Copenhagen makes me feel so good !
I love the sh!t, to bad it f'ed my mouth!
And I'm not a super Hero !

Enough said!

So me and a buddy of mine were on deployment with grand plans on a website dedicated to the outdoors and the feeling you get while doing what you love. We came up with "outdoorzen".We bought the url and have had plans on doing something with it ever since... that was 10 years ago. Mike transferred and we lost touch but....Mike, I still owe you $10 for the first year of ownership! :p

ddwineguy
 

Before I became a full time stay at home dad (jealous much), I was the wine manager for a division of Southern Wine and Spirits. Before that I was a manager at George's at the Cove for ten years. If you look up while fishing the cove you can spot the umbrellas on the terrace of the restaurant. I am actually a certified specialist of wine and can follow my name post ordinarily with CSW. So bring on the wine questions!

So what's a good wine to go with a Ballast point? :D

My ride on the water is roto-molded polyethylene ... or PE.

May I pleaaseeeeeeeee drink your last one!

Saba Slayer
 

OK...the weather is too rough to fish or hoop so here goes...
Back in the mid 90"s when I used to fish Point Dume with Denis Spike (the grandfather of kayak fishing), and his cousin Howard Rose (Producer of the first "Kayak Fishing Video"), we used to call the guy that never caught anything but Mackerel on our outings the Saba Slayer.
When I first bought my 18' CC in the mid 90's my son and I were looking for a name for the new boat, he suggested Halibut Killer or Tuna Tamer but I wanted something different so I said how about Saba Slayer...my son liked it but he didn't know what it meant...the name stuck, and since then it's been pretty appropriate with the number of Macks that I harvest each season for Lobster bait.
I first used my screen name on the first kayak web site that I remember which was Denis Spikes' Coastal Kayak Fishing.com started in 97'. The "old" AllCoast PB board was also a good site back in the late 90's and I feel it was there that hoop netting really exploded.
Alright.... that's my story and I'm sticking to it!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Jim / Saba Slayer

In the late 80's I used to live in the central valley and jump the canal fences and fish the gates and spillways. When the security guys would drive within view, I'd hop the fence and wait until they left. After a few years of seeing this, they finally stopped and asked if I ever catch any fish. We hit up a good conversation and they said they don't mind me fishing the locked gates as long as I don't leave any trash or bring friends. One day if was raining like heck and I'm drifting whole anchovies down the spillway when I get hit hard, as I'm fighting this fish the security guy pulls up to watch the show. A few minutes latter I pull up a nice 28" rainbow. I hastily pulled the hook, tossed back another chovie and proceeded to slay huge "bows' in the central valley canal. I was stunned that I was catching trout, he was stunned I was catching fish. After about the fifth fish, he walks up and says, "maybe you should be a bit more careful pulling those hooks, you are ripping their lips. From then of, when the fishing was hot, my buddies and I would say we're "ripping lips", a year or so latter my fishing buddy John starts calling me lipripper....add the zip, hence the name.

Reading everyone's answers was great and I wish I had some cool or entertaining story to share about my chosen name but I don't.
Cbad Mike... Because my name is Mike and I live in Carlsbad. (Pretty creative huh)

Mines just my initials. Easy to remember.....usually.

Jarrodmc=Jarrod McGehee

Jarrod was normally always taken on the boards and I used to use my name and the number from whatever team I was on if it were baseball or football but now being in college I wrestle and we have weight classes but no numbers. And I know I won't forget my name, i hope

First name Mike. Last name Taconi. tacmik

Danny


Manowar (the band not the jellyfish)

My last name is intimidating to some folks...Fischlowitz.
It just so happens that I like to fish.
Handy, ain't it? :)

Was a fly fishing guide in montana years ago. An xcaddis was a popular fly, I took the fly and changed it a bit. The fly was deadly, took a ton of trout with it including a 13lb brown on the East Gallatin. Renamed the fly caddisx and have used it as a sign in name ever since

My first yak was, you guessed it, grey.:cheers1:

I'm the guy that needs the widget and doohickey along with the shiny thingamubob.

MADNCRZYDM

I have always been known by my buddies to be a lil wild a crazy which led to a tattoo on my chest when i was still a very young marine... its the Japanese symbol for mad and crazy like mad as in insane and crazy in the head and I love shooting and put that to practice and I was a designated marksman and carried the M-14 when i was with one of my units so MADNCRZYDM

Minds simple my dog died and i inherited his name.See all you kayak fishing legends on the water when i get done battling cancer.I'm new to this site but i have been fishing off Diego all my life

I'm definitely no legend but love to fish. Get better soon and hope to meet you on the water. Jim

There isn't a lot of history behind my username. I love kayak and fishing and decided to use them in my username. I was lazy to think of anything else.

