Fishing Dictionary

[bassbum]

CATCH AND RELEASE - A conservation motion that happens most often right before the local Fish and Game officer pulls over a boat that has caught over it's limit.


HOOK - (1) A curved piece of metal used to catch fish.
(2) A clever advertisement to entice a fisherman to spend his live savings on a new rod and reel.
(3) The punch administered by said fisherman's wife after he spends their life savings.


LINE - Something you give your co-workers when they ask on Monday how your fishing went the past weekend.


LURE - An object that is semi-enticing to fish, but will drive an angler into such a frenzy that he will charge his credit card to the limit before exiting the tackle shop.


REEL - A weighted object that causes a rod to sink quickly when dropped overboard.


ROD - An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.


SCHOOL - A grouping in which fish are taught to avoid your $29.99 lures and hold out for spam instead.


TACKLE - What your last catch did to you as you reeled him in, but just before he wrestled free and jumped back overboard.


TACKLE BOX - A box shaped alarmingly like your comprehensive First Aid kit. Only a tackle box contains many sharp objects, so that when you reach in the wrong box blindly to get a Band-Aid, you soon find that you need more than one.


TEST- (1) The amount of strength a fishing line affords an angler when fighting fish in a specific weight range.
(2) A measure of your creativity in blaming "that darn line" for once again losing the fish.

[Rob Mak]

for got one:

BOAT
a very expensive high performance machine that is nothing more than a hole in the water that you throw money in to.


zooker