Completely unrelated to fishing - Your Username

[Regor]

Yes, the bite has been slow,,,, and I have been out there trying to increase the odds.

As I read all the threads and posts, I see some interesting names that I often wonder "What in the world does that mean". Some are self explanatory, but some .......

If your bored, reply back with your explanation :)

Mine:
It's 1991 and I'm logging onto a Bulletin Board via my 4800 Baud Modem (does anyone even remember what that is :) ), and it's the start of the need for a username/password.

Being very uncreative, I took my name and modified it:
"Gregory" dropping the 1st and last letter leaves me with "Regor".

And it's been my username online for 20 years now.

Greg (aka Regor)

[walrus]

Walrus,

Fat, slow, loves the water. He can't catch fish very well, but does pretty good with clams, mussels, and slow moving sea creatures.

Doesn't fish much in winter months, because that time is committed being on ice and snow enjoying the winter enviroment where few dare to tread.

[Fiskadoro]

As I read all the threads and posts, I see some interesting names that I often wonder "What in the world does that mean". Some are self explanatory, but some ....... If your bored, reply back with your explanation :)

A long time ago, back on the first day when I first got on the web I went right to a So. Cal. fishing message board that I found through a search engine and posted a local Redondo halibut report. It was back before logins or set message board usernames, and some guy who turned out to be one of the "board gurus" got bent out of shape because I was using the wrong gear in his opinion. Stren 17lb Fluorocarbon instead of his standard big game 30 pound mono, and he called me a liar and said I did not know anything about fishing the area I was talking about, and then accused me of being someone (another poster) who I was not.

Not to be deterred I said: "I'm Jim Day." "I know Redondo like the back of my hand, and I don't have to lie about who I am or what I catch on the internet just to get attention from some dumb f__ks who probably spend more time arguing online then fishing"... :D

To the Gurus credit he took it in stride, and later down the line we became friends and even fished together for halibut. (of course I out-fished him)

Oddly over a decade later I had a very similar experience which relates to how I got on the kayak boards. I posted my first real Kayak Halibut report with this Redondo Halibut ...http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/5756/decked15ci.jpg

On the boards I then frequented..You can actually still see the reports here...
http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/inshore-islands-fishing-reports-southern-california/46117-butt-fishing-yak.html

and here...
http://www.allcoast.com/discussion/ViewTopic.cfm?topic_ID=48187&page=1

Out of the forty odd replies to those post there was one negative one. Some guy, this time local internet "kayak board guru" got bent out of shape and actually signed up with a new account under a bogus name to slam me because I was using the wrong gear etc... (sound familiar?) ......and then demanded to know why I was posting kayak reports on a mainstream fishing boards rather then a kayak board.

Here's his actual post:
Filthy ..oar[/B]"]....Dont you think a flying gaff is more suited to marlin or threshers?seeme like a waste of time for a cal.halibut,no matter how big it is.ive caught 3halis over 40lbs and at least 6 over 30lbs,.. in my kayak,, and would not want to use a flying gaff,once i gaff it, i want the fish under control,no thanks,why arent you posting this under a kayak website?

At the time I did not even know about kayak boards, so I traced the guy back to one of them (I'm not going to name names) and reposted the report there just to piss him off, and in contrast to the Internet boat Guru1. Internet Kayak Guru2 and his buddies have been stirring up trouble for me on the kayak boards ever since.

I guess you could say some things change, some things never change, and some things once set in motion seem inevitably go where they go, and you can't do much about it.

At any rate I got stuck with my real name on the boards after that first day. In hindsight I just didn't know any better, and for better or worse I never felt the overwhelming need to change it since then:sifone:

So that's my story... Jim

[old_rookie]

old_rookie - I figured I'm probably older than most around here.... and I have not been fishing very long - a few times with dad when I was a kid... a few times as an adult - but just recently started 'investing' in it - so that's the rookie part - plus still learning from all of you.

I'm starting to think with the slow fishing and more posts 'off-topic' if the admins here should put up another Forum section for Off-Topic posts.

[Kaijuu]

I took the name, Kaijuu. It is a Japanese word for monster.

Its a shorter version of Kaibutstu, what I was called by the locals when I lived in Japan. I stand 6'2", 195 lbs, a bit taller than the average Japanese male back in the mid 70s'. Kai, short for either above mentioned names, my pups name, at 120 lbs and a bit psyco, he is truly a Monster.

[dsafety]

dsafety is a shortened version of my company name, Diamond Safety Concepts. The nickname might not make sense to anyone else but it is easy for me to remember. This is an important consideration for those of us who are AARP eligible.

Bob

[Iceman]

Back in '92 I bought a small ice company in El Cajon, ironically I moved here from North Dakota in the 80s to get away from the brutal cold and ended up spending a significant amount of time in walk in freezers. All day long at work I'd hear "The Iceman is here" or the never gets old "The Iceman Cometh" 17 years later I went from ice to polyethylene but Polyethylene Man just does not have the same ring to it. My first posts were on the PBers "Buddy Board" and www.yakfishing.com

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d151/Iceman619/Andybendo1copy2.jpg

[Ed]

Mom came up with mine. :D

[Hunters Pa]

My first-born's name is Hunter, hence Hunters Pa. Since then a daughter, Sierra, has been added but sticking with the original.

[Siebler]

Mom came up with mine. :D


We are the simple ones Ed.


Yep mine is not exciting either, just my last name.

Its become my standard on the boards however I have had several others including "Siebler Elf" (thanks to Drew) and Csueper Jeanyus (Thanks to Nate and other OEX crew plus the Hooters girls in Long Beach).

[taggermike]

At the time I registered for BWE I worked at the Hubbs white seabass hatchery. I did many things there but a big part of my job was tagging the juvanile WSB with coded wire tags prior to thier release. I think I tagged almost a million of the damn things, hence the taggermike

[robmandel]

no idea :D:D:D

[WahooUSMA]

Wahoo - Ultimate "bucket list" fish that has eluded me on every Cabo trip - USMA-The Long Grey Line - United States Military Academy - Therefore, BEAT NAVY!

[wiredantz]

Wiredantz was the name of my computer fixing company, I am more commonly known as Darknachos.


When i registered on the board i put Wiredantz instead of Darknachos because i still use my wiredantz e-mail.


My license plate on my car says D Nachos and it was just a name i thought about when i was playing Starwars Galaxies (an online playing game)

[mtnbykr2]

Wiredantz was the name of my computer fixing company, I am more commonly known as Darknachos.


When i registered on the board i put Wiredantz instead of Darknachos because i still use my wiredantz e-mail.


My license plate on my car says D Nachos and it was just a name i thought about when i was play Starwars Galaxies (an online playing game)
should be changed to "burnin paddle" or something like that the way you paddled off the cursed X Factor last weekend.
Mtnbykr2...been my email address for years, before the kayak obsession came over me I was riding cross country and downhill mountain bikes, I still have one bike that I cannot part with, don't ride that much anymore though, cause in my spare time I am OTW, whale watching,,,lol....b:reeling:

[Deamon]

Back in the day, I had it all down with the gear and a 20' Mako/150 Yamaha, hanging with my best friend slaying anything with gills. Two daughters came along, both playing big time club soccer and I told my buddy...dude, I think I'm done for a while. Hung the salt rods in the rafter, sold my half of the boat and then the float tube and now the yak have become my friend. Anywhere and everywhere looking for that quick fix. So the older daughter gets a damn nice soccer scholarship to Wake Forest...Deamon Deacons. Same guy tells me about this website...boom: Deamon. She's since transferred out of there.

