Nicknames you make up for other anglers you encounter

[flightliner]

A carp angler I knew years ago always used a builders barrow who was nicknamed "One wheel"
Another chap would sing Sinatra songs all the time, very bad and very annoying, it was'nt long before he was nicknamed "- - - k Sinatra".

 

[103841]

This thread is so typical of our British humour, very funny. Makes me feel sad to fish alone and not have anyone to nick name, maybe I’m known as Billy no mates.mg:

 

[binka]

maybe I’m known as Billy no mates.mg:

Or Roger the Rudd?

Not to be confused with 'Rodger' the Rudd, there's no excuse for that

 

[mikench]

Not true John!

 

[thecrow]

This thread is so typical of our British humour, very funny. Makes me feel sad to fish alone and not have anyone to nick name, maybe I’m known as Billy no mates.mg:

I fish alone most of the time, I don't purposely make nicknames up for other anglers its just that some volunteer for one without knowing it

 

[S-Kippy]

I fish alone most of the time, I don't purposely make nicknames up for other anglers its just that some volunteer for one without knowing it

Dont they just ! I know a bloke who fishes Bury Hill called " Turn that bloody light off you numpty" .

 

[103841]

Thinking about it I do sub consciously have at least one. When the owner of the estate wanders down to the lake with his hounds I have an image in my mind.



We do actually greet him with his Christian name but “sir”wouldn’t sound out of place.

 

[markcw]

our club match team once had Ivor The Engine and Blackadder in it, One was a train driver the other looked liked Blackadder.

 

[Keith M]

Dave who passed away a couple of years ago was one of the founding members and the chairman of our estate lake angling club and was also the head gamekeeper on the estate for as long as we can remember
He was affectionately known to all of us as ‘Bottle Nose’ because of the shape of his conk.

Keith

 

[Peter Jacobs]

Two nicknames that were nothing at all to do with fishing . . . .


Many years ago when I worked for a large Enginering and Construction company we had two employees both named, James Day, and in my department.


Sadly the older of the two had a serious illness resulting in the removal of his testicles . . . . after some months of recuperation he came back to work, fully fit.


A new employee kept on mixing up the two "Days" and in the end the chap who had had the operation said the difference is "Balls Day, and, No Balls Day"


The nicknames stuck for quite a few years but always caused some consternation with secretaries when asked to "send that to no balls Day" . . . . .

 

[103841]

I was chatting to someone this morning at a lake who needs a nickname.

Me “where the best swim to catch some quality roach”?

Him.. “see that willow in the corner over there, come August/ September when the elderberry is out, you’ll catch well. I watched a chap have not one but six roach over two pound out on hemp and tares in the course of a few hours”

I’m thinking a bit of an exaggeration but sounds worth a punt anyway.

Him “Mind you, that was back in 1983”

mg:

 

[Mark Wintle]

I was chatting to someone this morning at a lake who needs a nickname.

Me “where the best swim to catch some quality roach”?

Him.. “see that willow in the corner over there, come August/ September when the elderberry is out, you’ll catch well. I watched a chap have not one but six roach over two pound out on hemp and tares in the course of a few hours”

I’m thinking a bit of an exaggeration but sounds worth a punt anyway.

Him “Mind you, that was back in 1983”

mg:

The Historian?

One angler who shall rename anonymous was nicknamed 'Here lies' by Steve Spiller and myself as that's what should go on his gravestone....

 

[thecrow]

Should have been here in 83.

 

[mikench]

We had a bloke at uni who was a mature student ! This was the early 70's! He was called " Ten years after" when ever I listen to Alvin Lee i think of him and wonder what became of him!

 

[thecrow]

wonder what became of him!

He died :wh

 

[mikench]

Maybe but I think he was only 10 or so years older than us so late twenties! Hardly old but to us he was!

 

[bracket]

Ratchet man!

He had an annoying tendency to use the ratchet on his 'pin whenever he was playing a fish, just in case no one had noticed he had one on.

Took me ages to realise they were on about me :wh :laugh:

Finaly clicked then did it Steve? Pete.

 

[Peter Jacobs]

There have been many angling nicknames over the years, a few spring to mind; saddo, compo, thicko, and Zeno' to name just a few.

 

[thecrow]

There was one chap that used to fish a local water who had an extremely thin face, I don't know who coined the nickname but he became known as "skull head"

Another on the same water was called "broke jaw" as his jaw was wired up when he began fishing there.

 

[Peter Jacobs]

I forgot one of the older ones . . . one chap, who was rather thick (dense) was called "Lignum" . . . . . he also couldn't swim so like Lignum Vitae he would sink in water . . . .