Bob said:
I call white perch "crappie" on this forum just for uniformity. In real life, I call them "white perch" and sac-a-lait. I'm building my pond in a community called "Patasa", in honor of the white perch.
More memories! When I left Vicksburg, I went to New Orleans, often leaving from there to fish early in the morning in the bougalies (?how to spell), and was happy to catch sac-a-lait (bag of milk, literally, or so I understand) when I could.
I need some help with patasa. I found lots of references to a sweet in India by that name and found the town you mentioned when I looked on the net, but what is its relationship to white perch? I found one place that said that patasa is a Choctaw word for a flat fish, and I guess that could more or less fit sac-a-lait.
Lou