I WILL ride the sleigh this year...

[driftwood]

driftwood.

It took me a whole year to learn how to land my kayak without flipping.
One afternoon, I flipped coming back from a long day of fishing.

I rolled down that big wave all the way to the sandy beach! A tourist saw me and said i looked like Driftwood washing up the beach.

[senojmj]

my name is Jeffrey M. JONES.
Start with the S in Jones and go backwards.
SENOJ M J= senojmj.
I love when people try to sound it out. Pretty much no one has that as a user name on any website and easy to remember, for me anyways. It is funny because I often wonder "how did they come up with that name?" Great idea for a post.

[Jimmyz123]

Yes, the bite has been slow,,,, and I have been out there trying to increase the odds.

As I read all the threads and posts, I see some interesting names that I often wonder "What in the world does that mean". Some are self explanatory, but some .......

If your bored, reply back with your explanation :)

Mine:
It's 1991 and I'm logging onto a Bulletin Board via my 4800 Baud Modem (does anyone even remember what that is :) ), and it's the start of the need for a username/password.

Being very uncreative, I took my name and modified it:
"Gregory" dropping the 1st and last letter leaves me with "Regor".

And it's been my username online for 20 years now.

Greg (aka Regor)

There use to be a Surf company called Jimmy Z and seeing how that is my name and the first initial of my last name people thought it was my company, which it was not, but I did wear and support the company. So I just stuck with that. the 123 part came with the early AOL chatroom days, most just call me JimmyZ and leave off the 123 part and that's perfectly fine.

[yakrider]

My real name is Josh Rider...
I always used to say...
If I ever have a boy...
his first name would be Motor...
middle name, Cycle...
last name....
well...it's just a good thing I had a daughter...
I guess the next best thing was for me to be Yak Rider...
I know...I'm a dork!

[RedSledTeam]

OK, OK. Mine is self explanatory (We're on a red outfitter), but my avatar may need some explanation. I'm a freediver from way, way back. I learned from a buddy named Carlos and I was part of a club called the LB Neptunes. I've taken my share of fish, but now it's time for me to give back to the sport by teaching my offspring to harvest fish from the ocean. They've been on diving trips with me but they're not ready for Freediving yet, but they are willing to kayak fish. This is my way of getting them closer to the water. Its only a matter of time until they will go over the side! :cool: :wsb::yt:

[Quilted Germ]

Quilted Germ - what's there to explain?

Used to play online chess with a buddy across the country. When I signed up, all the usernames i wanted were taken so the computer made a few suggestions.....couldn't pass it up.

[dorado50]

in response to yakrider(Josh), A few days before my brother's son was born we were fishing Cabo and really big into marlins. On the flight home, a day and a half before he was born, we named the kid... Marlin Chase...high fives between us until the wife found out! Got to at least keep the middle name"Chase".

[bus kid]

For my 15th birthday I bought a 1969 VW Bus. My dad made me drop the engine and completely rebuild it from the ground up. The next summer I got my drivers license, and got the motor in the bus, my dad handed me a empty gas can and dropped a $10.00 inside, told me when I get it out, I could walk to the gas station, fill the can, walk home fill up the bus and drive it. all around town all people kept saying was " nice bus kid". 30 years + of age now I just sold it for $20k but still have a bug. cant wait to give it to my son without the motor of course so he can start his own.

[StinkyMatt]

Well Matt is Matt

Stinky is the smell most often associated with my lack of fishing success!

[ful-rac]

Ful-rac is the shortend name of type of fishing I like to do....I love it when the fishing goes Full rack, which means wide open. I think the term comes from the racks that the old commercial tuna guys used to fish from years ago.

[tunaseeker]

I have not really done much salt water fishing, grew up in Big Bear hitting the trout in the summer and slopes in the winter, but dreamed of hooking up a large tuna. Some day that dream will come true... So there ya go..
<O:p</O:p
Tunaseeker...<O:p</O:p

[Hunter (The 80's Man)]

Hunter: Last name

The 80's man: Was in highschool from mid to late 80s... The 80s left such an impression in my life that I married the hot chick next door who was born in 1980 (he he he). Hence, "The 80s man"

[Pescavore1]

I eat everything I catch including greenback and spanish mackerel. Some would call it bait but I call it saba and aji…yummm. Actually, I can eat just about anything so Ominivore would have been more appropriate but Pescavore seemed more original.

[theluckypig]

my middle name is korean and sounds like the korean word for pig or pork... so some friends would call me "the pig"... it evolved from that to the translation of korean to english of a piggy bank... pok daegi = "lucky pig" dumb, but works for me...

[jorluivil]

Jorge
Luis
Villegas

Ergo jorluivil................:D

My AKA is my user name on Bloodydecks. I used to spend lots of time on that site (over 1500 post and counting) but when I bought my yak and sold my boat it all changed. Its a cool site but it caters more to the private boaters than the yakker.

[dgax65]

Douglas
Gaxiola
65 a random number that has nothing to do with when I was born

Gaxiola is a Basque name. In Euskara, the language of the Basque people, it means fat guy in a little boat.

[GregAndrew]

Got tired of having to put some numbers after "Greg" or "GregA" even to create usernames. And my last name is one of those "what the hell does that mean" things to start with. So I just used my middle name after my first name, and have not had a problem since.

[MrPatrick]

I've always been a practitioner of sarcastic and sardonic replies. 

[WahooUSMA]

Douglas
Gaxiola
65 a random number that has nothing to do with when I was born

Gaxiola is a Basque name. In Euskara, the language of the Basque people, it means fat guy in a little boat.

A yakking ETA! LOL. My dad is Basque.

[Quilted Germ]

Bus Kid - that's a great story. You're old man must be so old school.......

[lamb]

Love the photo Masta!

My came from hunting "lil' lamb". If it goes over a certain size (varies from species to species), it's not a fish - IT'S A LAMB!!! :)

Baaaaaah....

[GregAndrew]

Love the photo Masta!

My came from hunting "lil' lamb". If it goes over a certain size (varies from species to species), it's not a fish - IT'S A LAMB!!! :)

Baaaaaah....

So, would you consider the one you caught in Catalina a Fat Flat Lamb?:D

[maui jim]

Mine is from the glasses I wear for the past 17 years , and for the love of the islands and water. "no ka oi" :cool:

[bus kid]

Bus Kid - that's a great story. You're old man must be so old school.......

Yeah he has his ways, but in the long run it kinda backfired, now I build big motors that go fast...

[dorado50]

I'm bored...My favorite fish to catch and eat! Caught my first in mid 90's around 60#s and have three more over 50#s since. More times than not I will always bring home a dorado! Have yet to catch one from kayak,will try someday.

http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/6804/cabo08005ij0.jpg

[driftwood]

I'm bored...My favorite fish to catch and eat! Caught my first in mid 90's around 60#s and have three more over 50#s since. More times than not I will always bring home a dorado! Have yet to catch one from kayak,will try someday.

http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/6804/cabo08005ij0.jpg

That Dorado looks so dinosaurs!

