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First time I heard the term "perch jerkin'", I was a little worried about the family I married into. Originally from Illinois and a frequenter of Wisconsin (aren't most Illini?) perch were yellow perch, famous for swallowing hooks next to the dock, and darn good Northern Pike bait. Having spent a lot of time in other parts of the south, I was pretty familiar with "bream" or "brim", but perch was a new one. Another Oklahoma term I heard was "toad pickin'". Before then, I never knew that sand toads were a favorite bait for trotliners. We even had the Greater Pond Creek Toad Pickin Association. Entry fee: 100 toads. True story, they have T-shirts and everything.