The Twelve Days of Fishmas

The Twelve Days of Fishmas
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SELKIRK, UNITED KINGDOM - OCTOBER 31: Salmon attempt to leap up the fish ladder in the river Etterick on October 31, 2012 in Selkirk, Scotland. The salmon are returning upstream from the sea where they have spent between two and four winters feeding with many covering huge distances to return to the fresh waters to spawn. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
SELKIRK, UNITED KINGDOM - OCTOBER 31: Salmon attempt to leap up the fish ladder in the river Etterick on October 31, 2012 in Selkirk, Scotland. The salmon are returning upstream from the sea where they have spent between two and four winters feeding with many covering huge distances to return to the fresh waters to spawn. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

THE TWELVE DAYS OF FISHMAS

(An Angler's Carol)

For the Twelve Days of Fishmas my true love gave to me:
Twelve drumfish drumming,
Eleven stripers eeling,
Ten kings a leaping,
Nine oysters setting,
Eight trout a milting,
Seven shad migrating,
Six salmon spawning,

Five dor-a-do

Four arctic char,
Three tautog,
Two cuttlefish,

And a clam bed in the wind's lee

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