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/06/28/article-1290272-0054013800000258-955_468x521.jpg

[lterrero]

OK, OK. Mine is self explanatory (We're on a red outfitter), but my avatar may need some explanation. I'm a freediver from way, way back. I learned from a buddy named Carlos and I was part of a club called the LB Neptunes. I've taken my share of fish, but now it's time for me to give back to the sport by teaching my offspring to harvest fish from the ocean. They've been on diving trips with me but they're not ready for Freediving yet, but they are willing to kayak fish. This is my way of getting them closer to the water. Its only a matter of time until they will go over the side! :cool: :wsb::yt:Oh... yeah, with Roman hook up to a 35 lbs YT & dad with the rudder that's why; I was there!! RedSledTeam:cool:

[RedSledTeam]

Yep! We're a team! Now if I can just get him to land one...:reeling::yt::proud:

[Useful Idiot]

Name of a song from my favorite band: TOOL

Amongst other reasons... LOL :D

[T Bone]

T-Bone...

My name is Travis and I like steak...

Nothing wrong with surf and turf...

WahooUSMC you will get yours.Personally I am still waiting to actually LAND a YT from the YAK.

To hoping we all get to check one off the bucket list this year...

[Fiskadoro]

....we were fishing Cabo and really big into marlins.....I'm bored...My favorite fish to catch and eat! Caught my first in mid 90's around 60#s and have three more over 50#s since. More times than not I will always bring home a dorado!....

http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/6804/cabo08005ij0.jpg

....theres nothing wrong with internet self promotion,we all do it, some just more subtle than others...

:biggrinjester:

[WahooUSMA]

T-Bone...



WahooUSMC you will get yours. Ahhh, I am a little slow....just caught that....LMAO

[Hypoxic1]

Used to fly in the Air Force. They put you in a high altitude chamber to demonstrate loss of oxygen at altitude. It sort of stuck from there.

Hypoxia :biggrinjester:

[Hobie-Pedaller]

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d151/Iceman619/Andybendo1copy2.jpg

not only does ICEMAN have one of the coolest names on any message board, he is definitely the MASTER of Photoshop as well !! :sifone:

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[Hobie-Pedaller]

i got my first Hobie Outback back in 2003, when not many people knew much about the pedal drive yaks. So i thought i would use my name to "educate" various board members about these awesome devices. - LOLOL

[onetriphudson]

Most of my friends call me Hudson and the nickname is from college. Around Y2K, I was helping a friend buy some furniture and he insisted it would take multiple trips to get it all home. I had faith in my little GMC Sonoma truck to carry it all and I did. He was impressed and grateful, so the name was born. As well, we lived in a second story place and after grocery shopping I'd load my arms with a ridiculous amount of bags, not wanting to make more than one trip. So there you go!

[JoeBeck]

I used to go by FishFinder which was not all that creative in the 1st place, I didn't have one then and prided myself on being able to find the fish without it :D. Really I was just broke and couldn't afford one, of course I regularly use a Fish Finder now.

Then I would be fishing and people would come up to me and ask me if I was FishFinder, with my heavy image post this came sort of regular people recognizing me on the water. Thought it was strange so I just changed my handle to my Shortened Name Joe (Joseph) Beck (short for a very long last name 1st 4 letters Beck).

[sealyin]

sealyin (pronounced Sea Lion). The name of our old cabin cruiser that had a silhouette of a CA sea lion on the stern but the word play was about "the big fish that got away"! Kept the name after the boat went away........one of the two happiest days in a boat owners life :D

[wade]

Completely related to fishing..

(my middle name..)
Jason "Wade" H.

it took a few years, & once my fishin' buddies found out my hidden middle name, they would only call me by my middle name from there on out...:p

[bigbarrels]

Bigbarrels:

One of my other passions in life is surfing and one of my favorite things about surfing is finding myself in a nice barrel (tube). I don't get many big barrels these days but I did grab a few small barrels last summer in the Mentawai Islands:) I'm rolling with 40 is the new 20 and hoping to find a bigbarrel in the near future



http://www.bigwatersedge.com/bwegallery/data/605/MG_04961.JPG

[Surfdad]

Epic backhand shack Bigbarrels! :cheers1:

I love to fish, but if the surf is firing i'm on it and I have 2 young groms so, surfdad just sounded right.

[The Kid]

I was the youngest to work at Turner's Outdoorsman in Kearny, started at 18. I was nicknamed Kid. After fishing all my life (literally) and becoming successful in the catching part of it and wanting some prestige settled on The Kid. Always will be too.

[BrokeLoser]

Umm, unfortunately I didn't have to get all that creative to come up with mine

[MrPatrick]

If you have to ask......... 

[skunked]

it's not because i smell... i don't think.

:)

it's my fishing skillz!

[Rusty]

Rusty was my nickname since birth. The name must have jinxed me cause I'm a little Rusty (sloppy, goofy and out there) at times, especially on the water at night when I get that "light" buzz going so I can sleep with balloons out, in those arctic conditions we've had lately. I'm also called Russell, Russ, and Russell Andrew is reserved for when my wife is on my case.

[Amish Ed]

When I was a deckhand out of Dana Wharf I had a big goatee, a big lifeguard hat and smoked a pipe. Late for work one day and the captain asked if my horse died. After a few minutes of looking blankly at him, he asked if I was Amish. I'm glad that name stuck because I was also Edward Wristbands and Special Ed.

[Zurc]

I got mine form one of my Marines on my first Deployment on ship. Zurc = Cruz my last name backwards. simple enough:)

[roadx]

my nic started from offroad desert riding and racing district 38 races. plus it's also part of my surname. it kind of applied to fishing so i kept it. keeping my nic also helped me refind friends that now kayak fish on this board. it's a small world :cheers1:

[ChefT]

Chef T ....

My nick name of 15+ years is Tugboat...
My occupation is a Chef
And my given names is Travis.....

So it all just kinda works out....:sifone:


Tomorrow......>>:yt::yt:

[xpresso2am]

I would drink espresso all day long and night even at 2am. I always had a cup of java or espresso on me

[pchen911]

pchen is for P. Chen

911 because I drove an ambulance for a living

[ctfphoto]

It is for my business name, ctfphoto.com

I am a high end professional nature photographer for more than 30 years, (check out my cute baby seal photos, ;) )

I bought the kayaks to have fun with the family and for photography.

THEN, I found out about Kayak Fishing, well I'm hooked :)

[WahooUSMA]

Shit...I don't even have a yak anymore and I still am addicted to this *&^%ing board!

[Kailolo]

I hope Kailolo means water- or ocean-crazy in Hawaiian! I was enamored with Hawaii after our first visit there many years ago. Got to order a new Hono wave decal for the yak.

[CheapPelican]

My first kayak was a Pelican Castaway. I bought it on the cheap and rigged it on the cheap. Now I could be called "CheapMalibu"

[Drake]

Its my last name :cool:

[Monovasia]

Moemvasia is a location in Greece on the Peloponnese where my family came from...on the ocean the area means "one way". I americanized it to Monovasia.

[TEAMFISH]

Simple, you know how you got "Team Yamaha", "Team Honda", "Team whatever.... I just used "Teamfish"

[Riskey Water]

Mine was an easy choice,My last name is Riskey and water is the place my soul belongs.Surfing ,freediving and kayak fishing .I have never hit the water for the sake of paddling ,the reward is catching fish .Living off the bounty of the ocean .Eat what you catch and feed those that don't !!! Long range kayaking is pure joy ,whether its off shore or covering coastline to the next camp site .Mi amore es la mares !!!

[Hamachijohn]

It is for my business name, ctfphoto.com



Wow! I checked out the website and your work is awesome! I'm an amateur hobbyist but love the art, and it's nice to come across a photographer/yakker.

