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Thread: Ling? Lemon fish? Cobia?
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04-10-2016, 09:00 PM #1
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Ling? Lemon fish? Cobia?
Heard them called all three names growing up. Why?
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04-10-2016, 09:06 PM #2
kinda like dorado,mahi mahi or dolphin ......why not?
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04-11-2016, 12:04 AM #3
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Many fresh water fish have a thousand different names too. Like the Choupique, grinnel, cypress trout, mud fish or dog fish. I call them a few other names too when I'm bass fishing and one of them bite instead.
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04-11-2016, 12:19 AM #4
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Cobia is the official name, Rachycentron canadum is the Latin name.
Colloquial (or common) names are often descriptive of a species, or misnomers for similar looking fish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobia
Other common names include black kingfish, black salmon, ling, lemonfish, crabeater, prodigal son, black bonito, and aruan tasek.
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04-11-2016, 07:07 AM #5
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How about Whiting, ground mullet, kingfish.
Or crappie, calico, sacaulat, papermouths, white perchCarl
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Disclaimer: This post and/or report is not a substantiation of or reflection on the true accuracy of the present stock assessment methods. It is only an anecdotal report on or comment concerning local observations. Your results may vary.
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04-11-2016, 08:19 AM #7
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04-11-2016, 08:36 AM #8
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And cobia are found in different oceans, I think, and get some of their names from different locales. But not triple tails?
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No one mentioned my favorite name........................ Dinner! So good!
Absolutely! That would be great. Always enjoy meeting folks and talking while fishing together. The pier is a special place but mostly so because of the special folks that fish there!
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