WHAT\'S IN A NAME?

[TC]

Having read the brand new book, \"The Codling Crouch\" (written by NESA member David Storey and available direct from David at a special discounted price of £7.50 (+p&p) for NESA members - just send him a PM to place your order........just thought I\'d get another plug in there, David....lol) and partly as a result of a conversation between willywetegg and myself last Friday night, the use of strange, alternative names for commonly encountered \"fishing things\" has got me wonderin\'.

What are the origins of such terms as:-
\"Pilen\" = peeler crab
\"Poodlers\" = Coalfish
\"Yucking\" = hooking
\"Grunters\" = Gurnards

and the one Jim & I were discussing......

\"Scotchies or \"Scotch Haddock\" = Pouting.......why \"Scotch?......why \"Haddock\" for that matter?
Could it be that any that were caught whilst fishing for Haddock couldn\'t be counted as part of the catch (i.e. \"scotched\")?????

Be interesting to hear (read) your views on these odd names and what other weird and wonderful terms are used (and why) in your neck of the woods ......or should that be \"stretch of the coast\"





[Edited on 6/10/2005 by TC]

[mark]

west coast of scotland and coalies become cuddies or saithe
pollack are lythe

chavs are neds

and tax inspectors are souless minions of satan (but that ones not restricted to scotland)

[Chippy]

Gurnards do make a noise when they are caught so that is probably the origin of that name.

I\'m from Yorkshire and am surprised to hear codling being called tommies on South Sheilds Pier

[TC]

I thought the term \"Tommy codling\" was commonly used all over the country to mean small, undersized codling.......did you think it was a term confined to the Yorkshire area, Chippy?

So who was \"Tommy\" anyway ????

[Tadpoleman]

John The Filliter has some good alternatives for fish !!
mackeral = Tigers
coalies = pokes
scotchies = blegs
gurnards = latch`its
porpoise = duntaz
and filliting is known a \"getting there jackets off \",.......

bert

[sless]

scratcher = bert

[KeithB]

\"Robbies\" is another one of John\'s I\'ve heard, bit bigger than tommys I think?

[Bri_K]

Why do they call baby ragworms maddies ?

and why does that fit bird on the great white shark programme on channel 5 look like a drag queen tonight ?

[Stores]

Gurnards do grunt - when the old man used to catch one in the boat, he\'d kiss it (it is my belief that Rex Hunt copied Jim Storey but I cannot prove it) and it always grunted as he did it, honest. I think, though I\'m not sure, that he used to squeeze it at the same time, prompting the \"grunt\"
Bert - porpoises were always \"dunters\" - is it because of the shape of their front end \"as though they\'ve been dunted\" aka bottle nose.

September fishing on the beach was always a trip for tommy codling. Wasn\'t there a song or nursery rhyme about \"little Tommy Tucker\" singing for his supper.....

[Charlie_Thompson]

Because they go mental on your hook IMHO

\"Maddies\" that is

[Edited on 6/10/2005 by Charlie_Thompson]

[Chippy]

What I meant was, I have never heard the name Tommy for a codling any where other than South Sheilds. Mebbes I don\'t catch enough of \'em.