Odd/nick names for fish species

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Mark Hodson

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Whilst reminicing with an old friend who was in the same junior match team as me 16 years ago we remembered that we always called gudgeon "pongos" as did every one else on the midlands cut circuit. Does anyone know where this term comes from or does any know of other regional nicknames for different species.
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay

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Pike: Snappers (Matt Hayes)
Bream: Snotties (Carp anglers)
Perch: Billies or Sergeant Majors
Tench: Tincas (Latin)
Roach: Redfins
Dace: Dart or dare.
Trout: Spotties
Salmon: Silver tourists
Barbel: Boris
Eels: Snigs (Old English term)
Chub: Loggerheads (Walton)
Bleak: Willowblades (Old Lincs term)
Ruffe: Tommy Ruffe (Northern), Daddy Ruffe (Midlands) Pope (South) Ruffe Slapper (Mank)
Rudd: Rudd

Carp: ?$*&^%in B"?$%&(*)( Vermin!!

(Clay)
 
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Baz

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A pair of eyes. A northern term for small perch.

Billy. A larger Perch.
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay

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A quote from Matt Hayes:

"I'm a Dapper Snapper and I'm looking for a Slapper."

Does that mean a small pike looking to eat a ruffe.

Truly, the bloke actually wrote that in AT!!!
 
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Danny Lancaster

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Gudgeon = Gonks
Perch = Billies
Small Roach = Razor Blades, pair of eyes
Big Roach = Dogs, Daddy Roach
Tench = Teddy Bears, Rubber balls
Ruffe = Tommy Ruffe
Bream = Snotties, Slabs, Bin-Lids
 
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Ian "snotman" Foden

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Bream, (expert on this one) - latin names

Specimen bream = slabicus binlidicus
Decent bream = slabicus snoticus
Skimmers = skimmericus snoticus

Chub = rubber lips
Perch= Williams
Grayling = greythings
 
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Alan Tyler

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Chub = "rub-a-dub" down here (dahn 'ere), and yonks ago I met a chap from Oxfordshire who told me that, as kids, he and friends would catch crayfish (pre-plague); a big'un was called an "Alex".
 
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Robert Woods 1

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Volunteers = small roach & perch with a headache. Generally found in bait box for Irish pike.
 
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Homie

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Big Bream = Bivvy Slippers (curtosy of the carp lads on Fishing Warehouse) Wonkers!!!
 
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Cakey

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Barbel = carp that didnt quite make it
roach = livebait (the bigger the better)
bream = fisbies
 
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smutts = smouthounds
checkers/shoalies = bass
slimers = silver eels
devil fish = bullheads

dinner = cod
 
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