blueback salmon

West Coast

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a three-year-old coho.

See: coho

Quotations

1907

They are . . . the silver and blue-back salmon. . . .

1938

Jack hung around listening to talk of wobblers . . . the best places for bluebacks . . . and a thousand other ramifications of fishing lore.

1963

In these dog days of June salmon slugging, anyone who has two bluebacks to rub together after a trip is doing well.