HamachiJohn. My name is John, and I love hamachi. It's a very boring name and my wife thinks it's lame and that I should change it. In La Jolla, it may be even more boring with the abundance of YT, but up here in norcal, it's a name to be remembered by...

[Regor]

Bump

A lot of new members. Always curious to hear of their username origins :)

[speedydk]

I used to drive way too fast even did some autocrossing back in the day. For alot of years sport bikes were a passion of mine. I wanted something descriptive of my personality and wanted to have some personal identification with out anouncing my whole name all the time so speedy with my initials became it. So many years ago... Its certainly not because of my paddling speed thats sort of ironic. :rolleyes:Darren

[oneyedeer]

Mine originated from the joke:

"What do you call a deer with no eyes? No eye deer (No Idea) What do you call a deer without legs and no eyes? Still no eye deer ( Still no Idea)"

lots funnier when your drunk. So Back in my youngin days I always came up with get rich skims and it always failed. The name of my so called company was "oneyedeer" shorten from "one eye deer" because I believed all it takes to make is one idea. Lol many years later I found out you make money through hard work and a job. Well not that hard but a job is nice :)

[npdes]

Mine is boring. My real name is Tito and would get blocked from many sites because they thought it was a play on the obvious (mammary glands). Even with numbers added, it would get blocked. So I used NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System). I'm not a tree hugger or anything, it was just a program I had to implement at work. Nobody ever had it so I never had to add numbers or other symbols and 15 years laer, I still remember it (and still, nobody has it).

[Devildawgjj]

I am a former Marine. During WWII in the battle of Belleau Wood the Germans called us Teufelshunde..."Devil Dogs." A moniker that is accepted by calling out to other Marines.

There are so many "Devildogs," when I singed up for my e-mail account, I changed it to Devildawg, and bingo! JJ are my initals. Some people call me JJ.

In the Marines, they called me Buffalo Bill. I used to do this hilarious Buffalo Bill impersonation over the squadron radio, just to keep things frosty.:D Maintenance Control, was so uptight about it...:rolleyes:

PRECIOUS....."Put the lotion in the basket!"

[blitzburgh]

Born at Magees Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh in 1971. Believe me when I tell you, Stiller fans (Steelers for the Yinzers) are bred in those parts. Yoi!

[DanaPT]

I live 5 miles from Dana Point Harbor. I rarely travel outside a 10 mile radius from my home.

Not likely you'll see me fishing in LJ, NPH, or anywhere else.

I'm going to change that and try to explore new places. . . in 2014.

[Old Man in the Sea]

One of the first books I remember reading as a kid and it started my passion for fishing. I have mainly fished on sportfishing boats, long range, private charters, and pangas. But I just bought a PA and I am looking forward a new adventure and maybe being towed out to sea by a big marlin some day,,,Haha I realize will probably have to take it to east cape to improve my chances. My real name is Randy LaDue - have been writing fishing/hunting articles for San Diego Sports Magazine for about 5 years. The magazine and my trip pictures are here www.flickr.com/sdhuntfish/sets

[fishsouthcounty]

well my family moved us from Glendale to San Juan Capistrano when i was a year and a half...when i was 5 i won a saltwater spinning combo at the Indian Guides pancake breakfast. Used it for the first time ever on the Catalina Trip. Minus 3, the last 20 years i have spent fishing the waters of South Orange County...whether it be with Dana Wharf, from friends boats, or the piers, jettys and shore from crystal cove to trestles. The 3 years not spent here were spent in Monterey where i fished from the rocks from Monterey to Big Sur for great inshore rockfish, big cabezon and lingcods.

and so came fishsouthcounty.

[lowprofile]

I was respooling a lowprofile baitcaster and needed a screen name

[J3FFro]

My real name is Jeff and often times when I dont do my hair i have a fro.. soooo simple.. :D:D

[erinoo]

erinoo= first three letters of first and last name.. Eric Noonan

[Mr. Adventure]

uhhh.... I like adventure

[Deefeesha]

Not former Laker Derrick fisher, but "Thee Fisher." ;)

[silverbullet]

One of my other toys is a 25th (silver) anniversary Corvette... put a new motor in it, 6 spd (T-56), and rally car suspension... grey/charcoal paint with white leather interior and goes fast... = Silver Bullet

(definitely not the beer... I don't like to drink piss beer):cheers1:

[addicted2sp33d]

I like drink piss beer):cheers1:

Amazing the difference a few letters make...

I like racing... and I had to use both numbers and letters in my screen-name.

I'm not a drug addict. :)

[Hellboy1500]

I'm a Marine that is normally called Devil Dog, love watching Hellboy on TV and I have a Big Red dodge ram 1500 that has that ram head on it that kind of looks like Hellboy.

[Devildawgjj]

Thats an easy one,
When I was a lot younger, way before I met my wife, I lived on the big island of Hawaii and used to hunt wild pigs with dogs and bowie knives on a weekly basis, as Im sure most of you know the pig population is out of hand on the big island. I would be the one to usually kill the biggest pig out of our group of hunters, so on different hunting forums throughout the years I have always gone by Huntingthebigone. But I dont kill on land anymore, I just yak fish..
Adios,
Wesley

Translation:

I chose my name because of the endless nights of getting skunked looking for man-meat at Hamburger Mary's. I said to myself--self, let it be known to all that I am Huntingthebigone, and I will find you...where ever you are!

[Enceladus]

About 20 years ago I got a little hooked on a Diablo (computer game). When I signed up to play online, I had to come up with something warlike and all the cool names were taken. Enceladus is a giant in Greek mythology (turns out that he fled the battle and got crushed for it). Dumb name, that has nothing to do with fishing but I knew I'd remember it. Hmmmm, is there a way to change your handle? After today I could be ChumMachine.

[Papa drew]

Umm I have two kids.


Papa drew

[kobra]

Just a nickname I was tagged with as a kid.

[Electronics Squid]

I work on electronics for the Navy...when I decided to join the Navy, at the rather young age of 32, a good friend of mine who is a Marine kept giving me crap about being a squid...after a few times I told him that a squid is a higher form of Marine life...the look on his face was priceless, and so now I'm very happy being called a squid...

[GR6RR]

^ what I remember about the word squid is... A motorcyclist that wears no protective gear is considered a squid.:leaving:

Speaking of which my name is based of a motorcycle I used to own. It was an 08 Honda CBR 600RR Graffiti Edition. I used the name to join 600RR.NET, I no longer own the bike nor ride but have kept the name cause it's something I can easily remember.

[inbx3]

I had 3 kids and all their initials are INB hence the INBx3. Same name on Allcoast and BD also. Now it's actually INBx4. Not exciting but that's the truth and I'm sticking to it.

[fishingfiend]

FishingFiend, hopefully self explanatory. One year, I spent over 90 random days on the water and somehow managed to keep my job! :cheers1:

[PapaDave]

My grand kids call me papa, DCh are my initials

[William Novotny]

31 years ago my daddy really liked my mommy and out came my user name.

[Devildawgjj]

31 years ago my daddy really liked my mommy and out came my user name.


Classic!! :D

[bus kid]

Yes, the bite has been slow,,,,

this one is for all the new guys.

bump

[jorluivil]

this one is for all the new guys.

bump


What is considered a new guy?

[bus kid]

What is considered a new guy?

"Junior"

And it's more like 43.9 %

[capntim]

Before he rode off into the sunset(or would that be sunrise) to Texas
my buddy Donovan, who got me addicted to this type of fishing, used
to always call me "capn" and "capn tim". it was just the first thing that
came to mind. Oh and it happens to be my rank in the fire service.

