This should be a good one,

What is the story behind your board name?

There is a story behind mine, how about yours?

I got mine from my favorite trout lure from when I was growing up...

Panther Martin's were my go to's. Many memories of fishing with my Dad tossin pmartins with ultra lite set ups....

Boy.....it's been so long, I guess I forgot.

In that case I want to change my name to...

Mr. B. Foxxx

Mine comes from my fishing in the saltwater a lot. So you have a story, what is the story behind yours minibear?
Paul

I like to Scuba Dive.

My name is Steve Ng (pronounced ING) and I live to fish......Therefore I am the FishNg1.

Steve Ng

I love fishing the all stretches of the Skykomish.....when I should be at work

My name is from days in the military, I used to work with bomb detection dogs,

so k9 and my initials!!!!

good idea....Grandpa is mine because I have 3 daughters and a brand new grandson....He's still too little to fish but has been in grandpa's boat once so far. I got him a Tasmanian Devil life jacket and he will be getting a fishing rod for Christmas.

havnfun outdoors and fishing

For some strange reason, people started calling me BillyBob. My birth name is William Joseph, so actually I'm a BillyJoe. I think that BillyBob must roll off the tongue easier.

I knew a old fishermen who used Duck In The Fog as a name for his boat. It took me a long time to get the secondery meaning by changeing the D and The F around . He passed so I have his name now.

Because they do! M Go Blue!!!!

My initials because I have no imagination.

Mines because I live in boring Port Townsend but I LOVE fishing.

I should make mine The Okanogan Fishing Nut seeing thats where I am from LOL!!!!!

My folks gave it to me.............

because I like to kill bull elk

Used to be on a Mini 14 forum as well

Lead Thrower works for fishing and guns

Thought of changing Lead Thrower to my given name Dave Dahl as there is less explaining to do in emails. The A.K.A Leadthrower thing gets old.

Mine comes from my college days. Studied Japanese for a while. It is a very loose translation of "the Bear"

Kuma=Bear
De=very loose preposition of "The"

Used it because I love(d) to hunt bears.

Name came from playing baseball for so many years. Its shot for Erndoggy. Plus I was a D.O.G in those younger years, woof, woof .

I spent a LOT of time coaching and supporting my boys on the baseball field. My youngest one seemed to slap the ball around the diamond and hence became Slaps, from there out popped Papaslaps, Even made bats for Slaps' college career , Slap Stiks of course.

however , back when that girl with the Bud in her thong was the popular post Papa 's lap was cool

Mine is too obscure to 'splain. I will anyway!!

Think Jeff, then change the ff with the other f sound (ph = f) and mix it with freak, you get the point.
Stupid, but mine, and somewhat original... And how many jeff's are there online with email names *jeff*@??? etc?

To be different is the short answer!

It's what I named my boat because it's what I do with my boat.

I just have a hard time catching salmon, its my first year and i have alot to learn.

'This is my boat's name, Six of Five, I have 5 children and my 19' Arima. A bit of Trekkie (TNG) in the name. Most don't get it but that's half the fun.

Mine was given to me by my parents for unknown reasons. I didn't come up with anything clever because I was in a hurry to sign up and get some info and just never got around to changing it. I also like that if you see me out there, you already know my name and can call me that. Now, as for boat names I'm thinking I'll name mine "The Other Woman" or "The Mistress" since most weekends I am with her other than my wife. Wifey doesn't think those are very clever, however. I'll keep thinking on that one......

I dont know about you but sometimes my boat is more maintenance than my wife! Couldn't imagine having 21

This would be my boat name (Finaddict)
Just a fishing addict
and a little word play. :p

Wooley worm is a fly that is seldom used in Western Washington any more. Yet, when I learned to fish, it was almost always on my line.

So basically, it shows that I am a fly fisher that has been around the sport for a few years.

While I don't exclusively fly fish, it is my first love, and I still want to be sucessfully exclusive with salmon and steelhead. I am an exclusive fly fisher for trout.

...fished with my father-in-law and learned how to salmon fish from him and whenever it get slow on the salts, he'd reach in the bag and get a LAAAAARGE herring, cutplug it, throw it on and pull up a monster of a fish. I'm a believer and preach the same to my kids.

