OK, lets play, what all names do they call crappie and where........
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OK, lets play, what all names do they call crappie and where........
A lot of people in Alabama call them paper mouths or white perch. I however call them delicious [emoji16]
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White Crappie.... White bass, silver crappie, and papermouth
Black Crappie....Calico bass , speckled perch, and tinmouth
And of course both are referred to as.....Sacalait in Louisiana
Expensive
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Sammich
Strawberry Bass
Croppie to a southern boy.......:Rofl
Same here. Never could understand why anybody would want to eat a crappy fish. :Rofl
On my home lake here in NW Pennsylvania, my friends call a nine inch black crappie a Chauncy. Mainly because they’re like me. Short, fat, and black.
Bachelor Perch (4 names from the Louisiana area)
Speckled Perch
White Perch
Sac-a-lait
Strawberry Bass (not sure from what region)
Calico Bass (North Atlantic Coastal states)
Newlights (my Grandpa 1950's)
Usually call them crappie but sometimes depends on how I did that day. Might use some explicit words to describe them then!
Where I am from:
They are generally: crappie
And, if you want to be more specific there are: white crappie and black crappie
ClearCreek
Nobody, and I mean nobody... EVER calls them Crappie down here in South Louisiana, it's only Sacalait.Some of them probably don't even know what Crappie is...LolQuote:
Originally Posted by Slab
frustrating is a term used here in Texas among those with the proper language skills
My grandpa who wintered in FL near Ft Pierce called em specks, man what memories I have of him bringing home coolers of frozen fish in the spring when the returned to KY. I call them Slabs and my wife calls them Crappie. I also call them delicious!
What He Said! Personally I had to become a convert growing up on the West Bank they were Sac-a-lait (Bags of Milk) but the national postings on the internet forced me to convert to Crappie. If you search for Sac's 5% of the articles that are out there show up. Maybe Google needs to add a bit of code so their engine knows Sac-a-lait is a synonym for the infamous, one and only "Crappie".Quote:
Nobody, and I mean nobody... EVER calls them Crappie down here in South Louisiana, it's only Sacalait.Some of them probably don't even know what Crappie is...Lol
It was always speckled perch, paper mouths, or specks. But I agree with many here, call’em what you want just don’t call us late for supper.
Yeah, and nobody here calls Red Ear Sunfish "Shellcrackers" they call them "Lakerunners" or "chinkapin".Quote:
Originally Posted by rojoguio
Here in the Mid-West, When not catching any ..... well this is a family site so I can't say what I call them! %$#@&+%#&$@#$
In my house they are called "Yummies" because as Wally Marshall says "Them Tater Chips" are so good in your belly!"Quote:
Originally Posted by chaunc
Mike
I was raised in MS, calling them white perch, now most folks call them Crappie.
Kansas, crappie, slabs, dinks.
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Croppie in Indiana, Crappie here is SC!
I call them ghosts cuz I don't see them very often
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Here in Michigan called specks or speckled bass when I was much younger.
Crappie or Calico bass here in CT.
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Here I South Ga they are Speckled perch or just Specks. Lots of folks have no idea what a crappie is down here.
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Hubcaps
Car tags
Dinner plates
X2 expensive
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I call em “Buddy” cuz they’re the friends I spend the most time with. Never knew about them before I was 15 and we moved to FL, and here they’re called specks. I was told that was short for speckled perch. I refer to them as croppie.
I’m a croppie fisherman! But lots my buddies call em crappy!
I haven’t heard Calico in a long time but I remember growing up way back in the day in NJ that was a popular name.Quote:
Originally Posted by CTPanfisher
Bob
"Crappie", because I made it past 2nd grade, where I learned how to pronounce words based on how they're spelled, and the use of the vowels and nouns. Never understood how you get "crop-pee" out of "crappie(crap-pee)".
I do find my self saying sac a laits a lot, and I've only passed through LA a couple times in my life. It's just a fun word.
It's not that simple. :biggrin I've heard it both ways and use it both ways. In SC, Ala, & Tenn I've heard it pronounced "Crap E", but growing up in KY I always heard it pronounced "Crop E". It's kinda like the "po tA tow" vs "po tah tow" regional dialect deal, and then there's those of us that simply say "tater". :fingerdanceQuote:
Originally Posted by TreednNC
But if you go back to the roots of the word, you find this :
The word crappie derives from the French-Canadian word crapet, a term used to describe various fish from the sunfish family of which crappie belongs to. Crapet is pronounced krah pay in French Canadian, yet in English that can be pronounced either crop A or crap E.
If you sound the word like it's spelled in my boat you're gonna swim home. It's crauppie for gosh goodness sake.
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Pie
Here in North Central Florida we call them "Specks" or "Speckled Perch"
We just call them “fish.” Everything else is something else.
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"potato chips" in some spots I hit :Rofl:Rofl:Rofl
Dad called the biguns, barndoors...
I like to call um for din din, and tonights the night...:cheers2
This is great! lol