Fishing slang

Jennie@ifish · 05-03-2001, 06:11 AM

How bout slang fishing terms:
No matter what you are using for bait/lures, the term for it is a worm.
"Hand me another worm" referring to a herring/eggs/shrimp? I've heard this one alot.
"Get on the sticks" (the oars)
"Pick em up, we're moving" (Pull in your gear, pull the anchor...)
A fishing pole is a rod, stick, but NEVER a pole...
"Doughballs" People who fish the old fashioned way, with old eagle claw poles, and still catch more fish than we do!!!
"Bank Maggots, beach lice" Bank fishermen...(Who incidently also catch more fish than me, and I still love to bank fish too!)
"Run backs, darkies, blackies, downstreamers...what else?" Spawners..
"Chromers, shiners," Bright shiny fish that have just come in.
Do you have more?
We went through a list of them, one day in the boat and we came up with so many! Now I can't think of but a couple! Coffee! Need more coffee!
Let's have some fun with this one!
Jen

Krome Brite · 05-03-2001, 03:11 PM

Sea licers, snakes, ...

Phish_on · 05-03-2001, 03:29 PM

"quag" = any inanimate object hooked and landed - stick, old boot, etc.

"Looks like the biggest quag of the day, Jerry!"

boater · 05-03-2001, 03:34 PM

dink--- an undersized sturgeon

05-03-2001, 05:43 PM

Primitive - OC bank person who has NO knowledge of a net.

Caveman - OC bank person who has knowledge
of fire!

(notice the respect of person versus maggot)

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Salmonator · 05-03-2001, 05:55 PM

A leaveitright. Anything you hook but don't want. Usually sticks or clumps of moss. Sounds like the willamette is full of leaveitright's this year...

WheresMyBobber · 05-03-2001, 06:18 PM

"Bring out the Sure Strike"

"Sure Strike" was an herbal medicine that's now legal for some uses in Oregon. Back in the old days, we always kept a supply in the boat for those times when we felt pain.
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Rauly · 05-03-2001, 06:56 PM

RERUN- Fish brought down river by the hatchery people to run the river again, to give the SCISSOR BILLS another shot at catching them.

Rauly

birdhunter · 05-03-2001, 07:17 PM

squawdads - Northern Pikeminnow

metalheads - steelhead

river pigeons - merganzers (ie rats w/ wings)

fins and feathers - a drift trip for both fish and waterfowl

porkers, hogs - big fish (what I catch!)

peckers, buggers, suckers, chub - any trashy fish

digger - someone trying to row a driftboat upstream in heavy current

addy-back, nate - wild fish

addyless, heal-back, scar-back, club bait - hatchery fish

banana boat - a skunked boat

dupont spinners - dynamite

garbage mouth, dumpster w/ fins, mouth n' tail - bass

"I oughta frame that blip" - there is a big fish on the fish finder

purist - Anyone that doesn't like to fish w/ bait. Particularily fly fishermen.

Newbie, Thrasher, Rook - someone who obviously doesn't know what they are doing

Water whippers - fly fishermen

05-03-2001, 07:42 PM

Sure Bite! Same as Sure Strike above. LOL. I LOVE water whippers above. Gonna' have to remember that one. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

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HOGTIDE · 05-03-2001, 08:04 PM

Sliders - spawned steelhead

SockDozer - Huge, fat, hogshaped fish

Tubed - You hook a brightfish It takes off toward the ocean and does not return. You've just been _______.

Suckdraggin'- using your levelwind to release more line and prolong your drift at the end of the swing.

RocketMan - a jumpin' fish.

"Sport" - anyone who pays to go with a guide. Negative connotation. Canadian origin.

Gone Fishin · 05-03-2001, 08:19 PM

"Dope-on-a-rope"

Idiot anchored in a hole all day sitting on top of the fish!

Trick · 05-03-2001, 10:11 PM

"Smoker". a term that is used to make those tule snaggin', scab-back clubbin', cat-food eatin' people feel better about that black and slimy tule chinook that has blowfly eggs all over it from laying in the back of their 77' chevy half-ton on a 90 degree August day. [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]

Jennie@ifish · 05-04-2001, 05:53 AM

I love these! giggle!

Firedog · 05-04-2001, 09:45 AM

burners-spawners

fishchasers-the guys who have to be next to the boat that just caught a fish

dumba**-the guy who comes up and anchors in the middle of all of us backtrolling or trolling. Aslo used for mulitple other things on the water [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

dead fish-herring "hand me another dead fish"

crab and eggs- sand shrimp and eggs

swarp-hookset and miss

whiff-no explanation here [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

premature ejerkulation- set the hook to soon on a plug or bait bite

black bart-old dark buck

fish-rod down

FallRiverGuy · 05-04-2001, 10:11 AM

Cigar-an up river fish that is the color of
a cigar.

skainky-a cigar with fungus. As in "man did
you see that skainky old
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Sore mouth-when you hook a fish long enough
to feel a head shake before becoming
unbuttoned.

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Tanner · 05-04-2001, 12:03 PM

Snaggletooth - A spawner

Kick Me a hunka-chunka - Cut me off a wad of them eggs.

Bugs - Sandshrimp

Flippin Bugs - Fly fishing

Tinman · 05-04-2001, 12:38 PM

Boulder Bass....a line snagged on the bottom

Cling Cod.......a line snagged on the bottom

Grump...........a very large old fish of any species

Charmin Grouper...the floaters(ahem) and toilet paper from the head on a charter boat

Joe Schwab · 05-04-2001, 01:08 PM

Salmon chokers- gillnetters
Brown Trout- Those strange brown fish released by city of Portland occasionally when their rearing ponds get full.
Drag maggots,- egg draggers
Good rip! - nice hookset!
Chromer - any fish you catch
Dark fish - any fish the other guy catches
Keeper - any fish that still has fins attached

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Tanner · 05-04-2001, 02:30 PM

Limb Cod, Tree Bass or Fish sticks - a stick or branch.

F*%#'n Fish - I'm getting skunked. (Normally said three quarters of the way through your drift right before you bang a fish).

ClackaCrap - Fiberglass drift boat.

Blurp - What all bobber fisherman like to see.

Convicts - Snaggers (especially the Eagle Creek coho brand).

There he is!! (Said with lots of enthusiasm) - Fish On

Planet Fish - Hung up on the bottom of the river.

Bully Wugger - Wooly Bugger (Fly)

Largemouth Ass - My fishing partner.

boater · 05-04-2001, 02:50 PM

cracker--- a guy who just cant catch a fish.

Chris Sessions · 05-04-2001, 03:52 PM

Hung like a bull field mouse = snagged on the bottom.
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