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

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

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."

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

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

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?"

we say both but there is more crappie saying haha

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.

I call them dinner.

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".

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

Jeff

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

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.

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.

Up here in MN it is "croppie"

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.

In NE Central Ky they are called Newlite.

Kelley

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

Croppie here

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.

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?

Croppie. And bluegill and all that are brim.

We go white perch jerkin. We call em' croppie

^{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...}

I've always called them Delicious.