Ten common fishing terms explained

[MuleShack]

Catch and Release - A conservation motion that happens most often right before the local Fish and Game officer pulls over a boat that has caught over it's limit.

Hook - (1) A curved piece of metal used to catch fish. (2) A clever advertisement to entice a fisherman to spend his live savings on a new rod and reel. (3) The punch administered by said fisherman's wife after he spends their life savings (see also, Right Hook, Left Hook).

Line - Something you give your co-workers when they ask on Monday how your fishing went the past weekend.

Lure - An object that is semi-enticing to fish, but will drive an angler into such a frenzy that he will charge his credit card to the limit before exiting the tackle shop.

Reel - A weighted object that causes a rod to sink quickly when dropped overboard.

Rod - An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.

School - A grouping in which fish are taught to avoid your $29.99 lures and hold out for spam instead.

Tackle - What your last catch did to you as you reeled him in, but just before he wrestled free and jumped back overboard.

Tackle Box - A box shaped alarmingly like your comprehensive first aid kit. Only a tackle box contains many sharp objects, so that when you reach in the wrong box blindly to get a Band Aid, you soon find that you need more than one.

Test - (1) The amount of strength a fishing line affords an angler when fighting fish in a specific weight range. (2) A measure of your creativity in blaming "that darn line" for once again losing the fish.

[Sandmannd]

That's funny right there Mule.

[Jim Almquist]

That really is some good stuff and for the most part true

[Windy City Walleye Hunter]

Funny Stuff Mule,

You forgot one:

Boat - An expensive vessel that you pour tens of thousands of dollars into over it's life span, can also be synonomous with Tackle Box - A square object that you throw thousands of dollars into.

LOL

Windy

[UdeLakeTom]

Only to have said tackle box spill all its contents all over the floor of forementioned boat causing the need to find the first aid kit after much profanity and trying to scoop the things back into the tackle box.

[MuleShack]

 Originally Posted By: dude Lake Tom

Only to have said tackle box spill all its contents all over the floor of forementioned boat causing the need to find the first aid kit after much profanity and trying to scoop the things back into the tackle box.

Been there and dont that!! Those little glow beads are the worst to pick up.