My dad was a commercial fisherman. I was raised on his "fish tales". Over and over again I would hear him say, " I ever tell u about...." I would think to myself, " yeah dad...". But you know what, even though he would tell the same stories over and over, I never got tired of any of them. Then one day I bought a Harley and I put Samson fish tail pipes on it. So with my best friend in mind I put JSFISHTALES on the plates. Hence Janines fishtales!:cheers1:

My user name was my kayak fishing charter business that I had in Florida for 4 years. Until the oil spill hit.

Anyone new?
 

It's been 6 months since the last post to this thread, and I've seen some new faces, and always wondering ....


Where DID that username come from?





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I frequent many boards in my life of hobbies. I have tons of interests
Gunsmithing
Hunting
fishing
woodworking
locksmithing
welding
cooking
Reloading

Now Kayak fishing

So its just me (jeff) sneaking in to steal some knowledge and contribute when I can.

Makobob

Fished mako's out of Mission Bay for a couple years in the late 80's till I figured this was a nursery area for them.

The Pelican - I started kayak fishing on a tandem Pelican from Costco 7 years ago with a buddy who was so broke he brought a broom handle tied to mono as his rod. No joke. Eventually we figured it out and caught some decent fish (WSB and YT) on the tandem kayak. I'm peddling the Outback now but the Pelican still has a place in my heart.

Well nothing special hear, I make baits for fishing as a hobby and its the name of my company that doesnt exist.. :(

I originally hail from the land of ice and snow. Minnesota. And I used to be a sawyer in Oregon.

My name is Alan W. so I had to get really creative and think of alanw because someone almost as creative as me already used alan

Easy day was my squads motto in Afghanistan.

It's a really long story. Short version: I was hanging out with some other sailors in Virginia and someone else couldn't turn a wrench and I said, "Let me put some beef behind that." After multiple people proclaimed that it was impossible, I put the beef behind the wrench and turned it. People thought the name was fitting and it stuck. 78 was my football number in high school.

Simple for me, born and raised in Ireland, left when I was 21, arrived in San Diego and a couple of guys I used to hang and surf with gave me the name. When I was making the drop on a nice wave they would yell out Irishman, cause 20 years ago in San Diego not to many Irish guys surfing.

Famous last words.. Ha Ha Ha!!!

Someone brought up that old post to me last night, and we had a good laugh about it. I guess some things do change.

Internet Kayak Guru2 and his lynch mob mentality buddies mentioned above eventually caused me so much trouble in the real world (offline) that I finally was forced to stop posting fish reports, and shortly after that post I changed all my fishing board names away from my real name.

"Fiskadoro" is a post apocalyptic novel set in the Florida Keys by Dennis Johnson. Kind of a "Mad Max" meets Hemingway's "Old Man and the Sea" I named the first boat I built after that Novel because it was a solo fishing craft built in kind of a Mad Max type manner so it seemed to be a good idea for a screen name.

I should of changed my board name a decade ago. Like with all bullies internet stalkers like to feel like they are really hurting someone. Using my real name made the attacks personal on my end, and that just made me a juicier target, because it gave those creeps a chance to hurt me directly while still staying (somewhat) anonymous themselves.

I don't get why some take so much pleasure in trying to hurt others, take this internet bullshit so seriously, or try to take it out into the real world, but they do. I guess those marginalized in real life want to feel they are having some kind of effect even if it's only online. To me it seems cheap, disgusting, the bottom of the barrel when it comes to human nature, but it does seem to be part of the internet low life culture that some gravitate to.

Since changing my board name the online attacks have slowed down, and at least now when someone types my real name into Google they are no linked to some lunatic ranting about how I'm an asshole because a decade ago I once said Malibu is a good place to fish Seabass in the spring.

So sometimes things do change and they can change for the better. I suppose those idiots feel they won because I had to change my name, and no longer post my trips online, but I like the new name, and really don't care if people know what I'm catching or not, and the change definitely has been a very good thing for me.:D

Mine came from the fact that i was fishing everyday after work, weekends, when ever i could.

My first name is Curtis, when I was a teenager I played allot of sports...hmm still do, I would come home dirty, sweaty,...still do, and my cousin looks at me and says "Dirty Curti" so I've been DirtyCurti ever since.:leaving:

:sifone:


.......bout sums it up for me




:the_finger:

I live in Tehachapi, seemed like a good blend. I like the location, but Im too far from the BWE to get there as often as I would like.

if you break it up, it is my job and last name. My last name is Kastoll, you can figure out the rest. In San Diego, you see my colleagues in green uniforms pretty much everywhere.