Crappie Or Crappie? 2024

tomustang reply :

How's your regions tounge when it comes to saying crappie? Do you hear/say Crap-pe or Crop-ee more? I hear Crap-pe more often.

Or perhaps you hear these instead: papermouths, strawberry bass, speckled bass or specks, speckled perch, calico bass, sacaulait, oswego

WookieeJedi reply :

Sac-a-lait, or white perch. Don't ask me why, they aren't perch and they aren't white.

Marty reply :

The people I talk to say Crappie, although a few dictionaries I just checked say Croppie is correct. I generally hear Croppie only on TV.

Of all the nicknames for this fish, the one most frequently heard around here is Strawberry Bass. I've never heard or seen sac-a-lait except on forum discussions like this. Nobody ever says "I went sac-a-lait fishing today."

tomustang reply :

I wouldn't doubt Croppie is better TV word, I do find it amusing when a mom walks her kids out by the water and asks if we're catching anything, "some crap-pe" with her kids chuckle and the moms face beet red

Bassn Blvd reply :

Mostly call'em Specs around here.Some say croppie, but mostly specs.

slonezp reply :

Was at Guntersville last month. A conversation with a woman in the elevator at the hotel went like this

"Been fishing?"

"Yep, been here all week."

"Crappie?"

"Yep. Fishing's been crappy all week."

"I meant are you fishing for crappie?"

Mountain Angler reply :

we say both but there is more crappie saying haha

ww2farmer reply :

Everyone I know calls them Crappies, or Calico Bass, I have heard Strawberry Bass used a time or two as well. The only time I hear them called Croppies is also on TV. Usually by people fromt he south, the Lindners or In-fisherman guys call them Crappies.

J Francho reply :

I call them dinner.

SDoolittle reply :

Back home (Oklahoma) we pronounce it "crop-ee". While we're at it, we also call white bass "sand bass", and all bluegills, shellcrackers, pumpkinseeds, etc. are called "perch".

00 mod reply :

Crop-ee! Crappy is the weather right now, or else I would be fishing!

Jeff

grimlin reply :

I hear the word crappie all the time to the point I accidentally started saying it now too.

SoCalFisher reply :

On 4/5/2012 at 9:58 AM, ww2farmer said:

Everyone I know calls them Crappies, or Calico Bass, I have heard Strawberry Bass used a time or two as well. The only time I hear them called Croppies is also on TV. Usually by people fromt he south, the Lindners or In-fisherman guys call them Crappies.

Calico Bass are a saltwater bass. Why would anyone call it that. I live in California and have only heard them called croppie and people that don't know fish say crappie.

Bassn Blvd reply :

On 4/19/2012 at 12:29 PM, SoCalFisher said:

Calico Bass are a saltwater bass. Why would anyone call it that. I live in California and have only heard them called croppie and people that don't know fish say crappie.

That's why you're the resident expert.

northern basser reply :

Up here in MN it is "croppie"

clayton86 reply :

i hear it said both ways pretty even if i call the fishing hottline the guy calls em crap-pe. now like farmer said calico's i hear that more then anything when talking to the old timers my father-in-law and ever over 40 id say person i talk to calls them calico and corrects me if i say crappie/croppie and insists its calico bass. im also with francho there called dinner when i find a school of em.

Triton21 reply :

In NE Central Ky they are called Newlite.

Kelley

whitwolf reply :

Crappie....I never heard the other pronunciation(crop-ee) until I watched some fishing shows.

QUAKEnSHAKE reply :

Croppie here

tallydude reply :

On 4/3/2012 at 8:18 AM, Bassn Blvd said:

Mostly call'em Specs around here.Some say croppie, but mostly specs.

Doug knows this drives me nuts. I love Florida and miss it dearly, but the sound of someone calling my beloved crappies "specks" drove me up the wall. I live in Kansas now, where they pronounce the fish correctly and instead butcher the names of everything else.

Bassn Blvd reply :

Which sounds more appetizing?

Sir, would you like to sample our Crappie?

Sir, would you like to sample our Croppie?

Sir, would you like to sample our Speck?

Bass-minded reply :

Croppie. And bluegill and all that are brim.

Jake P reply :

We go white perch jerkin. We call em' croppie

Avalonjohn44 reply :

^{Crap-pee here. Also heard them called specs too. I like the name Strawberry Bass will start calling them that and see if it sticks...}

BamaBassChaser reply :

I've always called them Delicious.

WookieeJedi reply :

I pronounced this one delicious as well. He was right at 2# and had thick, flaky filets that were perfect breaded with rice flour, bread crumbs, and special seasoning. A little Big O's tartar, mmmmmm!

Got him on a Speed Craw while bass fishing.

Kyle Mahaffey reply :

I call them Croppie, because I don't want my 3 year old running around saying crap-pie. They tend to pick up bad words a lot better than regular words around my house.

tomustang reply :

Don't make it too complicated, just add butter

RoachDad reply :

On 4/5/2012 at 9:58 AM, ww2farmer said:
Everyone I know calls them Crappies, or Calico Bass, I have heard Strawberry Bass used a time or two as well. The only time I hear them called Croppies is also on TV. Usually by people fromt he south, the Lindners or In-fisherman guys call them Crappies.

Did you say that right? I never hear southerners say croppie. I live here. I did not even know it was optional till I was about 40! I don't watch Lindner because he is always going after walleye and other fish that we don't have but I would have guessed he was a croppie guy.

aquaholic reply :

croppie, mostly because i dont want to sound like an idiot saying im fishing for crappie

RoachDad reply :

On 5/27/2012 at 10:38 AM, Bassn Blvd said:

Which sounds more appetizing?

Sir, would you like to sample our Crappie?

Sir, would you like to sample our Croppie?

Sir, would you like to sample our Speck?

If that was the standard, nobody would say catfish.

roadwarrior reply :

Bored?

Diggin' deep for a year old thread.

For guys that target crappie around here they're pronounced "croppie".

But for those who like to make fun of them, it's "crappy".

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