Standard Perch size terminology?

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[cool][#0000ff]I can understand your ranguage. But I have never really adopted the term "Jumbo". That's a midwesterner term. Also conjures up images of something with big ears and a trunk.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Dinkster: Deericulous. Suitable only for fishing whole...as minnows...where legal.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Bait size: 6" to 7". Ideal for turning into processed perch pieces (also PPP).[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Marginal: A fat 8".[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Creeper: (Keeper) 9" to 10".[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Underfooter: 10.5" to 11".[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Footlong: 12"[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Teen Incher: Bigger than a footlong.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Now those all sound pretty exacting. But when the action is hot the lines often become blurred and it is possible to misidentify by size. Thus, on a day when dinksterism is rampant a 9 inch fish may be jubilantly proclaimed as being a footlong, etc.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There is also the well known phenomenon of ice shrinkage. It is common to keep a bucket full of Creepers to Footlongs only to discover that they are all two to three inches shorter at the fillet board. I hate it when that happens.[/#0000ff]
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