stuff won't stay on hook well, you need to use a throw net and get fresh stuff and use immediately.
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Shad or skip-jack is excellent (best) but store bought stuff won't stay on hook well, you need to use a throw net and get fresh stuff and use immediately.
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The most remarkable preserved fish is katsuobushi, a cornerstone of Japanese cooking, which dates from around 1700 and is made most often from one fish, the skip-jack tuna Katsuwonus pelamis.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The most remarkable preserved fish is katsuobushi, a cornerstone of Japanese cooking, which dates from around 1700 and is made most often from one fish, the skip-jack tuna Katsuwonus pelamis.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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With that skip-jack Dave Dyer, the druggist, she conducted a long mock-quarrel.
Main Street 2004
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With that skip-jack Dave Dyer, the druggist, she conducted a long mock-quarrel.
Main Street 1920
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In the books it is called a click-beetle, but it is also called a skip-jack because of the somersaults it can turn.
Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies Julia Moody 1919
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With that skip-jack Dave Dyer, the druggist, she conducted a long mock-quarrel.
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918
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When he sees a great flock of them fluttering over the water, he suspects that the objects of his pursuit are there, feeding from below on the squid, the shiners, or the skip-jack, on which the gulls are feeding from above.
Days Off And Other Digressions Henry Van Dyke 1892
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"Good morning, daughter!" quoth Adam, coming in from his early inspection; "whither away with such skip-jack grace, habited in yellow and black like a wasp?"
Patsy 1887
hernesheir commented on the word skip-jack
(n): a jumping spring from, or skip over, the water, especially, a species of silversides abundant in the Great Lakes of the USA.
Refers to a jumping toy of times gone by.
January 7, 2009