wrote:

FWIW, some older Southerners (and probably others), not concerned with
all the various names of the subspecies of black bass, call any
"smallmouth" bass (i.e., all of the small-mouthed bass) "green perch." I
didn't follow the link, so I don't know about the context of whatever
was contained at the link.

The White House has a belated transcript of the interview, attributing
"perch" to a mistranslation. Now their story is that it was a bass,
which is at least plausible.

If catching a 7.5 pound bass was the high point of Bush's tenure as
president, just think what a high catching Osama bin Laden would have been.

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