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10-03-2011, 09:10 AM
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What is a "choggie"?
On Saturday, some college buddies and I did a trip on the SNAPPA out of Pt Judith (which is a beautiful 6-pack boat with a very nice captain). We were fishing for porgies and sea bass, catching mostly porgies. I caught what the capt called a "choggie", which the capt said would be a great sea bass bait, and he was right, we caught lots of sea bass on the chunks of that "choggie".
So, by what other names does a "choggie" go by? It was maybe a foot long, reddish-brown...
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10-03-2011, 09:26 AM
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Another name for the Cunner, (Tautogolabrus adspersus). has some pretty cool little teeth, common around pilings and the like, often see them in lobster traps. Cool little fish.
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10-03-2011, 10:12 AM
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I think they are also called Wrase by some. They make good striper bait live-lined. And if you go out on the Frances Fleet they really make em sound good by calling them Ocean Perch.
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Everything is better on the rocks.
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10-03-2011, 11:01 AM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
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Cunners. Called bergalls in NY/NJ and choggies in eastern New England.
They're from the wrasse family and a cousin to tautog. Pretty good eating if you can catch one big enough to fillet. Back when I was a kid, the old Portuguese guys would catch them by the bucket, and their wives would make some sort of fish soup from them.
The cormorants in the Canal have put a real hurting on their numbers.
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10-04-2011, 12:24 PM
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I Had A BLAST!
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I call 'em bait thieves. We used to get a ton of 'em, small ones though right behind my dad's boat in Sheepshead Bay. They were a lot of fun to catch as a kid!
Last edited by jimmy z; 10-04-2011 at 01:54 PM..
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10-04-2011, 12:30 PM
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We catch big ones all the time while codfishing on Cox's ledge. They are good eating. The biggest one I ever saw we caught on the west side of Block while scup fishing, the thing had to be over 3 pounds.
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10-04-2011, 01:19 PM
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Last time I went for cod on the ledge I was deemed the chogmaster.  |
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10-04-2011, 01:49 PM
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I've seen them called for in the making of authentic Boullibase (fish stew, pardon the spelling)
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10-04-2011, 03:55 PM
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I hear choggies make excellent fluke bait. As a kid I luv cathing'um with a cane pole on Sakkonett pT.
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10-04-2011, 04:13 PM
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if you learn to speak their language, you are a cunerlinguist.
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10-04-2011, 06:41 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
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I thought a choggie was a fat chinese girl.
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10-05-2011, 05:01 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by numbskull
I thought a choggie was a fat chinese girl.
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I thought that was a Chunk...... |
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