Thus, being asleep in a nook behind the metal refuse-can, when the strange cat ventured to ascend the steps of the porch, his appearance was so unwarlike that the cat felt encouraged to extend its field of reconnaissance for the cook had been careless, and the backbone of a three-pound whitefish lay at the foot of the refuse-can.
"Penrod and Sam"
Booth Tarkington
At first they couldn't get any trout, or the whitefish-those fish with the 'long mouths' that Lewis tells about.
"The Young Alaskans on the Missouri"
Emerson Hough
"I don't think the Journal mentions them, but they saw whitefish, and the two often go together, though by no means always.
"The Young Alaskans on the Missouri"
Emerson Hough