Tules

His entire body was covered in tules except for two small slits for him to see through. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The reeds, called tules, are ghostly pale in winter, in summer deep poisonous-looking green, the waters thick and brown; the reed beds breaking into dingy pools, clumps of rotting willows, narrow winding water lanes and sinking paths. ❋ Unknown (1903)

Happens every time sitting in the tules waiting for the ducks decide to take a piss and half way through I got 50 mallards at 25 yards. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And yet, when I laid eyes on those fishing arks lying in the water-front tules, without debate, on the instant, I put down my tiller, came in on the sheet, and headed for the shore. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Shipyard, rounded the Solano wharf, and surged along abreast of the patch of tules and the clustering fishermen's arks where in the old days I had lived and drunk deep. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In a cluster of fishermen's arks, moored in the tules on the water-front, dwelt a congenial crowd of drinkers and vagabonds, and I joined them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They passed many arks and houseboats of fishermen moored among the tules, and the women and children, like the men in the boats, were dark-skinned, black-eyed, foreign. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Not a hundred feet away, anchored close in the tules, lay a beautiful white yacht. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And when they returned next morning with reinforcements they found only the mooring-stakes of Big Alec's ark; the ark itself remained hidden for months in the fastnesses of the Suisun tules. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The tall, rustling tules grew out of the deep water close to the dilapidated boat-landing where they sat. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He told me to “grab a junebug Gitzit, Texas rig it, and flip it into the tules,” which was just gobbledygook! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sacramento, in a creek called Cache Slough, the tules was full of grizzliest He used to go in an 'shoot' em. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even as he drove out in the “tules” on foggy nights, ticketing speeders, more drunks, and writing citations for drivers without seat belts, Jerry Berry loved his job. ❋ Ann Rule (2010)

We have dozens of ways to refer to a remote place, for instance, including the boonies, the sticks, the tules, the puckerbrush, and the willywags. ❋ Unknown (2010)

From shore, cast out in open water beyond the new growth of reeds, tules, or rushes. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The extensive rivers and lakes of the Central Valley supported vast freshwater marshlands dominated by rushes, bulrushes (tules), sedges, cattails, willows, and floating plants. ❋ Unknown (2008)