bluebacks

Anglers in recent years have been coming from throughout the Pacific Northwest for a chance at catching these high-quality fish, which old-timers called bluebacks for the color of their skin.

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As for river herring, listing the unheralded fish along with the likes of grizzly bears, American crocodiles, Chinook salmon and other threatened iconic species means that not only would alewives and bluebacks get a little boost in the public eye, but they'd finally get a recovery plan in place.

Peter Hanlon: Little Fish, Big Help Peter Hanlon 2011

So, I'd make it a point to find a local Bureaux de Change or Cambio (when you travel, you learn to look for those words real quick, along with the initials WC [different service there]) to turn my greenbacks into redbacks, bluebacks, orangebacks, and several other equally colorful backs of local value.

Pizza Patr�n's Peculiar Pecuniary Peso-Paying Predicament 2007

In the nineteenth century the Rangeley Lakes char was abundant and sustained commercial and subsistence fisheries, but the bluebacks of all of the Rangeley Lakes became extinct in the early 1900s after Atlantic salmon and smelt were introduced.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

In the nineteenth century the Rangeley Lakes char was abundant and sustained commercial and subsistence fisheries, but the bluebacks of all of the Rangeley Lakes became extinct in the early 1900s after Atlantic salmon and smelt were introduced.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

In the nineteenth century the Rangeley Lakes char was abundant and sustained commercial and subsistence fisheries, but the bluebacks of all of the Rangeley Lakes became extinct in the early 1900s after Atlantic salmon and smelt were introduced.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

In the nineteenth century the Rangeley Lakes char was abundant and sustained commercial and subsistence fisheries, but the bluebacks of all of the Rangeley Lakes became extinct in the early 1900s after Atlantic salmon and smelt were introduced.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

It would have been easier, I think, with Englishmen, for Yankee bluebacks are deuced serious fellows, more concerned with their d---- d ratlines and bobstays than with interesting topics like drink, women and cash.

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

It would have been easier, I think, with Englishmen, for Yankee bluebacks are deuced serious fellows, more concerned with their d---- d ratlines and bobstays than with interesting topics like drink, women and cash.

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

With every preparation long since made for the event -- with cellars and attics stored with tobacco and other merchandise -- with Confederate blood-money converted into gold -- these Shylocks now shivered in anticipation of the coming greenbacks, for abject dread of the bluebacks that were to bring them.

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon