I've noticed that many of these threads include lingo that a novice/outsider may not pick up on. I've attached a small list of commonly used terms. This is by no means complete, but its a start.
Blown – Water muddied by wind, tide, or rain. Fishing in a “blown” spot is often an exercise in futility.
Bubba (beau)-rig – A twelve inch slip cork, kahle hook, and weight used to drift a shrimp or mud minnow. Highly effective and used by everyone named bubba, and those that refer to their friends as “beau.”
Bull – Large oceangoing redfish. When redfish reach sexual maturity, they go offshore to live and only return to the sounds in the fall to spawn. The rough cutoff for bull sized redfish is around 35+ inches. Sometimes bulls can be caught in the spring too.
Can – Floating buoy.
Cluster-%#*$ - The area within ½ nautical miles of a party beach or sandbar. This area is infested with drunk boaters, jet skis, and inexperienced idiots who collectively make fishing impossible/unpleasant.
Dead stick – throwing ones bait/lure into a likely area and not applying any action.
Doormat – Large flounder. Roughly 21 inches or better.
Drop – Carry over from offshore fishing. Lingo for a
fishing spot, gps coordinates, etc.
Good Eatin – Anything caught and posted on GON or coastal outdoors. Up to and including gar, bonnethead sharks, stingrays etc. Common use- “stingrays are good eatin!”
High and dry – A boat which has run aground on a sandbar, and now must wait until the tide comes back in.
Mess – A large quantity of dead fish. “John went out and caught a mess of trout for a fish fry” or just “nice mess.”
Peck3r – A small trout. Pretty much anything under 14in
Poon- A tarpon.
Pushing – Redfish swimming and feeding deliberately in shallow water.
Rat – a small redfish. Commonly assigned to redfish under 15 inches.
Roe-trout – Springtime female trout that are full of eggs. Usually used to identify large fat female trout above 18 inches.
Rolling – Tarpon gulping air. This action gives away the location of the school.
Sad-daddy – A large trout over 20 inches. Derived from the shape of a trout’s jaw when it is closed (it looks like a frown).
Slot – A redfish between 14 and 23 inches in GA waters.
Spring tide – Tides with highs over 8 ft. Spring tides flood tailing flats, but also blow out many areas.
Super-rat – redfish in the 15 – 18 inch range. They eat everything, and are extremely easy to catch.
Tailer - A redfish eating off of the bottom in an area shallow enough to cause its tail to become exposed.
Tailing Flat – a hard bottomed flat with shorter and sparser grass that floods on a spring tide. Tailing flats are usually covered with fiddler crabs and snails when they aren’t flooded
Tater chip – A small flounder. Pretty much anything under 15 inches.
The ditch – The inter-coastal waterway
The hill – The mainland, or dry land in general
The man – DNR agent. Commonly encountered at the most inopportune times
Trash – Fishermen that don’t respect fellow anglers. Common behavior of trash includes barging into a location already occupied by a boat on anchor/trolling motor, keeping over/under-slot fish or more than the limit, waking boats that are fishing in shallow water etc. Common saying- “I’ve been fishing this drop for years, I don’t care if you were here first.”
TT – Tripletail. Delicious saltwater steroid bream that float around on top or hang out under structure.
Whiting patrol – Random boats fishing in the middle of a channel or in spots (correctly or incorrectly) assumed to be unproductive. Usually the whiting patrol is in a boat that doesn’t appear to be seaworthy.
Blown – Water muddied by wind, tide, or rain. Fishing in a “blown” spot is often an exercise in futility.
Bubba (beau)-rig – A twelve inch slip cork, kahle hook, and weight used to drift a shrimp or mud minnow. Highly effective and used by everyone named bubba, and those that refer to their friends as “beau.”
Bull – Large oceangoing redfish. When redfish reach sexual maturity, they go offshore to live and only return to the sounds in the fall to spawn. The rough cutoff for bull sized redfish is around 35+ inches. Sometimes bulls can be caught in the spring too.
Can – Floating buoy.
Cluster-%#*$ - The area within ½ nautical miles of a party beach or sandbar. This area is infested with drunk boaters, jet skis, and inexperienced idiots who collectively make fishing impossible/unpleasant.
Dead stick – throwing ones bait/lure into a likely area and not applying any action.
Doormat – Large flounder. Roughly 21 inches or better.
Drop – Carry over from offshore fishing. Lingo for a
fishing spot, gps coordinates, etc.
Good Eatin – Anything caught and posted on GON or coastal outdoors. Up to and including gar, bonnethead sharks, stingrays etc. Common use- “stingrays are good eatin!”
High and dry – A boat which has run aground on a sandbar, and now must wait until the tide comes back in.
Mess – A large quantity of dead fish. “John went out and caught a mess of trout for a fish fry” or just “nice mess.”
Peck3r – A small trout. Pretty much anything under 14in
Poon- A tarpon.
Pushing – Redfish swimming and feeding deliberately in shallow water.
Rat – a small redfish. Commonly assigned to redfish under 15 inches.
Roe-trout – Springtime female trout that are full of eggs. Usually used to identify large fat female trout above 18 inches.
Rolling – Tarpon gulping air. This action gives away the location of the school.
Sad-daddy – A large trout over 20 inches. Derived from the shape of a trout’s jaw when it is closed (it looks like a frown).
Slot – A redfish between 14 and 23 inches in GA waters.
Spring tide – Tides with highs over 8 ft. Spring tides flood tailing flats, but also blow out many areas.
Super-rat – redfish in the 15 – 18 inch range. They eat everything, and are extremely easy to catch.
Tailer - A redfish eating off of the bottom in an area shallow enough to cause its tail to become exposed.
Tailing Flat – a hard bottomed flat with shorter and sparser grass that floods on a spring tide. Tailing flats are usually covered with fiddler crabs and snails when they aren’t flooded
Tater chip – A small flounder. Pretty much anything under 15 inches.
The ditch – The inter-coastal waterway
The hill – The mainland, or dry land in general
The man – DNR agent. Commonly encountered at the most inopportune times
Trash – Fishermen that don’t respect fellow anglers. Common behavior of trash includes barging into a location already occupied by a boat on anchor/trolling motor, keeping over/under-slot fish or more than the limit, waking boats that are fishing in shallow water etc. Common saying- “I’ve been fishing this drop for years, I don’t care if you were here first.”
TT – Tripletail. Delicious saltwater steroid bream that float around on top or hang out under structure.
Whiting patrol – Random boats fishing in the middle of a channel or in spots (correctly or incorrectly) assumed to be unproductive. Usually the whiting patrol is in a boat that doesn’t appear to be seaworthy.
Holy smokes I strongly dislike that guy!!!
