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.
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.
Good fishing technique trumps all.....wish I had it.
up here they're called "sunnies."
My grandfather called bluegills "jonny roaches" but I haven't heard that in many years.
Also, around here crappies are known as "calico bass"
The simpler the outfit, the more skill it takes to manage it, and the more pleasure one gets in his achievements.
--- Horace Kephart
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.
As a kid we just called them (any in the sunfish family) - - - Perch.
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
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.".
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
Originally Posted by fishbum
The simpler the outfit, the more skill it takes to manage it, and the more pleasure one gets in his achievements.
--- Horace Kephart
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.