Crappie Fishing Hats

Crappie come with a pronunciation fight built in. Garden & Gun notes that some say it so it rhymes with happy and others so it rhymes with poppy, that the name traces back to the French crapet, and that the Cajuns of Louisiana sidestep the whole argument by calling the fish sac-a-lait. Merriam-Webster says happy; Oxford disagrees. The pun never stayed in the dictionary: HAVE A CRAPPIE DAY turns up on a funny fishing mesh trucker hat on Etsy, and IN A CRAPPIE MOOD on a TeePublic tank top. The fishing behind the jokes is its own subculture. Spider rigging means running six to eight rods across the bow of the boat. Anglers sink old Christmas trees on the bottom of the lake as brush piles, and fish use a sunk tree within 10 to 15 minutes, according to Bass Pro's boating blog. Weiss Lake in Centre, Alabama bills itself the Crappie Capital of the World, with 30,200 acres of water. These crappie fishing hats cover the badges (CRAPPIE FISHING, CRAPPIE ANGLER), the insider names (SLAB SLAYER, PAPERMOUTH) and the puns the whole market already sells. HAVE A CRAPPIE DAY and IN A CRAPPIE MOOD each get a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat, for anyone who has fished the brush pile and called it a crappie day.