[Fishing Friend]

I would like to clear something up...

My entire life about this time of the year into early fall I have had to hear guys start talking about a particular fish. Everywhere in the world this fish is called "BonitO". But as this species of tunas swims off the New York/Long Island area it is referred to as "BonitA".

This is not slamming any Brooklyn/N.Y. accents as I have one myself

But can someone please prove me wrong...?? Because I notice that people even type the word "bonitA... To my knowledge there is only bonito.

This post edited by Fishing Friend 08:18 PM 08/21/2008

 

[jpd]

Honestly, I thought you were talking about the Coney Island Whitefish...

 

[canyonfvr]

jpd wrote:
Honestly, I thought you were talking about the Coney Island Whitefish...

LMAO.........You beat me too it

 

[Aquarius]

jpd wrote:
Honestly, I thought you were talking about the Coney Island Whitefish...

I thought the exact same thing.

OK, what about "balogna" vs. "baloney"?

 

[jpd]

canyonfvr wrote:

LMAO.........You beat me too it

How the **** did that happen???

 

[canyonfvr]

jpd wrote:
canyonfvr wrote:

LMAO.........You beat me too it

How the **** did that happen???

I left my post and went to get a beer

 

[gverb1219]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bonita (Spanish and Portuguese for "beautiful") is the name of:

Bonita Magazine, an international men's magazine
An Open-Source workflow engine

Places in the United States
Bonita, California
Bonita, Louisiana
Bonita Falls, a set of waterfalls in California
Bonita Springs, Florida

See also
Bonito

== == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == ==

Bonito may refer to:

Bonito, the name given to various species of fish of the genus sarda

Bonito flakes, flakes of the fish used in Japanese cuisine

Bonito, Italy, a small town of the province of Avellino in Campania, southern Italy
Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, a municipality in Brazil
Bonito (album), a 2003 album by Jarabe de Palo

See also
Bonita

..........hope that cleared it up..........

 

[Gaucho]

canyonfvr wrote:
jpd wrote:
Honestly, I thought you were talking about the Coney Island Whitefish...

LMAO.........You beat me too it

Oh I thought it was Needlefish

 

[FredyFluke]

canyonfvr wrote:
jpd wrote:
Honestly, I thought you were talking about the Coney Island Whitefish...

LMAO.........You beat me too it

Actually first one I thought of was sheepshead, but then I thought nah...and thought the same thing you guys did.

We're all demented.

 

[psycopanhead]

i knew what it wasnt,,,,,a keeper sized fluke..lol.........the coney island whitefish is a good guess but i was out with a friend fishing near the channel off coney island and we had a ocean sunfish swim right past the boat....the thing was huge....our brooklyn waters are getting very clean compared to years ago....

 

[AZFISHKILLER]

We just call em Bones out west.

 

[Warwickfishman]

jpd wrote:
Honestly, I thought you were talking about the Coney Island Whitefish...

My thoughts as well...

 

[dawnpatrol136]

psycopanhead wrote:
i knew what it wasnt,,,,,a keeper sized fluke..lol.........the coney island whitefish is a good guess but i was out with a friend fishing near the channel off coney island and we had a ocean sunfish swim right past the boat....the thing was huge....our brooklyn waters are getting very clean compared to years ago....

yes they are Scott. A very good thing. Even Jbay and the Hudson look cleaner. I hear there's even baitfish in the Gowanus Canal now. Unbelievable considering 20-30yrs ago

 

[Roccus7]

I always referred to it as a Coney Island Jellyfish...

And years later, when I saw one "in the wild," the name was even more approriate.

One morning at first light I was surfcasting in PJ Harbor and out of the corner of my eye, I saw a pulsating "jellyfish" swinging down current to my position. Once it got right in front of me, and the light had improved, I realized that this pulsating mass was not from the Phylum Cnidaria (Jellyfish), but from Phylum Trojanaria

Nearly bust my gut laughing...

This post edited by Roccus7 09:41 AM 08/22/2008

 

[Rodwinder]

jpd wrote:
Honestly, I thought you were talking about the Coney Island Whitefish...

yup

 

[likeitreallyis]

dawnpatrol136 wrote:
psycopanhead wrote:
i knew what it wasnt,,,,,a keeper sized fluke..lol.........the coney island whitefish is a good guess but i was out with a friend fishing near the channel off coney island and we had a ocean sunfish swim right past the boat....the thing was huge....our brooklyn waters are getting very clean compared to years ago....

yes they are Scott. A very good thing. Even Jbay and the Hudson look cleaner. I hear there's even baitfish in the Gowanus Canal now. Unbelievable considering 20-30yrs ago

Yeah those enviro-whackos

 

[dawnpatrol136]

likeitreallyis wrote:
dawnpatrol136 wrote:
psycopanhead wrote:
i knew what it wasnt,,,,,a keeper sized fluke..lol.........the coney island whitefish is a good guess but i was out with a friend fishing near the channel off coney island and we had a ocean sunfish swim right past the boat....the thing was huge....our brooklyn waters are getting very clean compared to years ago....

yes they are Scott. A very good thing. Even Jbay and the Hudson look cleaner. I hear there's even baitfish in the Gowanus Canal now. Unbelievable considering 20-30yrs ago

Yeah those enviro-whackos

Bob...I prefer Green Nazis...

you are becoming quite the comedian lately, LIRI

Now we just need to get you an image editing program. The man has potential

 

[reelfisher]

Was thinking Coney Isalnd whitefish myself lol

Needlefish would be a close second that I never thought of lol


I ahve no idea where when they started calling bonito bonita

Especially the Green Bonitas but those are found further east on the Island lol

 

[Fishing Friend]

Maybe the Long Island Italians were right after all..

..and that bonita is a better name for the fish. Bonita is Spanish for "pretty". And a live bonito sure is pretty. Emerald green, a silvery belly, large eyes, and tiger stripes..looks like nature couldn't make up her mind whether to make a mackerel or tuna so it has the body of a tuna and the head of a mackerel.

It is interesting how society changes the names of certain things and people don't question the new word because it is so widely used.

Cool fish and his cousin the skipjack that has saved many a day offshore. Fat alberts I don't like...unless you like an excellent fall shark bait or a trolling strip for your lures