Fish names and nick names
Submitted by carnarvonite on Thu, 2010-09-09 20:45
On a recent post someone put in a new name for mulloway,--mullagores!! Why would you give a fish a new nickname that has more letters in it than its proper name. Have and still do hear them called kingies, river kingies, croakers and silver kingies plus the eastern staters [othersiders] jewfish or jewel fish.
Herring are one fish that doesn't have a nickname yet have seen some call them as "Hezza's" ?? never heard of them.
Samson fish, sambo's, sea kingies, kingies and lots of indecipherable things when someone has a big one on his line.
Salmon have always been known as salmon Tailor, blue backs[ real big ones] Choppers [small] Break sea cod, black arse , Marcia Hynes, BB'S and many more.
Brucesta
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good size coral trout -
good size coral trout - Troutosaurus
GT's - G-Buses, G-Bangers, G-Trains
Blackspot Tuskfish - Bluebone
Threadfin Slamon - Threadies
Barramundi - Barry Mundy, Bazzamundi, Baz
Spanish Macks - Mack Daddy, Spaniard
all pretty common i guess to most, there is probably more, actually blue lined emporer - Tricky snapper, black snapper
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Brucesta
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sounds too correct when you
sounds too correct when you use the right name, that's colloquialism for you. A big black jew i call a Kingie also and not a mulloway due to the difference but that is influence from =my mate's family who are native to our land, very funny people to fish with, 200lb handline minimum and they catch the fish too, better than us with our 20lb braid and baicasters
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carnarvonite
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Handlines
Spent a couple of weeks at Bidjidanga years back as a guest of a mate who was running the store then. This day he had to work and sent one of his workers to come fishing with me [needed a guide through the tracks in "men's land"] All he had was the heavy handline , 6/0 hooks and big ball sinkers.
Well I got him using a rod with a chrome slice lure, casting at a school of silver trevs around 3-4 kg, he was having a ball. He was a convert to rods from that day on. Out fished him by about 5 to 1 fishing the bottom in 15 metres of water him with the handline and me with a 6 foot ugly stik guts butt with an Abu cardinal reel and 20lb line.
Mind you I still use his technique when fishing heavy bottom from the shore. Big ball sinker running straight down to the single hook, big bait, no stopper or swivel, most times you can get it back every time by simply whipping the rod tip straight up and winding like mad.
Brucesta
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must say this one day we got
must say this one day we got a Black Jew (Kingie) that made the handline look like cotton, barely got it in so thank goodness i didn't hook it on the braid, fishing from the shore too mind you so i couldn't chase. My mates Nanna pissed herself laughing when she saw what we brought to fish with and promptly told us we can give her all the fresh bait we catch.
I still use the rods and reels, nothing better if you ask me hands down. You just need the right one :)
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carnarvonite
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Samsons
There is a spot in 60 metres off Yallingup for samson fish, used to love going there with a newie on the boat and drop the big hand lines over. That is IMO the only way to feel the full power they can produce. 300lb mono with a set of 8/0 tarpons and a full mulie for bait.
Have heard sambo's called every name in the book once the line starts to burn its way through your fingers.
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dont know
dont know!!
FEEEISH ONNN!!!
Buz
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They call the old Hezza
They call the old Hezza (herring), Tommy Ruff in NSW. Also heard them call Salmon, Sambo's.
Tailor in the USA are called Bluefish i think.
Much like up north are they Fingermark Bream or Golden Snapper?. Having lived in Darwin i call them Golden Snapper :)
I find it fun hearing different names for the same fish. Though this obviously leads to confusion alot of times, its a cool to get in with the locals lingo for their fish, or fush!!!! hahaha.
But the funniest i find is the multitude of fish that generally get labled as SHITFISH. Which even then gets shortened to SHIT'IES!
fishfish
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Green Backs ??
I always thought the monster tailor were called "green backs " ????
cheers fishfish
ps I've got a new favourite with the Marcia Hynes version of the Breaksea !!!!!
Buz
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Yeah heard the Kalbarri/Gero
Yeah heard the Kalbarri/Gero locals call them Green Backs too.
All that i usually get to say though is 'Holy C#*p did you see the size of that!!!!!'
