Seigo Saito
Greg Hackney said that back home in Louisiana, they would call this 10-9 bass a "tree-shaker."
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In March, Greg Hackney pulled a very lively 10-pound, 9-ounce bass out of his weigh-in bag at the first Bassmaster Elite Series event of the 2012 season. "At home, we call this kind a tree-shaker," he said of the St. Johns River bass.
Clever, we thought. Sometimes anglers get caught in a rut saying just "hawg" or "lunker."
So we asked our B.A.S.S. Facebook fans what they call a big ol' bass when they see it. We got more than 1,600 comments! Here's what they said:
- pig, hoss, fatty
- beast, brute, monster
- sucker, giant, dandy
- sow cow
- moose, toad, mule
- whopper
- Sasquatch or Basssquatch
- chunk, chub, slob
- big nasty
- slaunch donkey (credited multiple times to Mark Zona)
- Godzilla, water zilla, hogzilla or Basszilla
- butterball
- football
- bucketmouth
- Rumpletoadskin (by Sv Rider)
- Hog Molly
- biggun'
- girl names: Nadine, Bertha, Mona, Jezebel
- boy names: Bubba, Tyrone, Ned
- big mama or big papa
- Frankenstein
- swamp donkey
- swamp gator
- grass monster
- Big Mac
- wildebeest
- Big Mama Jama
- hippopotobass
- slobber knocker
- chunky monkey
- pole bender
- behemoth
- hydrilla gorilla
- Jolly Green Giant
- Toad Choker
- humdinger
- Slabber Jabber
- Granddaddy
- whale
- log donkey
- moss monkey
- tank, truck, hemi
- Loch Ness Monster
- swamp jockey
- stump knocker
- hammer, bruiser, beefcake
- Boom Boom Pow
- heart attack
- wooly monster
- stud
- game changer
- freak neasty
- Donkey Kong
- Yeti
- T-Rex, Donkeysaurus Rex, Slobosaurus Rex, pteradactyl
- Shamu
- Bernice (1 to 5 pounds), Betty (6 to 9 pounds) and Basheeba (10 and up) -- courtesy of Scott Snow
What do you call a big bass? Post it in the comments below! And like us on the B.A.S.S. Facebook page to connect with anglers just like you — and to show off your very own Basheeba!
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