In my on going effort to educate the fishing public to the "World According To Me" I thought a new dictionary of fishing jargon would be in order. Now mind you these terms and their definition are mostly from the boat and river bank of my forty plus years of fishing the rivers and lakes of the Pacific Northwest but a few are originals.
So with out any further delay here we go!
Dough ball - Fairly common term used to describe unlearned or dumb anglers.
Boat Whore - A fisherman who will do just about anything to secure an open seat on a boat during salmon and steelhead season
Pellet Head - A hatchery reared trout. Easy to catch and awful to eat.
Corkie Bite - Description of the action of a snagger who plunks his corkie and giant hook in the middle of a coastal salmon hole waiting for a salmon to bump into it so he can foul hook it.
Egg Whore - A bait angler that will do anything to secure fresh salmon roe. Fresh salmon roe in Tillamook county is almost as good as cash
Side Drifter, Boon Dogger or Bobber Dogger - An unskilled angler who doesn't have the courtesy, ethics or intelligence to reel up his gear while floating through the hole you are fishing.
Gut Slinger - Egg fisherman
Low Holer - Similar to a side drifter except this angler plants himself just below you in a hole. Sometimes your fishing partner will do this.
Dope on a Rope - Boat angler who anchors up in a river and watches his rod tip all day.
Limp Wristed, fly chucking, faggot - a term of endearment used by gut slingers and low holers to describe fly anglers. Been called this a few times myself but never to my face.....funny how that works.
Hatchery Truck Chaser - A fairly unskilled fly fisherman who follows the hatchery truck that is dumping pellet heads into a lake.
Arm chair fish biologist - Talks a lot of crap, using big words and offering ignorant solutions to our fisheries problem but is unwilling to commit any time to solving them.
Redd Stompers - Carelessly wading on top of salmon redds thus destroying them.Mostly fly fishermen do this during chum salmon season on the North Oregon coast.
Hero Shot - Pictures taken of every single fish an angler catches to show just how truly magnificent he/she truly is.
"Shitting" in Your Own Back Yard - Taking new people to productive fishing spots that not many people know about.
Please feel free to add to this list....tight lines everyone!
