re: Toledo Bend - Sac A Lait Report

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It's crappie everywhere else in the world.

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Per Wikipedia:

The common name (also spelled croppie[7] or crappé[8]) derives from the Canadian French crapet, which refers to many different fishes of the sunfish family. Other names for crappie are papermouths, strawberry bass, speckled bass or specks (especially in Michigan), speckled perch, white perch,[9] crappie bass, calico bass (throughout the Middle Atlantic states and New England),[10] and Oswego bass.[11]

In Louisiana, it is called sacalait[12] (Cajun French: sac-à-lait, lit.?'milk bag'),[13] seemingly an allusion to its milky white flesh or silvery skin.[14][15] The supposed French meaning is, however, folk etymology, because the word is ultimately from Choctaw sakli, meaning "trout".


Made me giggle about the south Louisiana folk claiming they are using the French name when it is actually Choctaw and Crappie is the name derived from French.

I have heard someone call them papermouths before.

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It's crappie everywhere else in the world.

Shreveport calling it a bream is just flat out wrong and too generic.

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No one has ever called a crappie a bream in Shreveport.

Three pages of the same played out argument that happens on this board 12 times a year.


Good luck fishing, I hope the fish are biting, report back

Bream



Sac a Lait

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Three pages of the same played out argument that happens on this board 12 times a year.

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Ummm, do you hunt and fish much with others? What you described is called "the way it is".

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Good to see you're a terrible poster here as well.

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Absolutely right, and I call them sac a lait

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Sac A Lait Report

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