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Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND
Wrong wrong wrong 
Blackfish seems to be Newport-centric in RI; rest of the state calls it Tautog;
The guys east of Newport; i.e. fall riv call them Te-tog
As far as snagging; maybe the DEM guy thought they were shad or herring? |
True enough, Bry - to me they were, are and always will be blackfish.
Using the tautog nomenclature was the first and surest way to identify someone as Not From These Parts.
The pronunciation of 'tautog' was another way to identify them by regional dialect. People from Fall River would often call them 'TIT-tog' (with accent on the first syllable) - I had a protracted discussion with Professor O'Nitis on the entomology of species names one night in a saloon - he told me that someone had written something in regards to blackfish and spelled it as it sounded - which was T-I-T-T-O-G
The abbreviated " 'Tog" was indigenous to people from the Mid-Atlantic region we determined.
Ya know, come to think of it, we were fairly well along at that point, if memory serves....
