Fishing Phrases

[DShock]

Right now I am watching the TV Show "North To Alaska", with Larry Csonka, and I have heard many fishing words, like "Big Fish!"
I am not going to repeat every word they said. I want to hear from you what your favorite exclamations are?
Doug

[ducksterman]

Used to go with a guide whose standard reply to ...

How's fishin...was

"About average".

[Ronnie Z]

Right now I am watching the TV Show "North To Alaska", with Larry Csonka, and I have heard many fishing words, like "Big Fish!"
I am not going to repeat every word they said. I want to hear from you what your favorite exclamations are?
Doug

Great show to watch. As far as a favorite saying goes ill go with "nice fish"

[fcch]

"We don't measure brook trout in inches, we measure 'em in pounds"
(as I explained to some visitors at the registration desk on our homewaters).

[J Castwell]

Aw jeeze,,, nice home page. Way to go fcch!

[grumps]

My wife noticed that most of the time when a large fish was caught and presented to the camera the anglers usually talked long and hard about its size and weight. On the other hand when a very small fish was brought to net, all they could come up with was "purty little fish!"

grumps

[rainbowchaser]

I seem way to partial to "long distance release". I've about wore that phrase out.

[Uncle Jesse]

I met Csonka at the Reno airport several years ago, just a year or so after he took over the TV show from Buktus. I was standing in a line of 2 people when he walked up and dumped a couple of duffel bags. I turned around looked at him and knew I should know who he was, but it didn't come immediately. I turned back around and ask "Are you Dick Buktus?"

He replied "Diplomacy isn't your long suite is it?" He turned out to be a pretty nice guy, I remembered that he had his last training camp in my home town just south of Memphis. Playing for the Memphis Grizzlies, USFL.

[tigfly]

Two that I've heard a guide use: "window shopper" when you get a refusal and "couldn't wrap his arms around it" when they're too small to take the fly down.
Glenn

[shorthaul]

reminds me of last year---a tarpon that tilts up and studies the fly but refuses---"A LEANER"