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Yellow perch   /jˈɛloʊ pərtʃ/   Listen
Yellow perch

noun
1.
North American perch.  Synonym: Perca flavescens.






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"Yellow perch" Quotes from Famous Books



... land-locked salmon. The mascalonge, as a game fish, is scarcely behind the small-mouthed bass and is certainly more gamy than the lake trout. The large-mouthed bass and pickerel are usually ranked about with the yellow perch, I don't know why: they are certainly gamy enough. Perhaps it is because they do not leap out of water when hooked. Both are ...
— Woodcraft • George W. Sears

... with the sedge; so many sunny hours in an old man's life, entrapping silly fish; almost grown to be the sun's familiar; what need had he of hat or raiment any, having served out his time, and seen through such thin disguises? I have seen how his coeval fates rewarded him with the yellow perch, and yet I thought his luck was not in proportion to his years; and I have seen when, with slow steps and weighed down with aged thoughts, he disappeared with his fish under his low-roofed house on the skirts of the village. I think nobody else saw him; nobody else remembers ...
— A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers • Henry David Thoreau



Words linked to "Yellow perch" :   perch, genus Perca, Perca flavescens, Perca



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