Hefty Fish

Heifer

Fatty

Is that a log

 

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

 

"Tight Eyes" is clever and new to me. 

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.  

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!

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.    

 

 "GreenPig"

Slob 

From the Merriam-Webster online dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mossback

"a large sluggish fish (such as a largemouth bass)"

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.

@FryDog62 you had me at Big Mac ??

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 ?

I think it will score ?

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".   

I gots me a BIG Un!

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.