I'm a travelin' mannnnnn.....

"Frank Church" wrote in message :
I stopped by
to chat and found out that the speck fishing is hot right now (that's
*crappies to us yankees) and the "brim" and bass fishing are picking up as
well.
Frank Church..who thinks I one damn lucky fella...
*pronounced "croppies" to our offshore brethren

Wait a minute! I don't understand. Specks are Speckled trout or Spotted Sea
Trout and are salt water fish and Crappie are freshwater fish in the same
family as Bass and Sunfish (Brim). Is that what you meant to say?


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TL
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"egildone" wrote in
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"Frank Church" wrote in message :
I stopped by
to chat and found out that the speck fishing is hot right now (that's
*crappies to us yankees) and the "brim" and bass fishing are picking
up as well.
Frank Church..who thinks I one damn lucky fella...
*pronounced "croppies" to our offshore brethren

Wait a minute! I don't understand. Specks are Speckled trout or
Spotted Sea Trout and are salt water fish and Crappie are freshwater
fish in the same family as Bass and Sunfish (Brim). Is that what you
meant to say?

....nope. Crappies south of the Mason/Dixon line are "specks", and true,
they are freshwater fish. Some call them "papermouth" for good reason. I've
lost more than a few due to their tender mouth.

Frank Church

"Frank Church" wrote in message
9.11...
"egildone" wrote in
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...nope. Crappies south of the Mason/Dixon line are "specks", and true,
they are freshwater fish. Some call them "papermouth" for good reason.
I've
lost more than a few due to their tender mouth.


Along the southern coast when one mentions Spec's they are usually speaking
of the speckled trout. So you're both right to small degree.

Next time you're in Indy, drop me a note.

Wayne

Frank Church wrote:


...nope. Crappies south of the Mason/Dixon line are "specks", and true,
they are freshwater fish. Some call them "papermouth" for good reason. I've
lost more than a few due to their tender mouth.


well, i'm sure i've missed the southern nomenclature bus more than a
time or two... but from my experience in this part of nc, "crappie" are
crappie, and "specks" are either the sal****er speckled trout (with
fangs) or the native brookies. if i have to add another speck to my fish
speak, folks would have to speck-u-late about my meaning...

jeff

Jeff Miller wrote in
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well, i'm sure i've missed the southern nomenclature bus more than a
time or two... but from my experience in this part of nc, "crappie"
are crappie, and "specks" are either the sal****er speckled trout
(with fangs) or the native brookies. if i have to add another speck to
my fish speak, folks would have to speck-u-late about my meaning...

...are you fishing for a debate here Jeff? :-) Personally, I never heard
crappies being referred to as specks until migrating south of the MD line.
I wonder about the regional difference of speckled trout v crappie, I can
see where confusion would arise if both were referred to as specks. Ah what
the hell, does it really matter? If sal****er specks taste as good as
freshwater specks, who cares?

Frank Church
....filets fried to a crisp golden brown, a cold Coors...**

Frank Church wrote:

Jeff Miller wrote in
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well, i'm sure i've missed the southern nomenclature bus more than a
time or two... but from my experience in this part of nc, "crappie"
are crappie, and "specks" are either the sal****er speckled trout
(with fangs) or the native brookies. if i have to add another speck to
my fish speak, folks would have to speck-u-late about my meaning...


..are you fishing for a debate here Jeff? :-)

nope, i know better. just making a comment about this part of the
south... it's probably a regional thing... i think i heard someone,
jimmy houston maybe, refer to crappie as specks...but i just thought it
a texarkana comment g... crappie have speckled spots kinda like
speckled sal****er trout...

the salt trout are reported to be tasty... i've caught a bunch of the
small ones and never kept them. went out to the cape lookout rock jetty
on saturday hoping to catch a few 3-5 pounders, but all i caught was a
chill. can't wait til the shad and crappie start the spawn runs...

jeff

Frank wrote:snip If sal****er specks taste as good as
freshwater specks, who cares?

They taste even better.

Big Dale

"Jeff Miller" wrote in message
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Frank Church wrote:


...nope. Crappies south of the Mason/Dixon line are "specks", and true,
they are freshwater fish. Some call them "papermouth" for good reason.
I've
lost more than a few due to their tender mouth.


well, i'm sure i've missed the southern nomenclature bus more than a
time or two... but from my experience in this part of nc, "crappie" are
crappie, and "specks" are either the sal****er speckled trout (with
fangs) or the native brookies. if i have to add another speck to my fish
speak, folks would have to speck-u-late about my meaning...

jeff

IJ count -them-plates--
Oh Jeff you are so witty at 4:30 in am.---the specks off rock jetty almost
look like rainbows and are very good eating.

jeff wrote:well, i'm sure i've missed the southern nomenclature bus more than
a
time or two... but from my experience in this part of nc, "crappie" are
crappie, and "specks" are either the sal****er speckled trout (with
fangs) or the native brookies. if i have to add another speck to my fish
speak, folks would have to speck-u-late about my meaning...

I also have heard brookies refered to as specks, but your comment about
speck-u-late is coming very close to what my Cajun froiend call crappie . I
never have been able to pronounce, much less spell anything in Cajun, but they
call crappie something that sounds like sauk-a lat. I will have to try to nail
that down when I am in Lafayette to tie at the Acadia Fly Rodders club. I wish
I had seen this post before last weekend when I saw Tom Landry from Lafayette
as we were in ardansas for the most beautiful snowstorm this old Texan had ever
seen. One guy's truck had 4 inches of snow on top of the antenna ball.

Big Dale

Big Dale wrote:

I also have heard brookies refered to as specks, but your comment about
speck-u-late is coming very close to what my Cajun froiend call crappie . I
never have been able to pronounce, much less spell anything in Cajun, but they
call crappie something that sounds like sauk-a lat.

Sac-a-lait.

http://www.thejump.net/fishlist/crappie.htm

I like James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux novels, in which Robicheaux
fishes for sac-a-lait in LA (a lot) and for trout in MT (not so much).

JR