The Big 3000

Well I made it to 3,000 posts! I wonder how much in fish bucks I’d have by now? I’ve had an idea for my 3000th post for a while now, so here goes. For those of you who aren’t using your actual name for your IDO member name, what does your name mean? I chose Sharon M figuring it’s unique enough, and there probably aren’t too many Sharons on here. So tell me, is yours a nickname and what is the story of it? How did you decide to use that rather than your actual name? Or if you’re using your actual name, do you have any nicknames that you just decided not to use?

I have few nicknames that are mostly used by family, Red and Sherman, among a few others. My sister calls me Sherman and even shortens my nickname by calling me Sherm for short.

My fish bucks all went to not getting banned. 😁

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Congrats Sharon!

I’ll just say that Lindy was my nickname, in high school and college…. having to do with my last name. So naturally, Lindy Rig is one of my favorite fishing set ups

No idea, I use a name generator whenever I need to pick a username. I think this one was from the pirate generator here: https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/pirate-names.php

I’ve been called BigWerm since I grew bigger than my Dad which was around the time the movie Friday came out, and it’s stuck ever since. It’s an abbreviation of my long German last name, hence the spelling with an E instead of an O.

I collect older Leinenkugel’s Brewery items and drink the same beer. I’ve been called (Hey Leinie Man) forever so it stuck.

I always use to dispatch fish prior to cleaning them with a small bat that had the name Thumper on it. Several of my friends use to call it the fish Thumper and they started calling me fishThumper. At the time I joined IDO it seemed like as good of a member name as anything else.

Sharon wrote:

I wonder how much in fish bucks I’d have by now?

$60.00 worth.

suzuki wrote:

My fish bucks all went to not getting banned.

If I recall, your still in the hole.

Bigpike is my obsession with large pike! Simple enuff

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Reef W wrote:

No idea, I use a name generator whenever I need to pick a username. I think this one was from the pirate generator here: https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/pirate-names.php

Fun! I might poke around and see what other fun names I can come up with.

I’ve always enjoyed winning and football.

Almost all of my outdoor activity is done on the weekend, except my weekend is Sunday & Monday. I do have other nicknames, but this is a family site.

My real name is Dan. After lurking several sites, it seemed pretty common to not use a real name. I love catching and eating Perch, and a great day of fishing would result in a Pail of Perch! So, there ya go!

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When I was 5 years old, my hockey coach started calling me TO; short for Todd Olson. It caught on, and that’s all anyone called me for the most part. Fast forward 15 years and some arrogant pro football player steals my nickname! What a Jack Wagon!

Anyway, TO for Todd Olson, and the setter because I’ve always had English Setter gun dogs.

When i first joined FTR, I was fishing out of a Lund Explorer 1600.
Explorer was taken already so I just dropped the E, hence Xplorer

I have no idea.

I didn’t start posting until I bought my Skeeter. You guys and gals can figure it out from there.

Locally many call me Spider. Got the name working in a factory where you had to punch your time card. There was always a backup crowd to punch out. Me being 6’5″ and 36 inch sleeve length arms, just say I reached over alot of people to get out of the plant and on my way sooner. One little guy looked back 1 day as I was punching out and said “You got arms like a long legged spider” Name stuck. That was 50 years ago.

Congrats!
My name is a tribute to my first fishing boat – a standard 14 ft Lund from the 70s with the center bench removed. It had a big cooler which had plumbed-in water for a live well. I added a casting deck and bow-mounted trolling motor (to go with the transom mounted one it came with). But it had a big, grumbly 25 horse Evinrude tiller that had a life of its own. It made a lot of noise and shook the whole boat at certain speeds – so I named her the Thunder Lund.

78 is my birth year.

Wish I could find the post nhamm begged steve fellegy to come back, went over why my name is what it is. Nick Hammer

Beads is something just for fun, site will do what it wants whenever it wants so I attempt to not take it serious anymore.

When I was a kid my best buddy called me B (instead of Brandon)

It evolved to B-man because I was one of the shortest kids in my class (and still am)

Newwood is a area I hunt. It’s called that after a fire destroyed the forest in that area. I go by newoodhntr.

I always was in and out of a bobcat skidloader since I was like 12, and my dad had bearcat sleds.
For no apparent reason people always called me bearcat.
My first real construction job was with Shafer contracting pouring concrete freeways and runways, some one who new me but I didnt recognize them yelled out bearcat, and its a dumb name that has always stuck.
Its usually that or a hole

I had a coworker at my first job out of school that always called me Mr. Derek and it became my nickname at work. I have been using it as a forum name since then.

Fishbucks

Good one Sharon, I forgot about fishbucks.

How many years ago was that?

I believe mine is self-explanatory.

River Rat Randy. Triple RRR. .For over 65 years on the River. AN still going strong but but not near as fast.! LOL. . . rrr

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Fishbucks

Good one Sharon, I forgot about fishbucks.

How many years ago was that?

Well, the fishbucks were part of the old site, and I think the new site debuted in 2014 or so? Either way, it seems like it’s a lifetime ago.

buckybadger wrote:

I’ve always enjoyed winning and football.

THat’s a weird way to spell Buckeye, you must be from Wisconsin…

Dutchboy wrote:

I have no idea.

I figured you were Bert’s long lost relative?

Real creative one here .

“Waldo” was a nickname through school being fairly close to my German last name. Back in the day when I went to sign up for a Gmail account, “waldo9190” came up as one of their “suggested” email names…and I just went with it.