[eertkao]

mine is OAKTREE spelled backwards because my last name is OAK and usually when I sign up on forums or other websites that require a username, "oaktree" is usually taken so I automatically just use "eertkao" since I'm pretty sure it's never been used.

[fish doctor]

fish doctor
its what i do
own my own store and been helping people with ther fish problems for 34years
customers call me that so often it seem normal to use it
kids call me the fishman

[NextBite]

NextBite because im always prepared for that NextBite ;)

[seriola_killer]

I am a former Marine. During WWII in the battle of Belleau Wood the Germans called us Teufelshunde..."Devil Dogs." A moniker that is accepted by calling out to other Marines.

There are so many "Devildogs," when I singed up for my e-mail account, I changed it to Devildawg, and bingo! JJ are my initals. Some people call me JJ.

In the Marines, they called me Buffalo Bill. I used to do this hilarious Buffalo Bill impersonation over the squadron radio, just to keep things frosty.:D Maintenance Control, was so uptight about it...:rolleyes:

PRECIOUS....."Put the lotion in the basket!"


Always a Marine! Semper Fi and thank you for your service!

[bus kid]

fishing is slow.

[Drake]

You don't even fish...

[jorluivil]

cough cough

[bus kid]

You don't even fish...

Yesterday we solved an age old mystery........Bus Kid does in fact fish:eek:

Once a year....:rolleyes:

[Biggameaddict]

Mines not really that special. Its just a random name i chose to join fishing sites.

[dbarnett66]

Dbarnett66= Initial of first name, last name, year of birth. I go by Danodog, because I played football and earned my nickname by picking up a piece of dog crap and putting it in peoples faces so I could cut to the front of the hitting drills. I got bored waiting in line and wanted to participate in the one on one drills and splitting the double team drills. :D

TMI?

Danodog. Is there a way that I could get rid of dbarnett66 and get my user name changed to Danodog?

[Necron 99]

Mine is just the name of my avatar. It's from a Ralph Bakshi film from the 70'S. Ok, so I have no imagination or even a nickname. I just like to fish.

[JohnnyCope]

Copenhagen makes me feel so good !
I love the sh!t, to bad it f'ed my mouth!
And I'm not a super Hero !

[ship 4 brains]

Enough said!

[outdoorzen]

So me and a buddy of mine were on deployment with grand plans on a website dedicated to the outdoors and the feeling you get while doing what you love. We came up with "outdoorzen".We bought the url and have had plans on doing something with it ever since... that was 10 years ago. Mike transferred and we lost touch but....Mike, I still owe you $10 for the first year of ownership! :p

[Ddwineguy]

Before I became a full time stay at home dad (jealous much), I was the wine manager for a division of Southern Wine and Spirits. Before that I was a manager at George's at the Cove for ten years. If you look up while fishing the cove you can spot the umbrellas on the terrace of the restaurant. I am actually a certified specialist of wine and can follow my name post ordinarily with CSW. So bring on the wine questions!

[bus kid]

I am actually a certified specialist of wine and can follow my name post ordinarily with CSW. So bring on the wine questions!

So what's a good wine to go with a Ballast point? :D

[PE.rider]

My ride on the water is roto-molded polyethylene ... or PE.

[Ddwineguy]

So what's a good wine to go with a Ballast point? :D
May I pleaaseeeeeeeee drink your last one!

[Saba Slayer]

OK...the weather is too rough to fish or hoop so here goes...
Back in the mid 90"s when I used to fish Point Dume with Denis Spike (the grandfather of kayak fishing), and his cousin Howard Rose (Producer of the first "Kayak Fishing Video"), we used to call the guy that never caught anything but Mackerel on our outings the Saba Slayer.
When I first bought my 18' CC in the mid 90's my son and I were looking for a name for the new boat, he suggested Halibut Killer or Tuna Tamer but I wanted something different so I said how about Saba Slayer...my son liked it but he didn't know what it meant...the name stuck, and since then it's been pretty appropriate with the number of Macks that I harvest each season for Lobster bait.
I first used my screen name on the first kayak web site that I remember which was Denis Spikes' Coastal Kayak Fishing.com started in 97'. The "old" AllCoast PB board was also a good site back in the late 90's and I feel it was there that hoop netting really exploded.
Alright.... that's my story and I'm sticking to it!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Jim / Saba Slayer

[Lipripper92592]

In the late 80's I used to live in the central valley and jump the canal fences and fish the gates and spillways. When the security guys would drive within view, I'd hop the fence and wait until they left. After a few years of seeing this, they finally stopped and asked if I ever catch any fish. We hit up a good conversation and they said they don't mind me fishing the locked gates as long as I don't leave any trash or bring friends. One day if was raining like heck and I'm drifting whole anchovies down the spillway when I get hit hard, as I'm fighting this fish the security guy pulls up to watch the show. A few minutes latter I pull up a nice 28" rainbow. I hastily pulled the hook, tossed back another chovie and proceeded to slay huge "bows' in the central valley canal. I was stunned that I was catching trout, he was stunned I was catching fish. After about the fifth fish, he walks up and says, "maybe you should be a bit more careful pulling those hooks, you are ripping their lips. From then of, when the fishing was hot, my buddies and I would say we're "ripping lips", a year or so latter my fishing buddy John starts calling me lipripper....add the zip, hence the name.

[Cbad Mike]

Reading everyone's answers was great and I wish I had some cool or entertaining story to share about my chosen name but I don't.
Cbad Mike... Because my name is Mike and I live in Carlsbad. (Pretty creative huh)

[RGB]

Mines just my initials. Easy to remember.....usually.

[JarrodMc]

Jarrodmc=Jarrod McGehee

Jarrod was normally always taken on the boards and I used to use my name and the number from whatever team I was on if it were baseball or football but now being in college I wrestle and we have weight classes but no numbers. And I know I won't forget my name, i hope

[tacmik]

First name Mike. Last name Taconi. tacmik

[Dannowar]

Danny


Manowar (the band not the jellyfish)

[RobFish]

My last name is intimidating to some folks...Fischlowitz.
It just so happens that I like to fish.
Handy, ain't it? :)

[caddisx]

Was a fly fishing guide in montana years ago. An xcaddis was a popular fly, I took the fly and changed it a bit. The fly was deadly, took a ton of trout with it including a 13lb brown on the East Gallatin. Renamed the fly caddisx and have used it as a sign in name ever since

[GREYAK]

My first yak was, you guessed it, grey.:cheers1:

[gear junkie]

I'm the guy that needs the widget and doohickey along with the shiny thingamubob.

[madncrzydm]

MADNCRZYDM

I have always been known by my buddies to be a lil wild a crazy which led to a tattoo on my chest when i was still a very young marine... its the Japanese symbol for mad and crazy like mad as in insane and crazy in the head and I love shooting and put that to practice and I was a designated marksman and carried the M-14 when i was with one of my units so MADNCRZYDM

[MITCHELL]

Minds simple my dog died and i inherited his name.See all you kayak fishing legends on the water when i get done battling cancer.I'm new to this site but i have been fishing off Diego all my life

[Deamon]

Minds simple my dog died and i inherited his name.See all you kayak fishing legends on the water when i get done battling cancer.I'm new to this site but i have been fishing off Diego all my life

I'm definitely no legend but love to fish. Get better soon and hope to meet you on the water. Jim

[fishing-kayak]

There isn't a lot of history behind my username. I love kayak and fishing and decided to use them in my username. I was lazy to think of anything else.