Robert

WW, the woolly worm has been eclipsed by the woolly bugger, my go-to fly. But I still carry a few woolly worms too in my trout fly box. My handle came from a colleague at work due to my propensity to talk about fishing and all the smoked salmon I'd brought in. One day he just started calling me salmonbelly and kept it up, so that's what I started calling my boat.

Because I spend a LOT more time questing for slabs than I do actually boating slabs.

And being on a "quest" sounds a little more noble than just going fishing.

I named my 15' aluminum boat Slab Quest.

My SeaSport has a different name...

For me it started on a steelhead fishing trip to Georgian bay in Ontario. I have always had a little more downtime than most people but, since I was so pumped to fish it made matters worse. Anything that could cause downtime happened to me in great amounts. Towards the end of the trip my freinds just started to call me downtime, and the name has stuck with me ever since .

My first post to the board was on a sleds-vs.-the-world thread. Anyone want to wager which side of the debate I was on?

It was used IN SPITE OF, not in any way because of, the Star Wars flicks.

Now that I'm fishing more from a drift boat, I'm considering other options.

Wife thinks it refers to something else...doesn't know it's really about catchin' steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) !

I fished with the same group all through college up until a few years ago. We would skip school for weeks at a time and head out fishing. Idaho, Wa, BC, Oregon rivers lakes etc. so we spent a lot of time fishing together. I started fishing when I was 4 in the Sky. It was in the mid 80's after back to back trips. I filled the boat on a 3 day float in Idaho with big trout. One other guy caught a couple of small ones, two rafts 8 guys. A week later we were in BC off the West side of Vancouver Island. I filled the boat again with Springers and Coho. One king went 62lbs. After that they just started calling me The King when we fished or hunted.

I'm Wade. My folks have called me Wader since I was small.

After camping for a week during salmon season at Cottonwood campground on the Hoh you can imagine how bad you start to smell. Im sure all you hunters can say nothing smells worse than a wet bear fresh out of hibernation

it's for my affinity of the snaggletoothed fish that tend to show up in the rivers in november

i made the name up in 1999 when i found nwfishing.com, and used to start huge flame wars there about snagging/indians/poaching. some of you might remember the old me, i'm not as much like that any more...

I'm a fishing junky. I'm addicted to the slime and smell of the fish, the pull of the fish, and the long waiting preiods. Also I was 15 when first joined the board.

What a nice post

Isn't it cool to see us all get along

Where di garcia and bob come from?

It was the stupidist thing I could come up with. It will be my Indian name when my tribe gets approved so I can net rivers.

COHO COHO COHO,,, I love Coho from CQ to the Sno. I cant get enough. Of course kings, Steelies and many more are all i think about but with a freezer full of Coho, Elk and deer i could live forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

COHO

Well, I tried fishing out of Westport 4 times on charter boats - each time trying different methods to avoid sea sickness - and nothing worked. I don't have a boat of my own. Also, I grew up going lake fishing with my dad in a canoe, and although it only flipped once, it came close a lot - especially when he would lean over the side to take a leak. Basically, I like the shore as it is drier, there is less of a chance of puking, it's cheaper, and a lot less of a hassle. But, hey, if anyone has an extra seat and you're headed out on something other than huge swells, let me know.

--Bank Angler

I'm really an ANGEL but I like to chase fish

Many years ago my dad was a BIG guy and his CB handle while out on the salt was fishbelly. I have loved and admired that man for 29 years for teaching me the joys of fishing. We fish together faithfully still today and I consider it a honor to follow in his shoes as #2.

All the good "hair" names were already taken.


OK, It's just the least offensive of all my nicknames. I do a great harelip after a few drinks. And I used the alternative spelling to be sensitive, for the benifit of the people with the actual phisical afliction. Yeah, right. I was drinking when I registered and spelled it wrong. You happy now. Well,you get what you paid for! :p

Well, hopefully mine speaks for itself....

Named my big sled that when I was guiding cause I had a client that would return each year, and the second year he brought a friend and introduced me to that friend as "Christof, the master caster"....
I do a real good job of tossing things to specific spots with my trusty rod and levelwind.......

