Lets go the opposite route of "Todd" & his is it just me? post. What are some of your best nicknames/slang. Example, fish club (for bonking hatchery fish only) = the priest. The pyramid anchor on the back of a drift boat = the hook. Your buddy coming back on a major hook-set with nothing to show for it = the air bite. Bring it on!

Premature-ejerkulation: You moochers Know what I am talking about.

Hawk Stick: Club used for bonking brats

Drone: Cigarette smoking, expressionless faced, run stompin, fish whackin, rude, eastern block snaggers

Cooned em: Succesful Trip

One Hook Otis: The guy who walks out in the center of the run and kicks the bottom to free his hook from a snag. Perhaps the next time he fishes, he will bring more than one hook

Candy: Bobs egg recipe with a minor alteration, tied in mesh bags (8 eggs or less)

Tyra Banks: Orvis Models (wannabees) that parade the river in their over priced duds like fishing fashion models on a runway

Westy Gig and Rig: All of the little tips I have picked up for thumpin fish from the guys I fished with in Washington. it drives these gusy nuts around here.

Stix and Twigs: Float rods and floats

United Nations Hole: Great fish run, where every country in the world is represented

Prophet and his Disciples: Term I use to refer to Bob, and all of the guys that post fishing tips and info on this board.

Setting a Pick --Anchoring the drift boat

Pinner---Small hatchery fish

Just a couple

Cracker... and I dont mean the saltines

we've all fished with one

How about...

Wood Shampoo: applying the bonk to a brat with a chunk of stove wood.

Bumper Boats: Similar to bumper cars at the fair, only on the Hoh in March and April.

Yahoo: another term for "cracker"

I remembered another one:

When I lived in Santa Barbara and we used live sardines/anchovies for Calico Bass, when you missed a strike and lost your bait, we called it "farmin' 'em". I suppose that meant we were fattening them up for next time.

They also had wierd names for fish down there, the same fish we have here. They called rockfish "sugar bass". I think that was because they made really good bait for other fish, especially because they were mainly pretty small. At least they didn't call them sea bass like crackers do around here.

Some of the pier fishers called the leopard sharks "tiger sharks". Even if I didn't have a degree in marine bio., I think that's a pretty easy distinction to make, and not a mistake you want to make if you happen to surf in the South Pacific anywhere!

They called cabezon "lingcod", and also called lingcod "lingcod", but somehow never confused themselves over which was which. They did, however, confuse me.

They like to call dogfish "sand sharks", which is fine with me, as lots of folks around here call them that. However, they maintained that dogfish and sand sharks were two different things, and that sand sharks were preferable for catching and eating. I never saw them catch what they called a dogfish, but I saw many dogfish caught and called sand sharks, then taken home to eat.

Barracuda were called 'gators, which I like, but I think that names already taken for pike and muskies and gars, isn't it?

Todd

Todd,

Wood shampoo......I love it!!

If you don't mind, I'd like to use it.

Fish on......

ankle biter - Smolt

Orvy - Person that looked like they stepped out of an orvis catalog

Captian Flog - a guy that takes 2 million casts off the same rock without moving

bubba - Snagger

Captain Flog = Reiter Rat ??????????

Captain Cranky = Bob before his 62oz coffee in the morning

Captain Cryonics = Bob in Soldotna after 28 double trips in a row

Okay, fair's fair Kent

How 'bout some more:

"crackers" in guide language refers to ALL private traffic ... this is in fun now, so no nasty emails!

bank maggots

pukers = private boats on the salt

farmers, farmed fish = losing fish through screw-ups

home run = swinging too hard on a fish and busting it off

good 'uns = all pre-spawn fish

I love the word "bonk" as in "Yeah hit a nice brat yesterday?" "Did you bonk him?" "Ofcourse"

Bonk=Kill 'em

So now that ReiterRat is a 'Definate Keeper', does that mean I can bonk him?
...not to be confused with 'boink'



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Ryan S. Petzold
aka
Sparkey and/or Special

Bob Ubank - Bankie/Bank fisherman

Tub/bath tub - Driftboat

Jet pilot/fighter pilot - Sled operator

Wherehauser - casting to far on the other side of the river and getting snagged in a branch ten feet up on the bank.

Most of these fit Ryan, just kidding!!
but you forgot a couple:
Cross some eyes = hooking a fish.
Come to papa = netting the fish.
"Another hook please" = what I said to Bob all day on the "Duc".
duckhunter
Bass fishing= casting on the other side of the logs.

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Oh, so that is why we kept refering to Vic as the bass fisherman.




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Ryan S. Petzold
aka
Sparkey and/or Special

Heard a gentleman on the Kalama refer to nappy looking Kings as "Soreheads"

"released a veggie" means you dragged a stick or some such debris to shore

"rockfish" often take a fly on a sinktip...sometimes small rocks will hang onto the fly all the way to shore

"ass biters" refer to chum, in particular...

my type VI sinktip has been dubbed a "dredger"

have heard the term "launcher" when referring to small fish that are inadvertently sent airborne on the hookset (often over your shoulder)

have taken to calling probing deeper holes "spelunking"

"rubber duckie hatches" and "Gore-Tex hatches" often occur along the Skagit when the eagles show up

When talking to another fisherman, "prime water" is water you've never seen a fish come out of...lol

"sex snot" is what's left over once your eggs disintegrate

"gale force mends" are inevitable when fly fishing on windy days...

"padrow" is what I do to try to keep the canoe in one spot on a windy day using one hand for the paddle and one hand for the fly rod...

"snoopy" is any guy who shows up with an inadequately cheap spin fishing combo (after the ubiquitous Snoopy rods of kiddie-combo fame)

Thats Right
duckhunter

Parker and I have our own fishing language in which some of it is of our own creation while the rest is borrowed from respected guides and other good fisherman.

"The Hurt" - Pluggin'

"Worm" - Eggs(thanks Robbo )

"Bugs" - Sandshrimp

"Saukin' it to 'em" - Using my fist instead of the wood fish bonker (hatchery fish only...don't panic, guys)

"Flat-Buried" - When the plug rod goes down and stays down

"Tampons" - white dink floats

"Spawners" - Any fish that Parker catches

"Hoity Toities" - Nicely dressed flyfisherman with no clue

"Neophytes" - Fisherman that are so clueless they don't even deserve cracker status

"Pucker Factor" - Degree of difficulty given when navigating rapids

My all time favorite:
Release a boneless Brown trout = going #2