Originally Posted By: canyoncreek
That is crazy that generations of people in ontario will grow up not knowing the difference between a pickerel and a walleye! If someone from your area Dono catches a pickerel do they call it a pickerel too or is it just that they haven't ever seen a pickerel to know the difference?

How does a section of the US start calling a sunfish a perch?

I find it fascinating that everything in the south is a 'bream' I wonder how far north you get before the bream name drops away and they are called sunfish again?

Sunfish, warmouth, and rock bass are all very different, I wonder why their names are intertwined/confused with each other?


I find that Warmouth, Rockbass, and Green Sunfish are the three most commonly confused/mixed up/interchangeably named by those not schooled in the fishallurgical arts....

I grew up hearing GSF called "Old fashioned Bluegill"

Last edited by sprkplug; 09/23/16 04:17 PM.
"Forget pounds and ounces, I'm figuring displacement!"

If we accept that: MBG(+)FGSF(=)HBG(F1)
And we surmise that: BG(>)HBG(F1) while GSF(<)HBG(F1)
Would it hold true that: HBG(F1)(+)AM500(x)q.d.(=)1.5lbGRWT?
PB answer: It depends.