Fish names Cajun style

[hawgsquatch]

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.

[ChrisD]

Choupique spelling? Is a bowfin or grinel

[fishaholic82]

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

[Sightwindow]

Originally Posted by fishaholic82

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

Or just plain "goo" for freshwater drum.

[swamp snorkler]

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

[Goooh]

Chinquapin?

[swamp snorkler]

When I was a kid people use to call

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

[Smalls]

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

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[Vermillionaire]

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

[swamp snorkler]

Originally Posted by Vermillionaire

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

we call them larsh

[Sightwindow]

Originally Posted by swamp snorkler

we call them larsh

It was always my understanding that the Gulf Killifish is a cocaho minnow, aka larsh.

Also, a Fat Sleeper is what is known as a Storm Minnow, the bigger, softer iteration of the cocaho that comes out in the big late summer tides and especially tropical systems. Beautiful little thing with a large blue spot near its head.

[elebouef]

Originally Posted by Vermillionaire

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

A Potahsa used to be a perch.

[jpeff31787]

chinquapin is a redear sunfish I believe

[wishin i was fishin]

Choupique = turd hustler.

[coachlaw]

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

[swamp snorkler]

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

[ScubaLatt]

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.

[swamp snorkler]

Originally Posted by ScubaLatt

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.

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

[ScubaLatt]

another term for chinquapin (redear sunfish) is shellcracker.

[hawgsquatch]

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.