Don't know why but after all this time on here I've only just noticed Sandy's cracking thread on fishing terms and immediately a few of my own popped into my head.
Now as many of you will know my head's not the same as other yins heads
(It's no easy being me you know, not everyone could do it
) and as I didn't want to pollute Sandy's bit I thought I could share a few of them here and hopefully get a few new ones back in return........................................
So in no particular order;
!. Rodbender: A trophy troot which is a wild brown trout that has reached or exceeded 3lbs in weight
2. Notable Fish: A troot between 2lbs and Rodbender qualification
3. Good Troot: Yins in the 1lb to 2lb range
4. Basket Troots: Everything else of eight inches and above size always very welcome but not feckin Rod Benders
5. Feckin Bandies: Very wee troots
6. Proper Fishin: Chasing wild brown trouts throughout wild places often in the most remote waters with stunning scenery
7. Puddle Bashin: Going to a fishery
8. Fishing Dries: The cream of wild troot fishin and those who partake often call it 'On the Dries' as opposed to those who like to think they're in the know who will say 'Using the Dry Fly.'
9. Tubin / Usin the Bag: Reference to float tube fishing
10. Finnin: The correct term for float tube propulsion and not paddling
11. Salmon: Migratory Vermin
12. Broken: Que tales of Rod Benders lost, almost always a lie (except when it's me)
13. Never Caught Anything But It Was A Good Day: Lie
14. Caught Loads? Depends on angler but potentially a lie, Caught Loads on a Peter Ross is definitely a lie.
15, Bamboo: Naw it's Scotland so it's cane ya dobber
16. Point Fly: Scotland its feckin Tail Flee, how many time do I have to tell ye and if you read it in one of my scripts it's the feckin editors fault. And it's no feckin Top Dropper cause yer still in Scotland so it's feckin Bob Flee ok? Ditto on the editor BTW
17. Cast: Scotland again so this is yer leader not what you've just done badly and put everything down for 200 yards
18, Gut: Noy what I've grown over the Christmas (very successfully I hasten to add
) but another Scottish term this time relating to your 'cast' material (ie nylon, floro horse hair, spiders web silk, pubes from a goat whatever)
19, Short Line: What yer actually doin when workin a traditional team on a loch correctly, not the actual length of yer fly line
20, Long Line: What yer dain wrong
21. Fishng was Hard: What you say when you were crap
22> Fishing was good: What you say when you were paying attention
23. Fishing was Shite: Self explanatory for trout / way of describing Salmon Fishing
24. Fishmonger: Prick who kills troots and should seriously consider golf instead
25. Excellent Angler: Angler who practices C&R
26. Apris Fish: Whisky time
27. Apris Fish Fanny: Someone who attends a Gethering and bring blended whisky or worse vodka or even even worse something else or horrors of horrors and a sure way of getting ex-communicated nothing at all, not even cheese n biscuits
28. Mountain: Scotland again means proper hill over 3000 feet, in Wales it just means hill
29. Back Cast: Something you catch the trees with
30. Lunch: Something those that canne fish properly do (Salmon anglers do it a lot when back in the hut tellin lies)
Ok enough from me, over to you guys.
PS Some of these are for fun, some are for real
