The Cryptic Code

Fishing Slang.
By Troy Creasy

So you are coming to fish the Big Lake O this year. Well before you can fish, you need to know the proper fishing lingo. Listening to the VHF radio can be frustrating if you are clueless to what is being said.
Well here is your chance to become part of the inner circle. With help from a few deviants that I know, we concocted a list of Lake and Stream jargon that is sure to have you scratching your head. So without any more delays, here you go.
The A List!
Bulgie: A Lake Ontario Brown Trout.
Spot-Tailed Speed Trout: Steelhead
Forked Tail Darter: Lake Trout
Forkie Frontier: referring to any deep water lake trout habitat.
Mudshark; aka Mud Marlin: Lake Ontario Chinook Salmon.
Screamer: Hard fighting fish that makes the drag sing.
Power Mutant: A clueless person at the wheel of a boat.
Brown Water: Water created from a river outflow or waves crashing the shoreline.
Skinny Water: Water too shallow for boats to navigate.
Locked Up: I hooked a fish.
Doubled up: Fighting two fish at the same time.
Double Spanked: Losing two fish at the same time.
Toad: A giant fish.
Bundy: Any trout over 15 pounds. (If you want to annoy your fellow angler, advise him that you just landed Bundy)!
Poor Man's Permit: Sheepshead. ( Baaaaaaaahhhhhhh).
Chromer: A bright silver fish.
Boogered: Foul hooked fish.
Buggy Whip: A Fly rod.
Hunchback: A fly Fisherman.
Bobber Boy: Float Fisherman
Spinhead: Someone who is fishing with a spinning rod.
Goat Boy: Someone fishing on the wrong side of the creek or casting down from the high cliffs and bank.
Dragger: Drift fisherman.
Creeps, Goons, or Mutants: persons who hunt down and snag fish, break the law, litters, or just plain doesn't respect our wonderful fishery.
X-Ray Vision: polarized sunglasses (Devo pervies).
Wet Waders; aka waders by Levi: Wading without boots.
No-See-Um: Black Sponge.
Bean: Jensen Egg
Boat Monkey: An overworked & underpaid first mate.
Transom Troll: See Above.