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    Well folks I will tell y’all a secret that I try to keep from my fishin’ buddies down hair in North Carolina when I now “reside”. I was born in and lived in NE Ohio. Yes sir, I was born a Yankee.

    When I was a kid, me, my friends, and all my neighbors loved to go “Croppie” fishing. But just 12 miles East of where I grow up, just across the Pennsylvania Sate Line, they fished for “Crappie”. Then the other day I talked to a guy from Indiana and when I said “crappie” he laughed. He said they fish for “croppie”.

    So let’s take a pool, what area say “croppie” and which say “crappie”. May be fun to find out??
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    Up here in MI I've heard it pronounced "croppie", "speck", and in some parts "calico bass"...never "crappie"

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    The later. I'm from Arkansas and live in Missouri. I chuckle when they say it the other way.
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    We call them Sac A Lait down here! I have a tough time eating something that starts with Crap...

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    Jim .... look down at the very bottom of this page, under Similar Threads ... we've had this discussion a few times before !!


    Basically it boils down to "where" you are, as to "how" you pronounce the name. And then there's some that don't even call them "Crappie" (however you pronounce it), but use everything from regional nicknames to names of a totally different specie of fish (ie : calling them a "perch", "Batchelor Perch", or "Strawberry Bass").

    Most dictionary pronunciations will say "crop E" or "CROP e". I grew up hearing them pronounced "croppie", and even occasionally called "Newlights" (by my Grandfather). I never heard the word pronounced "crap E" until I fished in Tenn. Even there, some would balk at pronouncing it that way. I use both pronunciations, interchangeably, as most people I'm around know what I'm referring to, regardless of how it's pronounced.

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    Heard them all and way down here when I was a kid we mostly called them White Perch and some still do. I call them Croppie as far as pronouncing it, but spell it Crappie.

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    Quote Originally Posted by skiptomylu View Post
    Heard them all and way down here when I was a kid we mostly called them White Perch and some still do. I call them Croppie as far as pronouncing it, but spell it Crappie.
    I used to fish Skip's neck of the woods fairly regularly. Specially in winter when they stack up in the Chicken Coop. Just to agrevate my buddy(about 30 years ago), I was calling them "crappie". An old timer at the bait stand lined me out real quick and wanted to know where I came from. I also remember my grand father went "white perch" fishing when I was a kid in deep East Texas.
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    Croppie all the way from Indiana

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