smerchly Posted October 14, 2022 Report Share Posted October 14, 2022 As a kid we called some fish different names from what we call them now . Here are some .... Walleye ................Pickerel Small Mouth Bass .........Black Bass Bowfin ..........dog Fish Alewife ........Shiner Log Perch ......Sand Pike Burbot ....Ling , eel pout Pumpkinseed .....sunfish Now , "Walleye " makes more sense now because they have a walleye which glows when a light shines on them in the dark .... This is my 10 lb. "eye" which I caught ice fishing the B.O.Q. and mounted it using a piece of aluminum foil inside the eye ....hanging in the basement. Hence , it is a true wall eye ..... knightfisher and Bubba14 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler0420 Posted October 14, 2022 Report Share Posted October 14, 2022 Smerch that thing must of been a blast to catch through the ice. Great job on the mount. smerchly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave524 Posted October 14, 2022 Report Share Posted October 14, 2022 9 hours ago, smerchly said: As a kid we called some fish different names from what we call them now . Here are some .... Walleye ................Pickerel Small Mouth Bass .........Black Bass Bowfin ..........dog Fish Alewife ........Shiner Log Perch ......Sand Pike Burbot ....Ling , eel pout Pumpkinseed .....sunfish Now , "Walleye " makes more sense now because they have a walleye which glows when a light shines on them in the dark .... This is my 10 lb. "eye" which I caught ice fishing the B.O.Q. and mounted it using a piece of aluminum foil inside the eye ....hanging in the basement. Hence , it is a true wall eye ..... the common name Walleye was not adopted till 1933 so perhaps that is why you called them Pickeral in your younger days https://ontariowalleyefishing.com/ontario-walleye-biology-fishing-resource/ Davidp16 and boogaloo 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerchly Posted October 14, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2022 Good info Dave . I became a "walleye" member in 1943 when Dad called them pickerel , and I still have a tendency to call them pickerel when speaking with other 'old timers' . Now they could have called them " white caudal fins " ha ! I fished the 12 Mile with Dad when I was 7-9 yrs .old and we caught "blues" . ....about 1950 . At that time fish from Lake Ont. could easily run the length of the 12 through the locks at P.Dalhousie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisb Posted October 14, 2022 Report Share Posted October 14, 2022 Old timer I fished with called them Yellows. That was from when there was yellows and blues in lake Erie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerchly Posted October 14, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2022 31 minutes ago, Chrisb said: Old timer I fished with called them Yellows. That was from when there was yellows and blues in lake Erie. I have always wondered if those 'blues' could survive going through the Decew hydro turbines to get into the 12 ... Lake Gibson - Moody is fed by L.Erie via the Welland Ship Canal . At one time Moody was full of silver bass as we caught them from the string of 'rafts' that acted as a boom for the canal intakes . (very dangerous) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genec Posted October 14, 2022 Report Share Posted October 14, 2022 I always thought pickerel was the Canadian name for them and walleye just the yankee version. Davidp16 and boogaloo 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerchly Posted October 14, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2022 Just now, genec said: I always thought pickerel was the Canadian name for them and walleye just the yankee version. I agree , the yanks have called them walleye for years , but they also have a chain pickerel that is a type of pike to me . (same yapper) and the French call the dore which means "coated with gold" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genec Posted October 14, 2022 Report Share Posted October 14, 2022 One of my daughters lives in Quispamsis, New Brunswick, and there is chain pickerel in their lake. I always catch (and release) a few off their dock each time we visit - they do look very much like a pike. Davidp16 and knightfisher 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave524 Posted October 15, 2022 Report Share Posted October 15, 2022 10 hours ago, Chrisb said: Old timer I fished with called them Yellows. That was from when there was yellows and blues in lake Erie. I remember going out of Port Colborne for Blues with dad in the mid fifties , they were a small pickeral , average a pound and a half maybe rarely over 2, we would anchor deep water much like perching today and use minnows. Yellows were a trolling game , June Bug spinners were popular with a worm on the hook, they pulled like crazy for a 6 year old edit: we called them Blue Pickerel the Yanks from Buffalo called them Blue Pike smerchly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jwl1 Posted October 15, 2022 Report Share Posted October 15, 2022 When I was a kid there was a group of Americans that used to frequent a spot I fished....they fished for crappie and used to call them calicos boogaloo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smerchly Posted October 15, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2022 Just now, Jwl1 said: When I was a kid there was a group of Americans that used to frequent a spot I fished....they fished for crappie and used to call them calicos We also called them calico bass Jack . I actually like that name better than crapp peas. A black friend I fished with called the " crawpies " . Also , when we were kids we called crayfish "crabs" . We caught dozens in a man made pond we called "Colin Davidson's Pond" which is now filled with houses. I'm going back over 70 years ago Jack ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coyotehunter Posted October 15, 2022 Report Share Posted October 15, 2022 When I was in Louisiana they called crayfish "mud bugs" or "crawdads" and liked to put them in a "boil" with corn on the cob and taters. We caught blues off Lowbanks until the seventies. "Pickerel" were caught trolling by rowing.....no outboards in those days and men were men. And it was a June Bug spinner with a Yellow Sally and a worm. Smallmouths were brown bass in New Brunswick. dave524 and smerchly 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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