Separate the remnants of a baked bluefish into flakes, discarding skin and bones.
After dinner Rob had assigned Merritt and Tubby to form a "fishing squad," to range seaward in the Flying Fish and "halt and detain" all the bluefish they could apprehend.
Rob brought along bluefish squids and lines, and Tubby--never at a loss to scare up a hurried lunch--had a basket full of good things to eat.
In the Gulf of Mexico it often feeds in company with the salt-water trout, and in northern waters with the bluefish and weakfish.
The author of a recently published book on the fishes of Florida makes the following queer statement, "It seems to me the runners are hybrids from the crevalle and bluefish species or families, as they certainly resemble both of those fishes.
He allowed the subject to lapse and began telling her about the ledges on which the rock cod and tautog schooled; where bluefish might be caught on the line, and snappers in the channels going into the Haven.
Lawford had brought along rods; for to catch the young and gamey bluefish one must use an entirely different rigging from that used for tautog.
Ascetic, crucified, with a little smile clinging to the lips and deep-set eyes, he presided, above the bluefish flames of a log fire.
The great lighted hall, filled with the faint bluefish vapour from hundreds of little rolls of tobacco leaf, was crowded from floor to ceiling.
Shad and salmon have their season in the spring, bluefish come north in the summer, sometimes as late as August, porgies are a summer and autumn fish, and smelt are abundant in the winter.
If ever on a camping trip you have eaten bluefish caught in the surf, or trout from the brook, cooked immediately, you know what flavor a fish may have.
A bluefish weighing four pounds will take from twenty minutes to half an hour to cook.
There were some big bluefish in the catch, at the sight of which the eyes of the captain gleamed.
The bluefish must have been so frightened at the shark that they didn't dare run away.
The name has also sometimes been applied to the bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix), and to the silver gar.
The bluefish preys on other fishes, such as the menhaden and mackerel, the shoals of which it pursues.
Preble has the following to say in his report with reference to this fine fish:— “The Arctic grayling, usually called bluefish in the north, has a very extensive range.
A temporary post was built in the summer of 1805 at “Bluefish river,” about sixty miles below the mouth of Bear lake river.
Well, the bluefish swimming around strike this slick, and follow it up until they come near to the boat, where the fishermen have their lines out with pieces of bunker on the hooks, then the fun begins.
I have seen 'em catch bluefish that were longer than my rifle barrel.
We can scarcely conceive of a number so vast; and however much we may diminish, within reason, the estimate of the number of bluefish and the average of their capture, there still remains an appalling aggregate of destruction.
There is no parallel in point of destructiveness to the bluefish among the marine species on our coast, whatever may be the case among some of the carnivorous fish of the South American waters.
And as the period of the stay of the bluefish on the New England coast is at least one hundred and twenty days, we have in round numbers twelve hundred million millions of fish devoured in the course of a season.
The bluefish differs from the Carangidæ mainly in its larger scales, and in a slight serration of the bones of the head.
The stomachs of the bluefish of all sizes, with rare exceptions, are found loaded with the other fish, sometimes to the number of thirty or forty, either entire or in fragments.
To make the case more clear, let us realize for a moment the number of bluefishthat exist on our coast in the summer season.
It is among the small residuum of this class that the agency of the bluefish is exercised and whatever reasonable reduction may be made in our estimate, we cannot doubt that they exert a material influence.
An allowance of ten fish per day to each bluefish is not excessive, according to the testimony elicited from the fishermen and substantiated by the stomachs of those examined; this gives ten thousand millions of fish destroyed per day.
Those, however, who have seen the bluefish in his native waters and realized the immense numbers there existing will be quite willing to admit that probably not one fish in a thousand is ever taken by man.
The bluefish has been well likened to an animated chopping-machine the business of which is to cut to pieces and otherwise destroy as many fish as possible in a given space of time.
Just from the water, fat enough to broil in its own drippings, or slightly corned in strong brine, caught at night and eaten in the morning, a mackerel or a bluefish is unsurpassable.
The rate of growth of the bluefish is also an evidence of the immense amount of food they must consume.
While the smallest bluefish feed upon the diminutive fry, those of which we have taken account capture fish of large size, many of them, if not capable of reproduction, being within at least one or two years of that period.
My bayman develops fits bordering closely upon incurable hysteria if I lose a single bluefish in the play, but he worries not when he goes ashore with a sloopful of hand-liners and half a hundred fish he cannot make good use of.
I would rather take five fair fish on fine tackle correctly manipulated than fill the hold with a hundred horrid monsters mastered by mere strength, as in hand-line trolling for bluefish in the ocean and for muskellonge, etc.
We may not always have clams and bluefish just when we want them, and I'm not going to take any risks.
Not from the looks of that string we won't," laughed Fred, as he received from Lester enough bluefish to feed a dozen men.
Clam soup and fried bacon and broiled bluefish and hot coffee!
Bluefish are twice as good broiled as they are fried.
Bluefish was chosen for Amphitrite, the wife of the Ruler of the Waves, and, though he had an unladylike habit of hitching up his skirts whenever he wanted to use his jack-knife, it was thought that he would go off very creditably.
After the horse-racing came the bull and bear fight, in which old Bluefish and myself evinced an especial interest.
Old Bluefish called my attention to a great dust in our advance, which we soon perceived to be caused by four Mexican hunters in pursuit of a grizzly bear.
Bluefish also did well, but little Dicky Drake, as usual, made a laughing-stock of himself.
The son of old Sol Bluefish of Nantucket, the man as was hanged?
Behind us flowed our wake of fire; Tony Trybrace played several tunes on his scrapy violin; and then, as it bade fair to be a peaceful night, we gathered round old Bluefish for a promised yarn.
Bluefish contemptuously, as he danced in and fetched the shark a deep gash with his tomahawk, and this time the fountain of life began to flow in earnest.
Bluefish knocked the ashes out of his pipe, from which we judged that his yarn was brought to a close.
And with this conclusive argument, Bluefish "turned in.
Old Bluefish and myself had obtained permission for a day on shore to enjoy ourselves hunting, and having each of us procured an excellent mustang, set off at a brisk pace in the early morning.
I remember coming to slowly, and hearing old Bluefish murmuring in my ears, with as much of tenderness as could inform his rude voice: "Wake up!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bluefish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
