Nicknames for fish
Submitted by crasny1 on Fri, 2014-07-11 11:03
Over the yrs we have a few nicknames rather than the real names for certain fish hitting the deck.
Some we used Coral trout - Supreme, Red emporor - redjoy, Barracouda - axehandle, Spanish mack - razorback, Tuna other than YFT - torps, YFT - shashimi, Flathead lizard, NW blowie - master key or boltcutter, Chinaman -tractor. Blowies - Popper
Obviously some others but thought I would start few a few from our boat.
Im sure there are some funny one.
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sammy85
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Marlin- stickface dependin
Marlin- stickface dependin how many beers some times stickface motherfu#%er
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crasny1
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GT
Bus, Golden Trevor - Mick jagger, or just Jagger, big cod - hemminway (after the old man of the sea), Gardie - ministicky, Tailor -gaf (get away fingers), SandWhiting - chippy, KGW slapper, YFW dog (after ol yella), Harlie - scary or clown. Sambo - shit puller, Salmon - Kawai after NZ term, Skippy and smaller versions of all trevally -piggies because they grunt.
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choorles
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rays
any time we know we have a stingray on we have a battle to see how many famous 'Rays' we can name
eg ray mysterio, ray romano, ray charles .....
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Rey mysterio rules !
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uncle
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chinaman was always galloper
mahi mahi- dollys wahoo- doctor who, n/w blowies list is too long!
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
Dale
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Fish
Billy Lids for squid, Bernie Naylors for Tailor, and also underwater bolt cutters for NWB's. Probably plenty more out there.
Cheers
Dale
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Devo1965
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Baldies
Bald chin groper = Bullshits (first few trips to steep point in the 1990's we caught heaps and didn't know what they were, so tossed them back as a shit fish). Marlin = Beaky. Garfish = Up side down beaky. Flathead = Frog.
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Tradewind
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This season I seem to have
This season I seem to have caught more Stingrays offshore than keeper fish, and they continue to aggrovate my rotator cuff (Caught some Very big models this year)
Also there's the disappointment from what looked like a good hookup
So i've renamed them to The C*&ts of the sea.
Leemo
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I have caught more bloody
I have caught more bloody stinkin' c%#t boltcutters than anything else this season. shits me off as most of them are big and fight like dhuies. Had one of my last Haoli F2's chomped almost in half by 2 in one day
bludgin' since 94'
brg
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Any type of wrasse We call
Any type of wrasse We call Penis fish.Usually are f##ken penis .
crasny1
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Wrasse we cah harash(ment)
everyone uses Dhu Lolly for Sgt Baker's
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uncle
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wrasses etc
Charlie courts
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
beau
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Salami
Salami
Swompa
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Tampons?
Tampons?
shalesy
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Date Joined: 25/10/12
Dhu's - Snakes
Dhu's - Snakes
dumper
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Date Joined: 03/04/08
Sharks, nor west blowies,
Sharks, nor west blowies, trigger fish, catfish all get called the same thing = effin c's
Swompa
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Up in Broome a few years back
Up in Broome a few years back (when I still had an ability to catch nice fish), I was catching plenty of these pesky shit fish that I was throwing back. They turned out to be Mangrove Jack.
I was wondering why people wanted photos of these big shit fish....
crasny1
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One of my fishing mates
cals dhu's "gobbleguts on steroid"
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shonky
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Sambos
Another f#$kin sambo
This habit is getting expensive!
maxxeman
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POOFTER FISH = Queen Snapper
POOFTER FISH = Queen Snapper
C.P
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Anything with long Spines
"Dont Touch Me Fish"
crezz
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when were going for tailor or
when were going for tailor or mulloway and hook a ray its instantly called "stinkray"
optimont
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nicknames for fish
Marcia hines cod.
pale ale
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Diddly for squidBilly for
Diddly for squid
Billy for rays (Cyrus)
Bessies for barra
tampon for tarpon
mudsuckers for carp
Freddie for threadfin salmon
Bob (Marley) for marlin
Jacky jacky for mangrove jacks
peter for pelicans
and... Danny for a bird called a plover :)
Doooma
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And one that comes swimming
And one that comes swimming around at dawn......
"The Blind Mullet!!!"
jamey ford
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Crocodiles for really big
Crocodiles for really big jewies .
Far Quirk!
frog.hicks
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Breaksea cod = Black ass
Breaksea cod = Black ass
Stevef
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Rock Cod (Wrasse) are always
Rock Cod (Wrasse) are always Cock Rods on our boat........ One of the kids called them this when they were little and it has just stuck.
Stinkrays is another one from a kid's mispronunciation
roberta
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Hahahahah
My late husbands worse words for a shark were, as he put it to sleep, die you f....kin a.....hole and worse swear words, as the sinker hit his shins while trying to put the shark to sleep.
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tim-o
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LOL
LOL
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chris raff
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LOL +1 , there's a few
LOL +1 , there's a few variations for sharks but they typically start with f....kin . Double whammy with the sinkers though lol ...
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Buffalo bream (Silver drummer)
Shitty bream, Sweep neighbours fish.
Old fishermen never die they just smell that way.
Willlo
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Dhuie - stripey eyeQueen
Dhuie - stripey eye
Queen Snapper - handbag
Tailor - choppa
KG - Georgie
Sambo/stingray - Sh@t fish among others depends on the day
Call Sign - BZ785
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bradzino
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Spango's
old favourite the spangled Emperor....very west orstralian mate
Beard_Slob
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Our fish naming terminology:
Mulloway = Slob, Sluzzoway. Tailor = C*ntlor. Herring = C*ntring. Mullet = C*ntlet .... you get the idea
wagoewanderer
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PID
No please elaborate.. hehe
Doooma
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Noah's Ark(shark)
Noah's Ark
(shark)
barneyboy
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It is amazing how different the names are from state to state
Lets start with Mulie here/pilcard-pillie elsewhere. Mulloway here/jewie elsewhere, spanish mackeral=mackies, yellowfin tuna=fin, tailor=choppers, golden snapper,goldies=fingermark bream, black jew=northern mulloway, bazza,s=barramundi, tricky snapper(NT)=grassy sweetlip(QLD)=something else here that I can't remember(WA).
It is a long long list.
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suggarman
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just a few
herring = hezzas
mulloway = croakers
dhufish = dhuies or dhu dhus
pink snapper = pinkies
sambos, amberjack & yellow tail kings = kingies
KGW = kidney slappers
breaksea cod = black ass
rays = vacume cleaner
bald chin = baldies
harliquin = rodney (long story)
any number or type of fish in the bucket = feed or coupple
trumpeter = soccar/footy balls
any small fish under 15cm = bait
have a good one
Plug
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marrabundi !!hezza
marrabundi !!
hezza
i need cheaper hobbies
sandbar
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Anything shit eating
is a Neighbour Fish, and if it's poisonus, Mother In Law Fish.
And +1 for the "Poofta Fish"! Haha
sandbar
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Anything shit eating
is a Neighbour Fish, and if it's poisonus, Mother In Law Fish.
And +1 for the "Poofta Fish"! Haha
Jackfrost80
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Butterfish - we call the
Butterfish - we call the angler 'Butterboy'
For any of you 90's ravers I call Yellowtail Grunter 'Billy Bunter'
Big crab - 'Barry'
Big whiting - 'horse'
Flathead - 'lizard'
Small bream - 'rat'
Big herring- 'bully'
Officially off the Pies bandwagon
Broome lad
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Black ass
Laugh my ass of when I was fishing up at Leeman with a mate recently when he caught a black ass soon as he saw it he said nice Jeffrey farmer .