[janines.fishtales@cox.net]

My dad was a commercial fisherman. I was raised on his "fish tales". Over and over again I would hear him say, " I ever tell u about...." I would think to myself, " yeah dad...". But you know what, even though he would tell the same stories over and over, I never got tired of any of them. Then one day I bought a Harley and I put Samson fish tail pipes on it. So with my best friend in mind I put JSFISHTALES on the plates. Hence Janines fishtales!:cheers1:

[Emeraldbaykayaks]

My user name was my kayak fishing charter business that I had in Florida for 4 years. Until the oil spill hit.

[Regor]

It's been 6 months since the last post to this thread, and I've seen some new faces, and always wondering ....


Where DID that username come from?





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[Carp]

I frequent many boards in my life of hobbies. I have tons of interests
Gunsmithing
Hunting
fishing
woodworking
locksmithing
welding
cooking
Reloading

Now Kayak fishing

So its just me (jeff) sneaking in to steal some knowledge and contribute when I can.

[makobob]

Makobob

Fished mako's out of Mission Bay for a couple years in the late 80's till I figured this was a nursery area for them.

[The pelican]

The Pelican - I started kayak fishing on a tandem Pelican from Costco 7 years ago with a buddy who was so broke he brought a broom handle tied to mono as his rod. No joke. Eventually we figured it out and caught some decent fish (WSB and YT) on the tandem kayak. I'm peddling the Outback now but the Pelican still has a place in my heart.

[BillzBaitz]

Well nothing special hear, I make baits for fishing as a hobby and its the name of my company that doesnt exist.. :(

[icelogger]

I originally hail from the land of ice and snow. Minnesota. And I used to be a sawyer in Oregon.

[alanw]

My name is Alan W. so I had to get really creative and think of alanw because someone almost as creative as me already used alan

[easyday]

Easy day was my squads motto in Afghanistan.

[beef78]

It's a really long story. Short version: I was hanging out with some other sailors in Virginia and someone else couldn't turn a wrench and I said, "Let me put some beef behind that." After multiple people proclaimed that it was impossible, I put the beef behind the wrench and turned it. People thought the name was fitting and it stuck. 78 was my football number in high school.

[Irishman]

Simple for me, born and raised in Ireland, left when I was 21, arrived in San Diego and a couple of guys I used to hang and surf with gave me the name. When I was making the drop on a nice wave they would yell out Irishman, cause 20 years ago in San Diego not to many Irish guys surfing.

[Fiskadoro]

A long time ago, back on the first day when I first got on the web I went right to a So. Cal. fishing message board and posted a local Redondo halibut report.... one of the "board gurus" got bent out of shape,accused me of being someone (another poster) who I was not.I said: "I'm (my real name)"

A decade later I had a similar experience. I posted my first real Kayak Halibut report with this Redondo Halibuthttp://img94.imageshack.us/img94/5756/decked15ci.jpg
This time local internet "kayak board guru" got bent out of shape and Internet Kayak Guru2 and his buddies have been stirring up trouble for me on the kayak boards ever since. I guess you could say some things change, some things never change, I got stuck with my real name on the boards after that first day. I never felt the overwhelming need to change it since then:sifone:

Famous last words.. Ha Ha Ha!!!

Someone brought up that old post to me last night, and we had a good laugh about it. I guess some things do change.

Internet Kayak Guru2 and his lynch mob mentality buddies mentioned above eventually caused me so much trouble in the real world (offline) that I finally was forced to stop posting fish reports, and shortly after that post I changed all my fishing board names away from my real name.

"Fiskadoro" is a post apocalyptic novel set in the Florida Keys by Dennis Johnson. Kind of a "Mad Max" meets Hemingway's "Old Man and the Sea" I named the first boat I built after that Novel because it was a solo fishing craft built in kind of a Mad Max type manner so it seemed to be a good idea for a screen name.

I should of changed my board name a decade ago. Like with all bullies internet stalkers like to feel like they are really hurting someone. Using my real name made the attacks personal on my end, and that just made me a juicier target, because it gave those creeps a chance to hurt me directly while still staying (somewhat) anonymous themselves.

I don't get why some take so much pleasure in trying to hurt others, take this internet bullshit so seriously, or try to take it out into the real world, but they do. I guess those marginalized in real life want to feel they are having some kind of effect even if it's only online. To me it seems cheap, disgusting, the bottom of the barrel when it comes to human nature, but it does seem to be part of the internet low life culture that some gravitate to.

Since changing my board name the online attacks have slowed down, and at least now when someone types my real name into Google they are no linked to some lunatic ranting about how I'm an asshole because a decade ago I once said Malibu is a good place to fish Seabass in the spring.

So sometimes things do change and they can change for the better. I suppose those idiots feel they won because I had to change my name, and no longer post my trips online, but I like the new name, and really don't care if people know what I'm catching or not, and the change definitely has been a very good thing for me.:D

[IB Fish"N"]

Mine came from the fact that i was fishing everyday after work, weekends, when ever i could.

[Dirty Curti]

My first name is Curtis, when I was a teenager I played allot of sports...hmm still do, I would come home dirty, sweaty,...still do, and my cousin looks at me and says "Dirty Curti" so I've been DirtyCurti ever since.:leaving:

[Redeyejedi]

:sifone:


.......bout sums it up for me




:the_finger:

[kayachapi]

I live in Tehachapi, seemed like a good blend. I like the location, but Im too far from the BWE to get there as often as I would like.

[bpagentkastoll]

if you break it up, it is my job and last name. My last name is Kastoll, you can figure out the rest. In San Diego, you see my colleagues in green uniforms pretty much everywhere.

[jorluivil]

Makobob

Fished mako's out of Mission Bay for a couple years in the late 80's till I figured this was a nursery area for them.


Where did the BOB part come from?

[makobob]

Short for Robert, sitting on the swim step with a chum slick going, my buddy asked what I was doing.Told him I was Bobbing around, then threw him a 3 foot mako pup I had just grabbed free hand, he was just swiming around the chum bucket.

[Pocoloco]

Pocoloco was the name of my first boat and my lifestyle at the time.
Still a little crazy after all these years:sifone:::cheers1:

[Fiskadoro]

Where did the BOB part come from?

He swims about as well as you do :D

[CKallday71]

CKallday71:

CK= Chris Kelly,

allday= the fact that when I'm at work I normally work open to close, a 12 hour shift. (Bell to Bell as they say in the car business),

71 my year of birth.

[WildernessWanker]

Been a while, new faces.
My first kayak was a wilderness systems tarpon plus I love the outdoors, the wilderness. The first time I surf launched I cut off some surfer that was coming in and he called me a "wanker" as he flew by. Made sense at the time, although I probably would have gone with my username on all other forums, "Trioxide3."

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[HELLSTER INC.]

Have been called the Hellster since high school. Long haired guy in the rock band, I survived the 80's! I think you all can figure out the rest because i don't remember a whole lot of it!

[Chops6531]

Well I'm really short and have been that way all my life...in Spanish "chapparito" means short and everyone in my family called me that. So as the years went buy my brothers started calling me Chops and the nickname stuck. 6531 is my MOS as a Marine. I'm an Aviation Ordnanceman!

