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Old 04-25-2008, 10:17 PM
duffy4 duffy4 is offline
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As someone mentioned above, "Common Names" are really never right or wrong.

And the use of common names will always have the danger of creating confusion. Like if I am planning a trip to the mountains to hunt "goat" and you tell me that last year you shot a really nice "goat" and I say where abouts and you say Brooks area.

Seems a lot of people say "Rocky Mountain Whitefish" or "Rockies" and I think the common name is usually just "Mountain Whitefish"

New common names get created for some reason. "Yotes" and "Whities" and "booners" and "hogs"

I like to call them "Walleyes" but my favorite meal is "Pickerel cheeks".

Robin in Rocky
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