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If stumps, brush, and other shallow wood exists in any of the above areas, bounce a 3/8-ounce cedar Stanford C-Flat Special in blue-back shad over it.
Field & Stream's Guide to the Best Crankbaits for Spring Bass 2005
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Stripers turn on in the cold, feeding on schools of shad and blue-back herring.
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I know my grandma did because they just had those blue-back spellers.
Oral History Interview with Gladys Florene Harris, 1979 August. Interview H-124. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Gladys Florene Harris Gladys Florene Harris 1979
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In the Frazer's River the blue-back is largely canned, and its flesh being a little more watery and perhaps paler, is graded below the quinnat.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various
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The blue-back and the dog salmon probably seek deeper water, as the former is seldom or never taken with the seine in the ocean, and the latter is known to enter the Straits of Fuca at the spawning season.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various
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They would have them blue-back spellers and McGuffy's reader.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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They made me study books, generally a blue-back spelling book as punishment for mean things I done.
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These species may be called the quinnat or king salmon, the blue-back salmon or red-fish, the silver salmon, the dog salmon, and the hump-back salmon, or _Oncorhynchus chouicha, nerka, kisutch, keta_, and _gorbuscha_.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various
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The great majority of the quinnat salmon and nearly all blue-back salmon enter the rivers in the spring.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various
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All the species have been seen by us in the Columbia and in Frazer's River; all but the blue-back in the Sacramento, and all but the blue-back in waters tributary to Puget Sound.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various
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