What do you call a "bluegill"?

[Big Bad Wulff]

Eight million names for roughly the same fish. What do YOU call it?
Personally I just call them "bluegills". Locally they call them "Brim"(Bream). I doubt seriously they really know it's spelled bream and not brim.

[white43]

up here they're called "sunnies."

[dudley]

My grandfather called bluegills "jonny roaches" but I haven't heard that in many years.
Also, around here crappies are known as "calico bass"

[meadowlark2]

I call them awesome....but also use the common name. In our ponds, we distinguish between native BG, copper nosed BG, and hybrid BG...all are awesome.

[soloman]

As a kid we just called them (any in the sunfish family) - - - Perch.

[DaleW]

What distinguishs bream from bluegil in these parts, is the bream have a copper colored belly.

Also ... there's crappy, or also called croppy. Here's how I tell the difference here:

croppy (if your catching them)

crappy (if your not!)


Dale

[BassYakker]

If I don't want to describe my catch as "stumpknockers" (spotted sunfish), "shellcrackers" (red-eared sunfish), warmouths, and bluegill: I will just say, "I caught some bream.".

[fishbum]

I call them "the greatest fish that swims." Probably more people fish for bluegills with a fly-rod than any other fish that swims in the United States.

fishbum

[dudley]

I call them "the greatest fish that swims." Probably more people fish for bluegills with a fly-rod than any other fish that swims in the United States,

[dsaavedra]

i call bluegills bluegills, crappies are crappies, pumpkinseeds are pumpkin seeds, redears are redears(occasionallly a shellcracker, not often) and the whole general species, panfish.