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What is a mud cat?
Flathead Catfish = Pylodictis Olivaris = MUDCAT/YELLOW CAT/APPALOOSA/OPELOUSAS TO SOME |
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Called Gougeon (sp?) by many older Cajuns. Pronounced "Goo-Jean" with silent n, rhymes with cochon, French for pig. Don't ask what it means.
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It's a slang term used by people that don't know it's actually called a Bullhead. I have never heard anyone refer to a Flathead as a mudcat. Not saying it doesn't happen I've just never heard it.
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Common names can get confusing especially down here, everybody calls something by a different name referring to the same species.
a white perch in Louisiana isn't the same as a white perch in the north what people call a 'pin oak' here isn't a true pin oak, we don't have true pin oaks in La every brown snake in Louisiana is a 'ground rattler' Heard several times of people calling moles that dig in the yard 'salamanders'. They would ask how to get rid of salamanders and to me a salamander is an amphibian but they kept calling them that. Well it was just a bastardization of the phrase 'soil mounder'. (not sure what that last paragraph has to do with the subject or anything but anyway) |
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means when you catch a mudcat, feed it to the pigs
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bike
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google images for mudcat , first 5 catfish shown are a ops and a big blue, and a fine woman
https://www.google.com/search?q=mudc...w=1688&bih=771 |
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Thank you
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The last part jean or jonne i believe is French for orange or yellow. The gou jonne is usually followed by a cai for cat. My stepdad from mamou has always called then that. He also said that any mullet that calls a fine tasting catfish such as a flathead a mud cat is not very bright.
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And ops we call mashwarohn. Pronounced mosh wah don
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[QUOTE=Top Dawg;710222]I've always know Em as goujon also. Caille means spotted.[/QUOTE
Yeah you're right. Cat is Chat |
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This right here
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heard two sides of the argument for willow oaks as to why they are referred to as 'pin oaks', one is that the the leaf is long and pointed like a pin, the other is that these were the oaks that were found in the bottoms nearest the river, and the shipbuilders used this wood as the pins holding it together |
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is this for the bullhead?
have heard both flatheads called spotted cats and yellow cats also, man this is confusing cajun common names would be a good thread to start |
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Lol yea. Goujon for the mud cats/bullhead.
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only a couyon eat a goujon #awaitsanMGthreadaboutbullheadsecrets |
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You know it's comining
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