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.
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