Did you grow up calling a fish a different name than most people?
#1 Guest_NorthEdge_*
Posted 15 October 2013 - 03:55 PM
#2 Guest_Gavinswildlife_*
Posted 15 October 2013 - 04:16 PM
#3 Guest_Skipjack_*
Posted 15 October 2013 - 04:27 PM
#4 Guest_Gavinswildlife_*
Posted 15 October 2013 - 04:33 PM
Hellgrammites are salamanders? That is a stretch. I have heard them called "grampus" in Tn. Green sunfish were rock bass around here, and longears were pumpkinseeds. Bullhead catfish were yellow bellies. Sure I could think of a few more.
Yeah, but this is backwoods WV in the 1940s were talking about.
Edited by Gavinswildlife, 15 October 2013 - 04:34 PM.
#5
Posted 15 October 2013 - 04:51 PM
"No thanks, a third of a gopher would merely arouse my appetite..."
#6 Guest_Orangespotted_*
Posted 15 October 2013 - 07:23 PM
#7 Guest_jblaylock_*
Posted 15 October 2013 - 09:17 PM
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#8 Guest_EricaLyons_*
Posted 15 October 2013 - 09:49 PM
Not sure why, my Dad called it that.
Every sunfish is a 'crappie' because .... it sucks compared to other fish. (sorry, not my phrase!)
#9 Guest_Irate Mormon_*
Posted 15 October 2013 - 10:33 PM
#10 Guest_Mike_*
Posted 15 October 2013 - 11:31 PM
#11
Posted 16 October 2013 - 05:19 AM
Pat McManus wrote a humorous essay on the differences between "creeks" and "cricks". If you aren't familiar with it, and want a chuckle, here's a link: (don't know anything more about the site than that they have this essay here...)The small flowing water in our back yard, short enough to jump across, is the crick.
Not sure why, my Dad called it that.
Every sunfish is a 'crappie' because .... it sucks compared to other fish. (sorry, not my phrase!)
http://www.finefishi...tofishcrick.htm
By McManus' definition, the flowing waters of my youth are overwhelmingly of crick status, and that is still how I refer to them.
"No thanks, a third of a gopher would merely arouse my appetite..."
#12 Guest_FirstChAoS_*
Posted 17 October 2013 - 01:56 AM
DACE: fallfish
PUMPKINSEED: any lepomis
CUSK: burbot (also a saltwater species)
HORNPOUT: bullhead
i heard one person call white perch whitefish but only heard it once so am not sure if it is a lakes region name (they were from their) or their mistake.
up here we do not have cricks and creeks, we have brooks and streams. I think streams are smaller if I remember right, but when it comes to place names both seem interchangable.
#13 Guest_velvetelvis_*
Posted 29 October 2013 - 11:22 AM
That's not even counting the colloquial names for saltwater fishes, some of which sound very politically incorrect now...!
#14 Guest_sbtgrfan_*
Posted 29 October 2013 - 01:15 PM
#15 Guest_Dustin_*
Posted 29 October 2013 - 02:48 PM
#16 Guest_Skipjack_*
Posted 29 October 2013 - 05:28 PM
#17 Guest_ShelleyD_*
Posted 02 November 2013 - 02:44 AM
#18 Guest_EBParks_*
Posted 05 November 2013 - 05:58 PM
chinkapin = red ear sunfish
goggle-eye = warmouth, rock bass, crappie
white perch = black and white crappie
sun perch = longear, dollar, & pumkinseed
bream = bluegill
perch = any sunfish
#19 Guest_Irate Mormon_*
Posted 05 November 2013 - 09:15 PM
#20 Guest_njJohn_*
Posted 07 November 2013 - 11:34 AM
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