ciscoes

“It seems like that would be a good spot for ciscoes to spawn, and it's right on the way to the muskies wintering location in clam lake.”

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“For example, increasing the number of cyprinids that consume plankton (e.g., emerald shiner – Notropis atherinoides, lake chub – Couesius plumbeus) in northern waters will possibly divert energy from existing planktivores (e.g., ciscoes) and reduce their population abundances.”

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“North American salmon, trout, char, graylings, white fishes, and ciscoes of the family Salmonidae are grouped by genera and appear in the order as described in the text.”

Simon & Schuster: Trout and Salmon of North America

“The family Salmonidae includes trout, salmon, char, whitefishes, ciscoes, inconnu, and graylings in North America and several more genera from Europe and Asia.”

Simon & Schuster: Trout and Salmon of North America

“Chinook, on the other hand, feast on insects and sideswimmers when young, then consume a variety of fish, especially smelt and ciscoes, a type of lake herring, as they mature.”

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“In LePere’s youth, the fish house had been where his father cleaned the day’s catch—ciscoes, herring, whitefish—he sold to the markets and smokehouses along the North Shore between Grand Marais and Two Harbors.”

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