My Daughter #2 fully agrees with DD1.
She started fishing in a LMB-BG-GSF at age 3. We had brush piles in about 4-5' of water. She would cast her bobber with a bit of worm, and when the bobber would go 6" underwater, she would set the hook, feel the fish bend her rod, and yell "Daddy, I got a good one!" Those were the GSF that she loved to catch.
She would cast back in, and her bobber would start moving around the surface and twitching. Finally, it would go 2" underwater and she would pause and set the hook, but miss the fish. Then I would hear, "Daddy, I need more worm, I have a sneaky fish over here." She would keep working until she finally managed to catch the sneaky fish, which was always a BG. She HATED "sneaky fish"!
Rarely, she would hook a 12" bass with her tiny bit of worm. As it was taking out drag, I would hear "Daddy, I got one of the big, green ones."
The bass in that pond were always greener than even the green sunfish. However, she definitely preferred catching a mess of GSF compared to catching a few bass. She considered the sneaky BG to be an annoyance.
I still have fond memories of the days when she used her own names for the fish species, rather than the names that I used.