[FISH11]

FISH 11 . To go fishing was why I decided to get a Kayak in the first place and excersise. I thought the word FISH would already be taken so I just added my jersey number from when I used to play Soccer in High School and College. The number 11 was my favorite of all the different number I used in all the years I played. Later on someone signed up and used Fish and a bunch of people posted they couldn't believe it was available and I like many never thought to try it.

[Rambo]

Can't believe no body choose Rambo on the board yet so I just typed it in and bam I'm in luck. Chose Rambo cause my name is Sambo. Yes it's a derogatory term. I've heard all the stories and the restaurant, the published book. . And so on. . But my name in Cambodian (Khmer) is a prefix added before the word meaning plentiful. And some people just can't pronounce Sam-bow!

[45user]

My favorite pistol to shoot and use is 1911 in .45 caliber.
:D
45

[Bert Vega]

Cause my name is Bert Vega.

[ReelDum]

I'm really dumb:stupid:

[easyday]

Had a company comander that would always say easy day gents so it stuck and EASY DAY became my squads motto in Afghanistan

[ol'skool]

So even though I'm new to this forum...
> I've been fishing Redondo harbor since the 60's...Ol' Skool
> I love ridin' my Harley...Ol' Skool
> I used to blow gun big frogs in the sump behind Tordondo little league field in a
home made raft (my first kayak :-)...Ol' Skool
> I'm a blacksmith so I forged my own gaff...Ol' Skool
> Some of Jesus' best men were fishermen, I love Jesus and fishin'...Ol' Skool
> Turnin' 58 next month...definitely Ol' Skool!
> Love my 2013 PA14! OK...Not so Ol' Skool LOL!

[Squid Vicious]

Squid Vicious...favorite bait=squid...favorite band=sex pistols(bass player sid vicious)pure gen X

[octico]

OcTico

Orange
County
Tico = Nickname for a person from Costa Rica, hence OcTico

[Phatford]

PHATFORD:

Phat = both COOL and FAT Because my truck is wide...
Ford = FORD

[Hobie-Pedaller]

Great idea for a post.



i agree !!

i first recreational kayaked (no fishing) in TX lakes on summer vacations in the late 1990's, while back visiting family.

i loved being on the water, but HATED "PADDLING" a yak with my arms. To me, it was just too much work & too slow speed, and so i always preferred riding the jet skis my sister also had back in TX. ;)

then i test-drove my first fishing kayak, the Hobie Outback, in July 2003 at Fast Lane Sailing Center in Misn Bay.

and was immediately addicted to the pedal drive system, bought the yak that day, took to LaJolla the next day..... and then promptly rolled & dumped on my first ever launch attempt. :blush5:

i had NO CLUE what i should be doing to correctly pilot a kayak period, let alone in the surf. but just kept at it, until i sort of learned.

by the time i found the kayak msg boards around late 2004, i was completely addicted to fishing from the Hobie Kayak with the pedal drive.... so choosing my username, was very simple for me.




driftwood.

It took me a whole year to learn how to land my kayak without flipping.
One afternoon, I flipped coming back from a long day of fishing.

I rolled down that big wave all the way to the sandy beach! A tourist saw me and said i looked like Driftwood washing up the beach.

probably the BEST "STORY" behind any username here. :D




http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d151/Iceman619/Andybendo1copy2.jpg



"ICEMAN" HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY FAVORITE USERNAME EVER, from anyone since i first saw it on the original "PlasticNavy" & "LJKayakFishing" websites, back in 2004.

partly because the name is just flat out cool. :cool:

and partly because of the many great photoshop images & gif images IceMan has made for his various accts, on many of the common fishing websites.

HONORABLE MENTION: i haven't seen any posts by him in past few years, but "MAD SCIENTIST" was always my second favorite username on the message boards. pretty cool name as well.
.

[Mahigeer]

Mahigeer is Farsi for angler, fisherman.

Mahi being fish.

Geer being to catch.

[AirborneYak]

I was a paratrooper in the 82nd airborne. Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. My last jump I landed in a tree. It was my softest landing, but I was stuck up the tree canopy for almost 2 hours. So that's where airborne came from. Airborneyak.

Airborne all the way!!

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[dabitch]

I think it speaks for itself....Or, at least, that's what HE said.

~DaBitch

[Vansmack]

I used to listen to Jim Rome daily on the radio, Vansmack is one of his nicknames. No, I never smacked a van.

Chris

[JDW]

Just my initials. Nothing fancy.

[Mahigeer]

Mahigeer means angler in Farsi.

[Fish n Jeep]

I was a paratrooper in the 82nd airborne. Jumping out of a perfectly good airplane. My last jump I landed in a tree. It was my softest landing, but I was stuck up the tree canopy for almost 2 hours. So that's where airborne came from. Airborneyak.

Airborne all the way!!

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Thank you for your service!!!:you_rock:

[Fish n Jeep]

Mine isn't very exciting. Pretty much the two things that give me peace of mind and happiness. First being out on the water and catching fish. And also hitting the trails in my jeep wrangler jk. I have to admit though as of late I have been ignoring the jeep for my mistress the outback and LJ!!!:cheers1:

[SLYACKER]

Im lazy!


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[Fishwhisperer619]

I jokingly told my dad that I was launching at IB and paddling to the coronado islands and he said "youll be sleeping with the fishes" and I said "i know what im doing, i whisper to the fish and they come biting". And he said "thats my point, sharks included".
So the name kinda jokingly stuck.
619 because im from SD

[tsugg]

My memory is going so I kept it simple, something I might not forget! My name is Tom Sugg so after a long trial and error period I came up with tsugg. Hopefully I won't forget it.:luxhello::reel::jig::reeling:

[tsugg]

If you wonder about lowspark, I'm an electrician by trade. A nickname by co- workers.

[army guy]

Spent 23 years in the Army. So I guess I'm an army guy.:shot

[Southman]

Last name is South. And I guess I'm somewhat of a man, although my wife may disagree on that one... ;)

[Fish Taco]

I grew up in San Diego... eating plenty of good Mexican food. My first trip to San Felipe with my wife and two other couples.... well, we got extremely hammered and ended up on the street one evening indulging in fish and shrimp tacos from a street vendor with a cart... man, best tasting tacos I think I ever had.

Since then, fish tacos have become one of my most favorite foods (and probably half of SoCal as well!)...

Anyway, when I first bought my kayak from CJ at OEX in 2011... I lived on Long Island in NY... my ride is pretty tricked out and I thought long and hard for a good name for her. New Yorker's aren't clued in yet on how good fish tacos are... and I thought it would be a memorable name for my first serious fishing kayak. As it turns out, as I joined several message boards using it as my screen name, as well as joining the Kayak Fishing Association of NY (KFA-NY) it became my member name as well. It was sort of my homage to my hometown of San Diego and where I'm from. Was also hoping it might bring some good mojo to my kayak someday... and provide plenty of fish tacos!

[Widgeon]

4800 baud modem. :doh:
Been a long time since them days.
I'm fairly new to this site, but I used to do a lot of duck hunting and one of my favorite targets is the American wigeon... A species of duck.
When I first started getting into this whole forum thing, for hunting and fishing, I guess I miss-spelled it as wi-D-geon and it stuck.

[619-SWIM-DOG]

619 since I'm born and raised here and swim dog, because I like to swim. It's the same user name that I have on aquahunters.

[Lineman47]

Well I'm a journeyman lineman and my local is #47.


