Explain your name...

[ZapBranigan]

I was ice fishing a lot at the time I enrolled here. I was using those light Zapping things to charge my glo baits at the time. Still do. Also a big Simpsons fan but the characters were over used so I went with Matt Gronings other less succesful show Futurama and picked up on Zapp Brannigan a leader who became famous for beating the Kill bots by throwing wave after wave of men at them until they went past their preprogrammed killing amounts and shut down. I don't know why that's funny but it is. So altered the spelling a bit and that's the result.

[V-12 Merlin]

If I'm not in a boat, I'm in an airplane, or want to be. One of my all-time favorite planes is one I haven't flown (yet) - the P-51 Mustang. The -B models and up had a British-designed Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, displaced something like 1760 cubic inches, had a two-stage supercharger, and put out slightly less than 1700hp, turning a 12-foot prop. The Brits used the same engine for their Spitfire and Hurricane fighters, and I think a bomber or two. It has a very memorable sound, one that people can pick out long before they see the plane.

Anyways, I'm a fairly "crappie" angler, and couldn't think of a good angling name, so I went with something I was more comfortable with.....

http://www.spitcrazy.com/spitsound.htm

[Fergus Mor McErc]

Fergus Mor McErc King of Scots of Dalriada.....my mother is into geneology and he's apparently some ancient grandfather of mine (on her side). He died in 501. He's regarded as the the first king of the Dal Riata, the people from which the Scottish kings are descended from.

[schweady]

Do a search for some old SNL clips where Alec Baldwin plays Pete Schweady, a guest on 'The Delicious Dish' NPR radio program. Pretty funny stuff. (Now featured in my updated avitar...)

[buzzsaw]

Ha Ha Schweady Balls!! That was such a funny skit!!

[gorrilla]

The Gorr part is my last name and the rest, is evident if we've met.

[southerner]

V-12, that spitfire motor sounds BAD A-S!!

"Southerner" simply seemed right at the time. I moved to MN a few years ago from Savannah, GA. Although I don't get it as often now as in years past, it's still a regular occurrence at work or elsewhere when someone will ask where I'm from. I usually tell them "Duluth". Sometimes they actually believe me.

[Perchnonice]

Perching on ice. Or maybe it just seems like thats all I catch.

[Bobby Bass]

Southerner that is pro-nounced "Da-Luth"

[Animal]

The alias that I use on some other fishing related pages was already taken when I registered. Animal was the first name that came to mind. So Animal I am.

[M.T. Bucket]

I'm not a very good ice fisherman. God knows I get out enough to catch some fish, but more often than I'd like to admit, I come home with an empty bucket.

I'm able to get out more in the winter but I'd prefer open water fishing ANY day.

[nytelyter]

welll not fishing related but it breaks down as nyte-lyter or night lighter i used to do commercial fireworks displays and i light the night with big breaks of beautiful fireworks

[icehousebob]

My preferred name,Uncle Bob, was taken. So, since I spend a bunch of time in fish houses and at the time my favorite beer was Ice House, and I don't like to capitalize, I became-----icehousebob

[wild_instigator]

I've been a MN Wild season ticket holder since day one. I get pretty rowdy at the games and heckle the opposing players a lot when they visit the sin-bin. So, I self-proclaimed my nickname on-line to be wild_instigator.

[MossBoss95]

Well my last name is Moss and in highschool they called me moss boss and the 95 is because of my 95 Bass Tracker.

[fishercat]

Well... This is the same ID I use on my ATV club HSOforum So seeing I love to fish and I ride an Arctic Cat I thought FisherCat was a natural progression.

[Dan Thiem]

Fishercat, I would think it would be Bill or Ted.

[Neiko]

I go away for a week and a guy steals my Avatar.

As for Neiko it was the name of my wolf-hybred I had.

[Mr. Pike1]

I have a Lund Mr. Pike boat. The 1 was added as there already was a Mr. Pike at the time I became a member.

[skunked_once]

I almost had to change mine. Took the boat out one last time on Friday and only caught one sinking little northern. In the about eight years I've had my boat, I've only been "skunked once". The most expensive equipment and fishing skill will never replace "dumb luck".

[HoleHopper]

Used to turnamant fish for Eyes and never could stick to one spot too long. I am still paying for the decitions I made in my 20's. Probably will, for the rest of my life!

[carlcmc]

Carlcmc

carl=first name

cmc=initials

Used first 15 years ago when we got a tandy 1000 ex as our first computer. Wow, that sounds old already. I'm 29.

My second most common nickname online is Martineister (middle name is martin)

[luckey]

Well, some people say I'm always "lucky" (I prefer to think I'm just good, lol) and being "lucky" was not available, I misspelled it "luckey".

[Bushwacker]

My Grandpa named his hunting shack up in Blackduck, MN, Alex and Jane's Bushwacker- There is actually a big sign out front that says that. My Grandpa died three years ago now after falling out of a tree stand bow hunting and Bushwacker is kind of a tribute to him. Now I am part owner of the property and there are 8 of us that go every year for deer opener and for fishing opener, plus about 15 weekends in between and we call ourselves the Bushwackers. One of the guys owns a bar so now we are acumulating a lot of custom printed "Bushwackers" promo gear.

[Kab Dreamin]

My favorite place in the entire world is Lake Kabetogama so when I'm not working, I'm Kab Dreamin.