Explain your name...

[Try Too Fish]

Being self employed I'm always weighing the work i need to do against the fishing i want to do! SO i ended up always trying to find time to fish! It gets easer as you get older!!

[Grant]

it could be said I wasn't feeling terribly creative when I signed up...

but truth be told since the early days of the commerically available "online services" (back in the AOL/Prodigy/Compuserve days) I've mostly just used my first name.

Keeping it Simple,

Grant

[sparcebag]

Say it once! does it remind you of your fishin partner?

[federline]

Well, it's my name. Yes, same name as K-Fed. No, no relation - I hope! -Jim

[Wellesy]

Mine is a extension of my last name from my college/fraternity days at UND...people around just naturally came to call me that. It was almost jdubs as that's what Dad and family call me alot.

[bgmny]

Mine is short for Big Money. It comes from the saying from a certain lumberyard I worked at in high school, "Save big money at ......."

[Sandmannd]

The sandman in my name comes from a short movie I made when my band and I were on the road. Just a fun film called, of course, Sandman where I played a creapy dead guy that hacked up the groupies that followed us around. The nd part is cause I'm from North Dakota.

[StCroixNewB]

I think mine is self-explanatory - just moved to Hudson, just started fishing... I guess at some point, I'll no longer be a NewBee but I still have a long way to go to get to that point!

[Meat-Run]

"Meat-Run"

Well I stold this one from a room mate of mine in college. We called him Meat-Run because he didn't believe in catch n release and was always filling up his bucket. So started calling him meat run because he was always out for the "meat" and not just for the sport of it.

mr

[CrappieAttitude]

I have to say I stole this one as well. I saw a t-shirt once with a crappie on it and it said I have a crappie attitude. I thought that it was pretty funny, and I feel that the name fits, because I predominately fish for craps. So I guess I do have a CrappieAttitude. Plus my initials are CA.

[Dances with Walleye]

Mine is kind of an intersting story... I didn't get hardcore into fishing until the spring of 2000. (Long story about a broken home and no Dad to teach me how to fish blah-blah-blah.)

One day I just decided that I was going to be a fisherman... Bought some tackle and a rod, and just started tossing hours at the water.

I started out only being able to shore fish along the banks of the Mississippi and Sauk River.

In those days I was just targeting whatever would bite my hook/lure...

One fine Memorial Weekend Saturday I went out to this stretch where a resevoir lake poured into a river... There was a long stretch of rip-rap which had a cement shoreline about 100 yards long...

My Buddy and I got there, I walked up and found a 5 of diamonds spoon... I clicked the spoon onto my swivel, and cast out... First cast... Got a big hit... Reeled it up after a titanic fight, to find a 20 inch walleye!

Boy did we celebrate!

So I kept him... Problem was, he was WAY to big for the bucket I brought. And I didn't want him to die on the shore line with what was planned to be an 8 hour day ahead of me.

A little creative thinking later, and I tied him onto this long 12 foot stringer I had in my tacklebox... But there was no where to tie the fish to... So I tied him to the long stringer and tied it to my ankle and put him back in the water.

I spent all day working that concrete topped rip rap... With a magnificent 20" Walleye tied to my ankle. Not a bite the whole rest of the day!

I spent the day with him... Even named him "Buttons"... Jet Skiers would come by and razz us, and I would pull him in... Eventually he even figured out that it was better to move with me, than it was to be dragged by the face whenever I walked... But if something spooked him, he would bolt the other direction, and I would have to step awkwardly to keep from tripping on the stringer rope.

That night we went back to my place for a couple of beers and to eat "Buttons"... Boy I tell you, after a day with a Walleye strapped to your leg, and naming it... You get a kind of respect for it that makes it almost impossible to clean and eat him...

Note... I said Almost...

My Alcoholic Uncle was in town and popped in for a visit and to have a few too many...

He gets drunk and tells the story about how we've all got a little Lakota Sioux in us, from the days when my great-whatever-grandfather was a trapper and took a Lakota wife.

The next day my buddy and I went back to the same stretch of Rip-Rap... I clicked that same five of diamonds onto my swivel... On the second cast... BOOM... another Walleye... This time 17.5 inches...

Same Problem... Doesn't fit in the bucket...

So I tied him to my ankle, and named him Sprinkles. Because "In Death a member of Project Walleye has a name!"

-Fight Club Rip-off.

Same thing... Spent the rest of the day skunked... Though my buddy caught a crappie near me, and as he reeled it up the Crappie saw the walleye and bolted... Walleye freaked as well for some reason, and bolted the other way, nearly tripping me mid step... I stumbled over a jut in the rip rap, and had to do some "Fancy Steppin" to keep from tumbling into the water...

My Buddy breaks out laughing, and says "Your Indian Name should be Dances with Walleye."

***

From that point on my Walleye Obsession began... I skipped right over that bass obsession that most rookie anglers go through...

Flash forward 7 years, and I own a boat, keep a scientific, and storytelling journal recording data, patterns, walleye year classes, stocking reports, and toss anywhere from 250 to 400 hours a year at the water.

[Down Deep]

Down Deep - That's my pat answer when some one asks me where the fish are.

[Bjjams]

Big Johnny Jams

[Born2Fish]

Like the name says, I was Born To Fish...or was it I was born to a family of walleye? Either way my life is fishing and fishing is my life.

[Tyler Holm]

It was either this or T-Bone, Holmer, or Holmslice, but I decided to leave the nicknames at bay.

[Can'tFishEnuf]

Exactly as my name implies, I just can't find enough time to fish. With family and work it's hard to find the time. You could also take it as, there is no such thing as fishing too much.

[eyewarrior]

mainly fish for walleyes out of my warrior thusly eyewarrior. Now I see there is an eye[space}warrior on the site. Oh well, I am getting a ranger boat this year so I'll probably change it to eyeranger anyway. Either way both have a double meaning.

[MuskieSlayer]

I have the user name of EyeSlayer on some other forums that I joined many years ago when I targeted walleyes. Then one day a cheesehead friend of mine convinced me to target muskie instead of eyes on Mille Lacs. All it took was one explosion on a Jackpot and I've never looked back. The Slayer is just a carryover from the old name. CPR!!!

[vermilionfox]

Vermilion for my favorite lake. Fox, my last name. Also a play on words vermilion (red) fox.

[Water Hazard]

When I bought my boat this past summer, I kept trying to come up with a good name for it. I even searched around on the internet looking for a good name.

I came across Water Hazard and with my interests in golf and fishing thought it was a good combination.

I bounced the idea off of my wife and family and didn't get a lot of positive reinforcement, so I chose it as a username instead.

I still haven't officially picked a name for the boat, but I am leaning towards Fish On.

[BigWadeS]

hmmm....well I'm 6'5" and got up to 340, and my name is Wade and my last name starts with an S..thus the BigWadeS

[UdeLakeTom]

Used to live on dude Lake....I've fished under the Pierbridge

....have you ever fished at dude?????

[gilby]

I have had mine since my school days. short for Gilbertson.

[kaz2611]

the nickname kaz was put on me by softball teammates after carl (yaz)stremski from the boston red sox since my first name is also karl 2611 came from jersey numbers i wore

[united jigsticker]

I live in the USA...and uh...well I never use jigsticks, so I gues I better flush this name.

Actually, it was the furthest thing away from Pro Crappie Guide in "Webster's Collegiate Guide to Picking a Good Name"