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Post by **steve-hamilton** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 2:09 pm

roller = typical great lake/big water wave...no white cap on it...fairly safe...

breaker = white capped wave...more dangerous.

boards = "off the boards" meaning a fish off the plainer board.

longlining = running a few hundred feet behind the boat, without any weight, just the lure.

'teenager' = referring to a smaller, 13-19 pound salmon.

i've learned those only in the last year or so...

Post by **wolfe** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 3:35 pm

"Snot rockets"!!

Or then there's "Hammer Handles" for those thin, mediocre pike.

"Bronzies" or "Bronzebacks" for smallmouths is something you might hear; "Bucketmouth" for largies; and "marble eyes" or just plain "eyes" for walleye. (Or pickerel, right Rex?)

When you start thinking, there are a lot of slang terms we use.

W.

Post by **Markus** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 3:44 pm

The entire fishing vocabulary is nearly slang!

Post by **Northern King** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 3:44 pm

Another one is "hammerhandles" = small skinny pike

Post by **Northern King** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 3:47 pm

Opps I guess someone already covered that one.
I've heard people call brook trout: red trout, brookies, specs, specled trout.
Lake trout = lakers,grey trout
Rainbow trout = bows

They are all just short forms pretty much.

Post by **Cyber** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 3:58 pm

Wolfe: I've never heard of a pitifully small fish being called a "dink", (I personally have some much more profane terms for them), I have heard the analogy expressed as "Double-Income, No-Kids" for couples who happen to fall into that category.

Post by **tylercurt** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:18 pm

Originally from northern N.B. as well I know a few slang terms, like "Tinker" for the small Mackerel and a few more for saltwater fish. I myself just moved here last year from Halifax and caught my first bass in the summer with my kids, so a few of the names I keep hearing have me asking what they are as well .Not that were hicks from the East Coast but we don't have the lake fishing that there is here, mostly good Salmon rivers home, again thanks for the info as well.
Tylercurt

Post by **saskie** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 6:44 am

tylercurt wrote:Originally from northern N.B. as well I know a few slang terms, like "Tinker" for the small Mackerel and a few more for saltwater fish. I myself just moved here last year from Halifax and caught my first bass in the summer with my kids, so a few of the names I keep hearing have me asking what they are as well .Not that were hicks from the East Coast but we don't have the lake fishing that there is here, mostly good Salmon rivers home, again thanks for the info as well.
Tylercurt

There's actually decent smallie fishing right in Halifax in Rocky Lake. We moved here from Hfx 2 years ago! Look out you Upper Canadians - the east coast is taking over (with western assistance, of course)

Post by **BigSim** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:15 pm

Steelhead is a name given to rainbow trout which live in the Great lakes, generally. That one's caught me a few times.

BigSim

Post by **Legend** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 4:51 pm

Here's a few...

Woolies - Freshwater Drum, Sheepshead

Nook, King - Chinook Salmon

Spawn - Fish eggs, Roe

Legend

Post by **Bobber** » Tue May 03, 2005 11:53 pm

Hey, I think we might be on to something here. It could turn into something that would be useful to all anglers everywhere. Like an Angling Dictionary or Thesaurus or something. I'd like to keep this going while I think of what we can do with it.

hmmmmmmmm

Wed May 04, 2005 12:06 am

These are what me and my buddies use as slang words:

Lagemotuh Bass: Big pig, Hawg , lunker
Pike: Snake , Raptor, Hammer handle , Gator
Walleye: Pickeral , an Eye

we came up with calling pike raptors because of the head resmblence and the all out aggressiveness of the fish itself not many ppl use this.

Corey

Post by **wolfe** » Wed May 04, 2005 7:56 am

Here are two that I had never heard until I became a Hawk Talker and which I think are quite clever:

Hard water: ice covered body of water

Soft water: open water

Also:

Deep hooked: when a fish takes a hook down past its mouth, perhaps into its gills or gut.

I would like to see some of the trout guys/girls post some terminology here on trout fishing. Like what exactly is a riffle -- is it the water in front or behind of the rock in current? etc...

W.

Post by **GreenBastard** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:16 am

things that kills me is even in our ontario region i hear names of fish i can't firgure out:

drun, burbot, ling, silverbass, shad, i am not too familiar with these.

things like

large mouth bass= bucket mouth, green bass
small mouth bass= smallie
sheephead
bull heads, channel=black cats
rock bass
sun fish
blue gills
pumpkin seed (much difference from suns?)
perch
walleye
pickeral
speckles=specks, brookies(?)
rainbow trout=bows, steelhead (from lakes)
browns

now for equipment i am figuring out "pins" i believe very similiar to a fly reel
sonar-depth finder fish finder
tiller? no idea
transom mount?

Post by **BBRich** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:24 am

drun, burbot, ling, silverbass, shad, i am not too familiar with these.

Drum = Sheephead

Burbot/Ling = Freshwater Cod

Silver Bass = White Bass

Shad.. well that's a baitfish common in the great lakes.

tiller? no idea
transom mount?

Tiller = A motor that you control with a handle at the back of the boat (i.e. no steering wheel)

Transom Mount = Mounts on the back of the boat

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