Super User WRB Posted July 5, 2023 Super User Posted July 5, 2023 The old name was Lunker followed by Pig, then Toad, now a Giant seems to a common name for a bass over 4 lbs. Smaller bass Keeper, Tight Eyes and Dink. Tom 2 Quote
Super User Swamp Girl Posted July 5, 2023 Author Super User Posted July 5, 2023 "Tight Eyes" is clever and new to me. 1 Quote
Super User AlabamaSpothunter Posted July 5, 2023 Super User Posted July 5, 2023 In the winter and fall when they are blowing up acres of threadfins, my favorite name for them is "Green Tunas" When Tunas and Bass chase bait, they look exactly the same. 2 Quote
Super User Swamp Girl Posted July 5, 2023 Author Super User Posted July 5, 2023 1 minute ago, AlabamaSpothunter said: In the winter and fall when they are blowing up acres of threadfins, my favorite name for them is "Green Tunas" When Tunas and Bass chase bait, they look exactly the same. Didn't know. So cool! 1 Quote
Super User AlabamaSpothunter Posted July 5, 2023 Super User Posted July 5, 2023 5 minutes ago, ol'crickety said: Didn't know. So cool! We'd go out 40-50m behind the Shrimp boats in the Gulf, and you'd catch Blackfins until you had to quit. You'd chum the waters, and hundreds of 25-50lb Tunas would appear. Incredible fish, and incredible power. Apex for sure. 3 1 Quote
Will Ketchum Posted July 5, 2023 Posted July 5, 2023 From the Merriam-Webster online dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mossback "a large sluggish fish (such as a largemouth bass)" 1 Quote
Super User Swamp Girl Posted July 5, 2023 Author Super User Posted July 5, 2023 1 hour ago, Will Ketchum said: From the Merriam-Webster online dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mossback "a large sluggish fish (such as a largemouth bass)" Sluggish? Why, if I had my fishing glove with me and was standing before the Merriam-Webster person who wrote that definition, I'd give him or her a good smack on the cheek. And then we'd cast musky lures at each other at 50 feet. 1 1 Quote
Super User LrgmouthShad Posted July 5, 2023 Super User Posted July 5, 2023 @FryDog62 you had me at Big Mac ?? Quote
Super User Catt Posted July 5, 2023 Super User Posted July 5, 2023 5 hours ago, ol'crickety said: "Tight Eyes" is clever and new to me. Tight Eyes describes "dinks" because their eyes are tight together. Hawg ? 1 Quote
Super User Columbia Craw Posted July 5, 2023 Super User Posted July 5, 2023 I think it will score ? Quote
Woody B Posted July 5, 2023 Posted July 5, 2023 When I was a kid an old man that would take me fishing said a "Pig" was 3 to 4.99 pounds, a "Hawg" was 5 to 7.99 pounds, a "Lunker" was over 8 pounds. This was for Largemouth. He called little ones "nubbins". 3 Quote
Super User Bankc Posted July 6, 2023 Super User Posted July 6, 2023 Big ones get called girl or her. Small ones get called boy or him. "Oh she's big!" But, there is a legend that goes by a different name. I hooked it once. I thought it was a stump because it was completely immovable, until I approached it to try to get unhooked, when it took off and broke my line. That, my friends, was Bassquach. I didn't see it, but I know that's what it was. Quote
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