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i've also seen big Tailor
i've also seen big Tailor called Green Backs as well.
W.A and south of Broome, Fingermark Bream, north of Broome where they get bigger then Golden Snapper for me
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Gold band, goldies. Yellow
Gold band, goldies. Yellow tail , yakkas. Black Bream, blacks. then you have all the diff names for tuna like stripies , striped tuna . you get the drift
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king george
king george of a decent size - = a kidney slapper
winner winner chicken dinner
grayzeee
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why is a big kg called a
why is a big kg called a kidney slapper ?????
If I spent half as long fishing , as I do reading this bloody forum , I'd be twice the fisherman I am.
Faulkner Family
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with the big ones if you
with the big ones if you hold them to you they will flap around enough to slap the kidney region with their tail
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carnarvonite
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Tail
Because when you hold it to take the hooks out its tail is long enough to reach round and hit your back over where your kidneys are located.
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beat you to it John . you
beat you to it John
. you just said it a better way 
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They
They keep it simple in the NT, so they dont get to confused!
Any kind of emporer = Trickie snapper
Saddletail = Redfish
croc = lizard
UncutTriggerInWA
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Wrasse = Sh*t Fish
Anyone know them as anything else? LOL
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yeah, we know them as BAIT.
yeah, we know them as BAIT. actually the western king wrasse arent bad eating when you get a big one
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i know its not one fish
but ive seen 'samberjacks' posted alot because they cant work out if its a sambo and amberjack
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alfred
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No mention of billies yet??
No mention of billies, stick face etc yet?? I'm surprised.
woody
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what about mulies here in WA
what about mulies here in WA and pilchards over East.....
Pink snapper here....red over east.....
Dhufish here....small version over east called Pearl Perch....
crasny1
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Love the South African names for Tailor and Mulloway
I still think the term Mulloway is by far the best name of any fish, because if you are targetting them you will "mull away the time". In SA they are Kabeljoh (wrong spelling) and tailor is Elf.
Other best fish name is a Gobblegut. Man they have a huge mouth for such a tiny fish.
Stargazers - OOgly, fugly etc
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DieHard
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i thought it was? Mulloway-
i thought it was?
Mulloway- Kob
Tailor - Shad ?
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flangies
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Depends on the location..
Depends on the location.. I've talked to a few SA anglers who all call their tailor three different names.
Simon C
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hippocodamus
generally referring to any large member of the cod family that makes you piss and takes your yummy bottom fish and then proceeds to make you bust a valve.
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galloper
for chinamen cod, wrongs for dusty morong
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
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Dusty morwongs
Used to call Dusty morwongs just plain morons, crabs are scabs Port Jackson sharks are known as dog sharks
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Gobbleguts
That fits them to a tee. Bloody big mouth for a teenie fish.
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DieHard
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Blowies - Piece of Sh*t, or
Blowies - Piece of Sh*t, or popping sounds :P
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dr who
for wahoo
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
Davy_G
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garfish -
garfish - Gar, gardie
herring - hezza
big bream - blue lip, blue nose
Flathead - Flattie, lizzard
only ones I can think of at the moment,
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nigger.................blackf
nigger.................blackfish
pickhandle...............barracouta
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samson fish: sambo pink
samson fish: sambo
pink snapper: pinkie, red, schnapper
sailsfish: sailie
blowfish: blowie,
skipjack: skippy
blackbream: blackie
queen snapper: rubber lips
wrasse: big teeth, shit fish
herring tommyrough
danno
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salmon- sambos(over
salmon- sambos(over east)
skippy- blurter(over east)
yellow tail king- small ones rats big one i think get call hodlums
flathead- frog(over east)
sea gars- over east sourey( if thats how its spelt) i think???
pink snapper- pinkies, pinkie snapper.
southern calamari- calas, southerners
thats all i can remember.
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Can't remember the name of
Can't remember the name of the fish in particular but the old man used to tell me about fishing and only catching a 'Butchers Prick'. I am guessing a shit fish that was pretty slippery as in 'slippery as a butchers prick'
Cheers
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Golden Trevor
Mick Jagger.
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queen snapper - angelina
queen snapper - angelina jolie fish
winner winner chicken dinner