MC

The name kinda says it all...!

It started about 12 years ago when I left rifle hunting. It started as a way of getting away from the crowd, then it grew into an addiction!!

It has change my life and my families.

Bow hunting has been and continues to be an education... ever step in the woods, every arrow I balance, every time I choose to pass up a shot because it is just not right... every day!

I love the sport... it is me!

Texas because that is where I was born & Fling for two reasons. One- Because I had one & two that's what I do with a rod.

Thanks for all the replies...This has been one of the most interesting topics in awhile.

Keep em coming...

It's one of my favorite cuuthroat flies, and now the name of my boat, which is where a salmon can come and stay, anytime.

At the time , my boat was named "escape pod". I'm thinking of naming the new boat "escape pod II", since my old boat still has the name on it.

Before I decided to start my last business, I had to save some money, and figure out a way to get some cash, so I purchased 2 private camping lots.
I stayed at each lot for 6 mos, and all my friends started calling me Woodsy Wayne.


WW

Lotsa people used to call me Tall Paul or Jeep Man, or Mr. Jeeper...etc..

I am almost 6'6" and one of my Jeeps has 'bout 10" of lift....

"Wow, there goes a tall Jeeper"......lol

I always try an incorporate Jeep into most of my lifestyle, clothes, gear, converstation

If you see me out and about, I almost ALWAYS have some sort of Jeep clothing on....HAHAAAAhaA

P.S. I have met a coupla really nice guys on here who have helped nuture and educate me about learning Washington waters. You guys know who you are, sincerely, thank you from the bottom of my heart! (SE, DR)

Talljeeper, over and out

P.S.S. Too bad Jeep doesnt make some cool fishin gear, the closest I can get is an Orvis Special Grand Cherokee.....

It's something I have not been able to get out of my mind (ever since a friend took me to the sky and got me hooked up with my first steelhead thank you )

Knowing that a steelhead of a lifetime might be in the next drift will forever keep me Bank Walking........

I'll have to agree on the TallJeeper. Paul is pretty tall and I have met him several times and each time he shows up in a different Jeep vehicle. I think he is on a personal quest to own every type ever made all at one time.

I'm just glad he isn't TallYugoer........but the water proof boots thing at Hoodsport still gives me and Val a good chuckle now and then!

This has to be the best NFR thread yet!

My passion for fishing began when I was about 5 years old fishing for cutthroat in the Deschutes River. I eventually graduated to steelhead fishing. Hence, fromcutthroattosteelies...

With a last name of Gustafson my nick was out of necessity

'Cause at the time, I thought 137Salt might sound a little dorky!

Chose my moniker because I dream of catching a big 'Nook, and I dream of getting a little nookie

I guess it's safe to assume that you're a married man also ND!

Ak = Alaska
Kings = Mature chinook salmon

Nothing I would rather fish for-No other place I would rather fish for them

And it was the first thing to come to mind 3 yrs ago when I registered

Ya got me pegged, 4Salt. That might also explain why I haven't gotten many opportunities to catch that big 'Nook!

The name was given to me by my fishing buddies when my beard and hair got a little long and wooly. There was a SLIGHT resemblance to the dead one. I was a hippie when younger but never a deadhead.

I'm a junior "Bob" named 35 years ago by Ma and Pa.

I figured since it was "my board" and I needed some to know it was me for sure ... I'd simply be Bob

On the few other boards I post on, I'm steeliebob ... me and my fave fish

Thanks for the board BOb as it is one of the most entertaining sites ever!

Piper... Its what I do for a living... run pipe...

On a side note:
In the mechanical engineering field there is an term for the volume of hot air moving thru a section of ductwork... that term is "Cubic Feet per Minute" or otherwise abreviated "CFM"

Hopefully this will shed a little light on a certain persons nickname on this board.

Sorry Cowlitz I couldn't resist...

A fishing buddy of mine always asks me if I'm "down for pound." Of course, I'm always down to go pound fish. I thought it might be a pretty cool nickname.

