Having grown up in central Oklahoma, I learned to call Blue Gill, Sunfish. Crappie was the White Crappie variety. Perch was a white or yellow perch. In California they were refered to by their "real" names of Blue Gill, Red ear and crappie, both black and white. In Missouri Crappie was both the black and white although I heard the black crappie refered to as the spotted crappie on occasion. Here in Missisippi. Bream (not brim) is a generic term that is applied to all of the sunfish family except Large mouth (black) bass. the bream family has the Blue Gill, Red Ear (shell cracker), Green Sunfish and Hybrid Blue Gill. Here the White Crappie is refered to as White Perch and the Black Crappie as simply crappie.


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Michael (Wooly) Woolum
State Certified Hunter Education Instructor
Hickory, MS