Blueback

As the sun starts getting low use the blueback/light belly - throw toward shore, rocks. and cover -- at dusk use silver or crome --- darkness use BLACK throw to the same spots - also pick coves or flats where the water is shallow. ❋ Unknown (2009)

None of these small fish species -- menhaden, alewives and blueback herring -- have the widespread appeal of your average humpback whale or giant panda, but they do happen to sit near the bottom of the food chain. ❋ Peter Hanlon (2011)

And put his clothes on in the blueback cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The NRDC is spearheading an effort to get river herring (shorthand here for blueback herring and alewife) listed as "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act, while the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) showed overwhelming support for new efforts to protect and rebuild the decimated menhaden stock. ❋ Peter Hanlon (2011)

It is the last remaining barrier on the mainstem of the Winnicut River and its removal effort, which also includes the installation of a fish passage structure upstream, will open more than 39 miles of upstream habitat for migratory fish such as alewives, blueback herring, and American eel. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the Connecticut River watershed, the alewife floater (Anodonta implicata) relies on anadromous fishes, American shad (Alosa sapidissima), alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus), and blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis), as hosts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fauna: Stockport Flats provides spawning and/or nursery ground for anadromous and freshwater fish species including alewife, blueback herring, American shad, rainbow smelt, striped bass and smallmouth bass. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Offshore shallows are used for spawning and/or nursery for anadromous and resident freshwater fishes, including alewife, blueback herring, white perch and striped bass. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Not to encourage bucket biology, but illegally introduced spotted bass and blueback herring, along with a minimum-size limit passed in 1999, have added tons of 2-pound-plus spots to this well-known largemouth lake. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Major anadromous fish include striped bass, alewife, and blueback herring which spawn in tributaries. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Prosek loved fishing, and a warden who befriended him taught him much about the outdoors, but Prosek didn't realize that trout would be central to his future until his father showed him an article in Yankee magazine about the blueback trout of Maine. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Speckled trout (stream-resident form); harvest trout, salter, blueback trout (sea-run form); silver trout (population in Crescent Lake, Washington) ❋ Robert J. Behnke (2002)

A few natural populations of blueback trout remain in Maine, and several introductions have been made to ensure their continued existence. ❋ Robert J. Behnke (2002)

These color varia tions have given rise to such local common names as golden, silver, blueback, and red trout. ❋ Robert J. Behnke (2002)

The blueback form of oquassa in the Rangeley Lakes of Maine rarely reached more than 10 inches 25 cm in length. ❋ Robert J. Behnke (2002)