I work with kids in my real life and I had to laugh today when one of them really showed me how much of a language we developed unique to fishing or biology of fishing that really make no sense to anyone else. First of all… picture yourself talking to someone who is young (14 – 16) and really interested in fishing so he knows what a spinnerbait is who is sitting with someone from deep in the city, a person who has not ever really talked fishing.
The conversation started when the young man who knew something about fishing said ” so… Curt… do you fish with alot of leeches”. I said ” I used to but I really decided I’d go a different direction… didn’t like have to deal them day in and day out.” The young man from the city says… ” I wouldn’t fish with leeches ever” I said “why not?” and he says ” well.. why would you want to fish with a bunch of leeches… don’t you have some good friends that will go with you.” Hahaha… I had to explain a leech was a bait not a person hahaha. Well.. the conversation went down hill from there. I said “rusty crawfish” and the kid interjects “thats as dumb as jumbo shrimp… how the heck do you have a rusty crawfish?” hehehe. The entire conversation stemmed from still having the water smartweed discussion on my brain. The young fisherman and I were talking about different kinds of weeds and the young man from the city had us rolling laughing till we had tears. He didn’t exactly know what he was saying yet he was using the literal interpretation of the words. At one point he says… “let me get this straight… you take a bunch of leeches fishing in places that have a lot of rusty crawfish and the weeds by where you are fishing are smart…. riiiiight… Then if you catch a fish you let em go and see if you can catch em again?… and you thought golf was stupid” hahaha.
He said things like… ‘hydrilla… that like Godzilla?”
When I said buzz baits he asked if they got you high… it was too funny. I’ve been sitting here laughing about the conversation this evening and the more I thought about it the funnier it got. There are so many things we say that other people must wonder if we bumped our heads before we started talking.
…”I pitched the pork into the cover and pulled out a sow”…
…”How hard to you need to set the hook? Well … I rip there faces off!”
… someone askes us where’s a good place to fish… we don’t say lake so in so… or the river… we say things like… “wing dams” Ok so I need to drive to the dam and fish “no you fish the wing dams on the river” Dams have wings? or Wings have dams? What have you been drinking? hahaha
What’s your favorite fishing line? “Pee line” excuse me? “Pee line” um… I really don’t think I want to know the answer to this.
Where were you fishing today? “Deep in the… crap” You fish with Pee Line deep in the crap… I don’t think I’ll take up fishing…
What’s the name of that weed? “Snot weed… no fish there” Oh… duh… well that makes sense…
It was too funny.
Curt
