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Originally Posted by ivanputski
i have often wondered what the borderline was in Rhode Island where people stop calling them bunker, and start calling them pogies... my observation is that north of warwick, its pogies, and south its bunker... i cant get used to calling them pogies... being from CT and weekapaug in the summer, Ive always known them as BUNKER. oh well... stupid observation.
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When I was a kid, most guys in RI called them menhaden. They also called a fluke a "flounder" and a flounder a "flatfish". Chubs (killies to New Yorkers) were mummichogs or choggies, as opposed to what we call a choggie on the Cape (a cunner).
Having lived in RI, NY and Mass, I sometimes use all the names. I still call a weakfish that, instead of a squeteague. But a tautog is a tautog, not a blackfish.