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[Jaysuuun]

LOL this is a funny thread. My name is Jason. I used to watch Roland Martin's show back in middle school. I got a kick out of "SOONN!" every time he hooked something. So hence the name Jaysuuun as it's pronounced. Took me a long time to figure out that "SON" was short for son of a gun. I always thought it was some kind southern slang he was using. LOL

[ceruleandrms]

Ceruleandrms. Cerulean is a deep blue color and drms is short for dreams. Many many moons ago when I was younger I got so faded with my friends everything turned blue and I thought I was dreaming. Thought I became an oompa-loompa.


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[summers in kuwait]

Summers in Kuwait

This was the name of my old band in Arcata, CA. It was a four piece. Kind of stoner, garage rock, indie, progressive mix of music.

I came up with the name because I liked the idea of the romanticized "summers in France" but juxtaposed with the idea of Kuwait.

[CardShark]

What a great idea for a thread, there has been so many times I've wondered the meanings of random screen names on boards.

As for me, I used to play poker professionally so hence the name CardShark

[YakDout]

YakDout, a struggle with addiction. To kayaks! No double meaning here....

[supaboy1981]

When I was young I was a very good gymnast, my dad told me I could fly and when I tumbled it felt like it so Superboy but with a Hawaiian accent Supa-Boy

[Starsky]

My son's name is Sky, and my Daughters name is Star, so together its Starsky. Some boards that have Starsky taken I use Skystar. :cheers1:

[Harry Hill]

I used my real name only to be asked what my real name is. If was going to use a fake name it would be Hairy Hill in deference to the mons pubis

[Wanderingincircles]

When I signed up for Waze (GPS app, for those that don't know), I needed a screen name. I actually put some thought into it and came up with this. And have been using it ever since.

-Jason

[2-Stix]

In 1992 I was still on skis and all my buddies were on snowboards...freshman year of high school...I was called 2-Stix for the 2 sticks on my feet. LOL. I still go by Stix with a big group of friends. Took it to business also... www.2-stix.com

[Fishin' Magician]

Back in the 70's, I had a friend who used this 'handle' to refer to his fishing prowess. He ALWAYS seemed to be catching instead of just fishing. He was either a master...., or the luckiest SOB I've ever met.

He took a job in another part of the state and as he left he said, "Snatch the pebble from my hand, Grasshopper". Okay, he didn't say that. But he did say, "Okay, it's time. I'm passing the name on to you. Maybe you'll learn how to catch something for once with that stupid rod of yours!" And with that, he was gone.

I'm still trying to learn all of his secrets to fishing success. Since that day I've tried to live up to the name, Fishin' Magician.

[bwana]

My hunting buddy from Montana, also an ol' school biker, gave me the nickname Bwana. We spent a lot of time hunting and riding together.

He would throw parties for all our biker friends inviting them to a pig roast before we even went pig hunting.

Somehow the weekend before the party we would always get a pig or two.

http://i1321.photobucket.com/albums/u544/OCbwana/FarmerJohn_zpsibl7go2g.png?t=1461731540

He named me Bwana since I always got a limit and shot the largest animals.

I reminded him of a big game hunter leading a safari in South Africa.

Next thing I know all my riding and hunting friends are calling me Bwana.

[Chuck D]

Back in the day I used to listen to a lot of Public Enemy so my boys called me Chuck D because my name was Chuck. Last name is Wittenberg no relation to D:)

[Southman]

Last name is South. I'm a man, sort of.
I guess I could have gone in any direction with it.

:notworthy:

[Mr. NiceGuy]

Zombie thread from Feb, 2011?

I'm a nice guy and kayak fishing excites me.

[MITCHELL]

And a 20ft cutty cabin 1967 seahunter called the Lady Jane....and would take the dog tuna fishing with me,simple my dog died in 2007 he was 15 year old

[Snags]

The name of my band.
"Rock and roll with a fishin pole"

[americas911]

Im a Marine, so Americas 911 force! :cheers1:

[Lit-up1]

When some fish get caught they are all agitated and "lit-up" :blush5:

[BADASS]

It was open i got kick off sdfish for using badass as a username I should have used ( cheep ass ) or (jack ass)

[YakDout]

Im a Marine, so Americas 911 force! :cheers1:

:cheers1:

[Regor]

Been out of the loop for a few years now due to .... life .... events. The yak is still in great shape and time to clean it up and head back out.

Wondering what some of the new crew of BWE have in username history, how did you come up with it? It's always fun to hear :)

[JohnMckroidJr]

In the ticket office at Portsocall Sportfishing, a friend of mine jokingly wrote, "John Mckroid Jr." under a photo of a big yellowtail that I caught.

Passengers started referring to me by the name, and it stuck. I once had to return a paycheck from 22nd St. Landing to have the last name corrected.

That was back in the early 80's. Raising a family put the hobby on hold for a few decades. In 2014 when I resumed fishing, John Mckroid was also revived for social media and has even set a few records in kayak fishing tournaments. :D

[Mahigeer]

Mahigeer is Farsi for angler, fisherman.

[PapaDave]

I got my name from my grand daughters, always called me Papa... still do.

[jorluivil]

Mine is simple, it's the first three letters of my first, middle and last name

[erinoo]

Same...Frist three letters of first and last name

[f'nsabiki]

No explanation needed if you have ever used a Sabiki to make bait.

[FullFlavorPike]

No explanation needed if you have ever used a Sabiki to make bait.

Or if you ever snagged 6 sabiki hooks into yourself or any of your gear :farmer:

[FISH11]

Awesome sign in name. I died laughing the first time I saw it, cause I knew exactly what it meant. I say it almost every trip.

[FullFlavorPike]

I've been using FullFlavorPike since college. Started as a joke about a fake ska band and something to do with a carton of cheap cigarettes that said "Full Flavor" on them; but then I worked as a baker/pastry chef turned full time food writer for better than a decade and it just fit. Now I'm pretty attached to it.

[SoCalEDC]

It was an old screen name from another hobbyist community. so cal - southern california, edc - every day carry = socalEDC.

[Salty]

I worked and managed a saltwater aquarium store and maintenance service in Orange County for 6 years. Surfing and fishing have been lifelong passions. At that time, there wasn't a day that went by that I wasn't in saltwater, either in the ocean or in an aquarium! Also, the shop owner would refer to me as "Salty Sleeves" because whenever I came back form a day of servicing aquariums, my sleeves would be covered in so much dried-up saltwater they were hard and crunchy

[LEEZO]

one of the Mission Beach cronies used to call me Leezo (extended version of Lee) when i was a kid. I started using it on screen names as a result.

[Freedom Fytah]

I'm always fighting for my freedom to fish...primarily vs. my wife! :cheers1:

[ProfessorLongArms]

I'm not even kind of a Professor. Don't even have a Bachelor's degree...

Just what my 5'2 wife calls me when she needs me to get stuff off high shelves....
"Hey Professor Longarms! Get in here!"

[Salty]

I'm not even kind of a Professor. Don't even have a Bachelor's degree...

Just what my 5'2 wife calls me when she needs me to get stuff off high shelves....
"Hey Professor Longarms! Get in here!"
Haha that's awesome... Comes in handy when reaching for bugs in those deep nooks and crannies too though! :lobster:

[FoodGeekFish]

Three of my preferred diversions:

Food - cooking, baking, eating...
Geek - video games, board games, comics
Fish - why we're all here

[JohnAndrew]

JohnAndrew - John is my name and Andrew is name of my best father ever. People love your parents!

[iethinker]

I covered this topic on a thread here and wasn't even kicked off the forum:

http://www.bigwatersedge.com/bwevb/showthread.php?t=27264

Enjoy