Fish names Cajun style
 

I have been reading through the forums and I have come across some interesting names for fish. I figured out that a Sac is a Crappie and such but what other names do you have for different fish.

Choupique spelling? Is a bowfin or grinel

Goujon for flat head catfish or gaspergou for fresh water drum.

tette dur = hard head catfish
lemon fish = cobia
sac aux lait = crappie
Be Ga No = oyster drill snail


Ducks are diffferent too

Grey Duck = Gadwall
Poul Do = Coot
French Duck = Mallard
Summer French = Mottled Duck

Chinquapin?

When I was a kid people use to call

Bass = Green Trout, I don't hear that a lot anymore

Bream is just about any sunfish. Goggle eye is a warmouth.

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Potahsa is a pot belly minnow but my paw calls all baitfish by that name.

Or just plain "goo" for freshwater drum.

chinquapin is a redear sunfish I believe

we call them larsh

Choupique = turd hustler.

A Potahsa used to be a perch.

Shpottom in Louisiana (Croatian term) = Piggy Perch in Texas.

Other differences I've noticed between La. and Tx.:

Cocahoe = Mud Minnow
Channel Mullet = Whiting
Lemon Fish = Cobia/Ling
White Trout = Sand Trout
Green Trout = Bass
Sac a Lait = Croppie

Welcome back Coach.... been awhile since you posted.

the correct spelling of white perch, aka crappie, is Sac Au Lait. It is French for Sack of milk, referring to the milk-white flesh of it's filets.

another term for chinquapin (redear sunfish) is shellcracker.

This is cool. It would seem that names are reused regionally. Here is a list of our common ones.

King salmon are also called Tyee, Springers, Chinook, Blackmouth, Undersized salmon are called shakers or Jacks

Silver salmon= Coho

Sockey Salmon = Red

Pogie here is a striped sea perch

sea trout is a kelp or rock greenling

You guys call cobia-ling which is what we call a Lingcod which aint a cod, but a greenling.

A hardhead here is a squawfish

We call bluegill perch

We get huge 100+ lb stingrays that we call mud marlin

Sturgeon are diamondbacks or dinos

Bluebacks are coastal spring run steelhead and half pounders are a special run of steelhead that come up the Klamath after only two years at sea.

Monkeyface eel is what we call *****lebacks

Sorebacks are Salmon that have spawned out and are just waiting to die while they hang out in the river.

Chinquapin are the small native chestnuts we pick up when we are grouse hunting in October.

Pogie in La. are Menhadden. Thanks for the welcome back Snorkler!

I was told it was called that because the throat looms like a sack of milk...... not the meat.