In New Jersey, what most of the world calls silversides or smelt, we call spearing.    From Wordnik.com.  [How do you know if fish are enjoying themselves?] Reference

I'd open my eyes underwater, watch the silversides skimming my cheek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference

The top photo is from NOAA collection; the silversides drawing is by H.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

The most abundant fish in the salt marsh channels are mummichogs and silversides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Rhode Island] Reference

Smaller versions are great forimitating sand eels, peanut bunker, and silversides.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Catch Fall Stripers: It's Not Easy, but It's Worth It] Reference

Keep a box of flies with you in various sizes to imitate little sandeels, bay anchovies, peanut bunker, and silversides.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Catch Fall Stripers: It's Not Easy, but It's Worth It] Reference

Towns were raised, and fishermen set forth in small boats to net the silversides that gathered in substantial numbers in the shallows.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Triumph of Souls]

One of them is when she says I'd open my eyes underwater, (the predictable part) watch the silversides skimming my cheek (the surprise).    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting Started with Poetry] Reference

Now, occasionally, I have actually seen our bigger whale sharks while they're feeding eat nothing but krill and little silversides in the diet we give them.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2006] Reference

Some of the common resident species in the creeks throughout the year include smaller fish like mummichogs, killifish, sheepshead minnows, blennies, gobies, and silversides.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina] Reference

I even admit to thinking that some fish are just playing after on many different occasions watching Atlantic silversides Menidia menidia jumping over floating twigs over and over again.    From Wordnik.com.  [How do you know if fish are enjoying themselves?] Reference

As in other island hotspots, there are two distinct groups of freshwater fishes in the Caribbean: on smaller and younger islands, most fish are species that are widespread in marine waters but also enter freshwater to some degree, while on the larger and older islands of the Greater Antilles, there are several groups that occupy inland waters, including gars, killifishes, silversides and cichlids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biological diversity in the Caribbean Islands] Reference

The little silversides and minnows have opened their spring regattas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903,] Reference

If the silversides maintain their current pace, Conover calculates, they will need 12 years to return to their former size.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference

Twelve generations, even assuming another species matched the silversides 'speed for recovery, could take 84 years to recover size.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference

Keeper Celine Pardo feeds the penguins twice daily a diet of capelin, smelt and silversides - penguin Twinkies, she says, feeding each penguin according to its preference.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

Grunion (the genus Leuresthes) belong to the Atherinopsidae family of neotropical silversides, which are mostly small, silver-colored fish that live in marine and freshwaters of the Americas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Santa Barbara Independent stories] Reference

As early as Thursday, scattered reports of dead or cold-stunned marine life - green sea turtles, speckled trout, hardhead catfish, gray snapper, striped mullet, snook, menhaden, silversides - came from bays along the length of the Texas coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [chron.com Chronicle] Reference

A string of perch and silversides, were now dry, rocky holes in the ground, and the branch in general was dry as a bone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865] Reference

To address the question with experiments instead of models, Conover and his colleagues caught hundreds of silversides (.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference

Forty-four species of fish have been collected from the waters of this site, including spot, mullet, summer flounder, pompano, menhaden, bluefish, striped killfish, mummichog, pinfish, silversides and sheepshead minnow.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve] Reference

Species include gulf menhaden, scaled sardine, cowfish, filefish, moharra, penfish, ladyfish, catfish, mullet, pompano, tarpon, spadefish, triggerfish, tripletail, ocellated moray, mangrove snapper, silversides, grunt, and snook.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgianne Nienaber: Sanibel Island: Frigid Florida Waters Decimating Fish and Turtles] Reference

Some of the animals, such as flounder, eels, and striped bass are temporary residents, while fishes such as sticklebacks, silversides, and mummichogs, as well as mud snails, fiddler crabs, ribbed mussels, and oysters may spend their entire lives there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference