Explain your name...

[tafadzwa]

I taught in Zimbabwe for a couple of years and "tafadzwa" was a common name in the rural area. It means "to be happy" although a great all purpose word in that it can change meaning depending on inflection and usage. Few things are as great as a fishing outing, so it works well.

[outdoor ran]

I'm always outdoors and my name is Randy but everyone calls me Ran. outdoor ran

[Eastwind]

My marine band radio handle. Grew up on the East Coast. Direction of the wind on at least one day of every fishing trip. Needed a Marine Band handle and my wife wouldn't let me use "Peterdragin" .

[TNFL]

Thats funny, My next ffl team will be PeterDragon.

My name is based on the fishing league I am in. The most unoriginal name for a fishing league...

Tuesday Night Fishing League

Who are the ad wizards that came up with that one.

We even have embrodered guide series fishing shirts from Gander with our names on the front and a big TNFL on the back. Its really generic and most people don't wear them. But I do. Better than wearing my work clothes, as we fish, you guessed it tuesday nights, usually right after work.

[McGurk]

McGurk, actually supposed to be spelled McGuirk, is a character on a show that used to run late Sunday nights on Adult Swim called Home Movies, and he is the worst role model-soccer coach-father figure-date-bachelor I've ever seen, and here's a picture of him to the left

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and yes, that is a chicita(sp) banana tattoo along with a cow head tattoo

[Dragonsm]

Dragonsm = "Dragon" for my college mascot...Moorhead State Dragons....."SM" initials for first & last name

[Fishing Junky]

Well, I'm addicted to fishin'.

[HawgTide]

Combining two of my biggest passions into a word with a totally different (and irrelevant) meaning.

Hawg=Bass Tide=The 3rd ranked undefeated Crimson Tide of Alabama

[Big Pine Walleye]

I hadn't fished for many years and than a friend of mine got me back into fishing and one of the places that we fished the most was big pine--so...

[HARPOON-OR-BUST]

WHEN I FIRST SIGNED UP FOR THIS SITE IT WAS PRIOR TO THE YEARLY DRINKING I MEAN SPEARING TRIP. I THINK IT WAS 2 YEARS AGO MAYBE 3 AND IT WAS ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE CRAPPY STARTS TO THE HARDWATER SEASON. SO I WAS TRYING TO WEIGH OUT THE OPTIONS -IS IT WORTH WALKING OUT ON 2" OF ICE ON WHINNY AND RISKING YOUR LIFE FOR THE SLIMMER?- WELL NEEDLESS TO SAY I WENT. I WAS THE GUINNI PIG THAT YEAR AND HAD TO WALK OUT FIRST WITH THE CHISSEL AND THE ROPE TIED AROUND MY WASTE.

THEREFORE HARPOON-OR-BUST = GO SPEARING OR CANCEL

[ZapBranigan]

I was ice fishing a lot at the time I enrolled here. I was using those light Zapping things to charge my glo baits at the time. Still do. Also a big Simpsons fan but the characters were over used so I went with Matt Gronings other less succesful show Futurama and picked up on Zapp Brannigan a leader who became famous for beating the Kill bots by throwing wave after wave of men at them until they went past their preprogrammed killing amounts and shut down. I don't know why that's funny but it is. So altered the spelling a bit and that's the result.

[V-12 Merlin]

If I'm not in a boat, I'm in an airplane, or want to be. One of my all-time favorite planes is one I haven't flown (yet) - the P-51 Mustang. The -B models and up had a British-designed Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, displaced something like 1760 cubic inches, had a two-stage supercharger, and put out slightly less than 1700hp, turning a 12-foot prop. The Brits used the same engine for their Spitfire and Hurricane fighters, and I think a bomber or two. It has a very memorable sound, one that people can pick out long before they see the plane.

Anyways, I'm a fairly "crappie" angler, and couldn't think of a good angling name, so I went with something I was more comfortable with.....

http://www.spitcrazy.com/spitsound.htm

[Fergus Mor McErc]

Fergus Mor McErc King of Scots of Dalriada.....my mother is into geneology and he's apparently some ancient grandfather of mine (on her side). He died in 501. He's regarded as the the first king of the Dal Riata, the people from which the Scottish kings are descended from.

[schweady]

Do a search for some old SNL clips where Alec Baldwin plays Pete Schweady, a guest on 'The Delicious Dish' NPR radio program. Pretty funny stuff. (Now featured in my updated avitar...)

[buzzsaw]

Ha Ha Schweady Balls!! That was such a funny skit!!

[gorrilla]

The Gorr part is my last name and the rest, is evident if we've met.

[southerner]

V-12, that spitfire motor sounds BAD A-S!!

"Southerner" simply seemed right at the time. I moved to MN a few years ago from Savannah, GA. Although I don't get it as often now as in years past, it's still a regular occurrence at work or elsewhere when someone will ask where I'm from. I usually tell them "Duluth". Sometimes they actually believe me.

[Perchnonice]

Perching on ice. Or maybe it just seems like thats all I catch.

[Bobby Bass]

Southerner that is pro-nounced "Da-Luth"

[Animal]

The alias that I use on some other fishing related pages was already taken when I registered. Animal was the first name that came to mind. So Animal I am.

[M.T. Bucket]

I'm not a very good ice fisherman. God knows I get out enough to catch some fish, but more often than I'd like to admit, I come home with an empty bucket.

I'm able to get out more in the winter but I'd prefer open water fishing ANY day.

[nytelyter]

welll not fishing related but it breaks down as nyte-lyter or night lighter i used to do commercial fireworks displays and i light the night with big breaks of beautiful fireworks

[icehousebob]

My preferred name,Uncle Bob, was taken. So, since I spend a bunch of time in fish houses and at the time my favorite beer was Ice House, and I don't like to capitalize, I became-----icehousebob

[wild_instigator]

I've been a MN Wild season ticket holder since day one. I get pretty rowdy at the games and heckle the opposing players a lot when they visit the sin-bin. So, I self-proclaimed my nickname on-line to be wild_instigator.

[MossBoss95]

Well my last name is Moss and in highschool they called me moss boss and the 95 is because of my 95 Bass Tracker.

[fishercat]

Well... This is the same ID I use on my ATV club website So seeing I love to fish and I ride an Arctic Cat I thought FisherCat was a natural progression.

[Dan Thiem]

Fishercat, I would think it would be Bill or Ted.

[Neiko]

I go away for a week and a guy steals my Avatar.

As for Neiko it was the name of my wolf-hybred I had.

[Mr. Pike1]

I have a Lund Mr. Pike boat. The 1 was added as there already was a Mr. Pike at the time I became a member.

[skunked_once]

I almost had to change mine. Took the boat out one last time on Friday and only caught one sinking little northern. In the about eight years I've had my boat, I've only been "skunked once". The most expensive equipment and fishing skill will never replace "dumb luck".