I remembered another one:

When I lived in Santa Barbara and we used live sardines/anchovies for Calico Bass, when you missed a strike and lost your bait, we called it "farmin' 'em". I suppose that meant we were fattening them up for next time.

They also had wierd names for fish down there, the same fish we have here. They called rockfish "sugar bass". I think that was because they made really good bait for other fish, especially because they were mainly pretty small. At least they didn't call them sea bass like crackers do around here.

Some of the pier fishers called the leopard sharks "tiger sharks". Even if I didn't have a degree in marine bio., I think that's a pretty easy distinction to make, and not a mistake you want to make if you happen to surf in the South Pacific anywhere!

They called cabezon "lingcod", and also called lingcod "lingcod", but somehow never confused themselves over which was which. They did, however, confuse me.

They like to call dogfish "sand sharks", which is fine with me, as lots of folks around here call them that. However, they maintained that dogfish and sand sharks were two different things, and that sand sharks were preferable for catching and eating. I never saw them catch what they called a dogfish, but I saw many dogfish caught and called sand sharks, then taken home to eat.

Barracuda were called 'gators, which I like, but I think that names already taken for pike and muskies and gars, isn't it?

Todd