Very seldom do you hear anything but "perch" in south La. Occasionally "brim". I only started using more specific terms when I started writing for readers beyond my local area.

To further complicate matters, crappie here are "sac-au-lait" or French for "sack of milk" for the delectable flesh; redears are "chinquapin", and rock bass/warmouth type fish are "goggle-eye." Then there's "choupique" which are the bowfin, and "gaspergou" which are freshwater drum. Also you have to deal with "goojahn" which is the yellow catfish.

Don't even get me started on crawfish, crayfish, mudbugs, crawdads...

R

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