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Looks like a lot of the little fish I call perch aren't really in the perch family but belong to the sunfish family. Some call crappie "white perch", but looks like they are not perch at all. Not that any of this really matters, but I was surprised reading some WL&F info on the fish in a lake I had been too.
When I grew up in Mississippi, there were 5 catagories.....white perch (crappie), bream (which included blue gill, chinkapin, goggle eye), catfish and bass...all others (like gar, choupique, eel, buffalo, etc) fell into "rough fish"....I think most folks call anything in the bream catagory, perch....but they are like you say, in the sunfish family...it's all in how and where you are raised.....but like you say, what difference does it make....
They're all sac-a-lait to me.
To me, 'perch' was always reference to crappie. Bream were all other pan fish that we'd catch with worms/crickets, but I'd never heard them called sunfish until I was much older, but had heard bluegill used (though by then, they were pretty solidified as "bream"). Agreed with the others PS listed as well.
Anything that is not a Rough Fish taste good --- Some Rough fish, the longer you chew the bigger it gets :fish
Crappie in the state of La go by several different names. I've heard Sac a Lait, White Perch, Specs, and Paper Mouths. They all eat about the same too.
I grew up calling chinkapin shell crackers and red ears. Just saying.
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[QUOTE=lvoorhies;3649219]I grew up calling chinkapin shell crackers and red ears. Just saying.
or Lake Runners
I have always used P. Shiners Terminology