Tab as in Tabasco and Fry as in frying hot...Can't find any food so hot I won't eat it...Love the stuff

I used to be fishingking99@hotmail.com. When I was caught posting copyrighted material on the internet and simultaneously got a broad band account, I has since been known as
fishingking00@comcast.net

Fishingking00 is slightly related to my compulsive and irresponsibe behavior I exhbit when I have a fishing trip on my brain.

There used to be a board member called 'Hey Y'all (who has disappeared) -- anyway he called all 'lurkers' damned buzzards!!' So when I registered I was going to use 'ol buzzard' -- but my wife and Reiter Rat said it was too degrading...... Consequently I picked an innocuous little creature that lives in creeks and streams --'The Perriwinkle, (well it is original).. As a kid I used to pick them off rock, peel off the rock shell and use them for trout bait..

Me too Peri, and they worked great!

Mine is from the fact that I'm part Norsky. My grandfather was a full blooded Norsky who took me fishing when I was a kid. Lot's of fond memories

I have been told I smell like FishGuts or sometimes people would just point at my shirt or pants and say "Gross, FishGuts" . Thats too hard to type so I just shortened it.

Because, I live to be fishing on the river!

Interesting question for a fishing board but here it is....Mine is easy....rwgav8...rwg..my initials, richard william gregory, and as for the av8.....av8=aviate. I am a pilot also.

lupo- short for a phobia that i suffer from...
luposlipaphobia: the fear of being chased by timber wolves while wearing wool socks on a freshly waxed floor

I got my name because for 4 years I used to be the president of the Friends of the Cowlitz (FOC). Everybody locally used to refer to me as "Mr. Cowlitz", so the name "Cowlitzfisherman" just seemed like the appropriate name to use here.
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Side note back to "Piper':

That's OK Piper! Here's the other side of that "side note" that you had made. I guess that there are always two ways that you can look at things! You said;

Or….
You could look at this way:

Hot air passing thru pipes is very often called "STEAM"; being an old pipe fitter as you are, you should know that when you screw around with "STEAM"; most often you will end up getting burned really bad

But thinking about board names, such as "Piper" reminded me of my school days when we went to our music classes. We used to call that wimpy looking kid that was always blowing all that "hot air" into that little hollow tube with all those holes in it a "piper" too. Are you sure we didn't go to the same school piper? jk

And then again…the dictionary defines "piper" as; a person who plays a on a pipe; a bagpiper…(big bag of air ) to pay for one's pleasures or bear the consequences of one's actions. Are you sure you're not a bagpiper...Piper? jk

So maybe we should start calling you BP from now on!

Sorry piper, I just couldn't resist it either


Cowlitzfisherman

It is my favorite reel to float fish with

Speaking of Music class... I tried to play the Guitar once... But they kicked out of Music class for cracking it over the head of the wimpy looking kid tooting his own horn... What instrument was it that you said you played?

He he, he

You kill me CFM...

C'mon, you guys know the only people in School band that were'nt dweeby geeks were the drummers. Without the image boost you geeks got from the drummers, you would all have been much worse off.


Hairlipangler (Drummer).

All School band members were just jock wannabees... Especially Drummers...

:p

So, woodwind or brass?

That's right your strings, oooooh.

Thats right... First string...

Power Forward
Tight End
Left field

Piper

Glad to see you didn't take it the wrong way either!

I was a "very great" singer in our school ban….well at least that's the way I remember it

It sounds like hairlip isn't missing a beat either

Cowlitzfisherman

I figure my moniker speaks for itself.

I've had many people tell me throughout my life that I look like Kurt Russell(Snake Pliskin). No, I don't wear an eye patch. On my fantasy football website, I use Snake Pliskin, too. By the way, I'm the defending champion and a division leader this year. If I could only get the coho to bite like I pick my team.......

They call me "Dances With Fish" but you can call me Dances for short. I got it because thats what I do Dances with the fish that is with them on the end of my line
So if you see me on the river dont be shy
Dances out

I used to be Sea Lemon, cause I have a yellow boat, that's kind of a beater (but a fish catching machine). That moniker didn't exactly fit, or roll off the tongue, so I just registered under a new name.

Coho Ho, because I will do anything to catch salmon.

I love fishin' and I'm an electrician.