Anglers naming fish

[kevtaylor]

Personal gripe of mine that seems to be getting popular is venues allowing the angler to name the fish.  Absolutely would not happen if it were my water, they pick the worst names, zero  imagination, 'Suzie' - my wifes name', 'Brian' - my favourite neighbour- it's a joke, what happened to the creative names from the past that reference something about the actual fish.

I'd maybe let them suggest a name - then reject if it's poor, give them one more go and that's it - maybe ban the plonker 🤣

I was looking at a picture of a cracking mid 30 German fish that was obviously the son of a famous mirror in Bluebell (almost identical), and it was given a terrible name that meant nothing whatsoever 'Kev's Mirror' or something equally poor, done my head in.

Rant over - do better lol

[jh92]

18 minutes ago, kevtaylor said:

Personal gripe of mine that seems to be getting popular is venues allowing the angler to name the fish.  Absolutely would not happen if it were my water, they pick the worst names, zero  imagination, 'Suzie' - my wifes name', 'Brian' - my favourite neighbour- it's a joke, what happened to the creative names from the past that reference something about the actual fish.

I'd maybe let them suggest a name - then reject if it's poor, give them one more go and that's it - maybe ban the plonker 🤣

I was looking at a picture of a cracking mid 30 German fish that was obviously the son of a famous mirror in Bluebell (almost identical), and it was given a terrible name that meant nothing whatsoever 'Kev's Mirror' or something equally poor, done my head in.

Rant over - do better lol

Biggest known common in our res is called nuggies common 🤣🤣

[kevtaylor]

2 minutes ago, jh92 said:

Biggest known common in our res is called nuggies common 🤣🤣

You wouldn't tell anyone that part if you caught it hey - I've just had Nuggies, they'd think you just got over a condition lol

[jh92]

8 minutes ago, kevtaylor said:

You wouldn't tell anyone that part if you caught it hey - I've just had Nuggies, they'd think you just got over a condition lol

Exactly that mate, when I'm having a chat about it, I just show them a picture of it and say this is the one I'm after 👍🤣

[elmoputney]

They name new fish over 30lb on my syndicate. I actually named one last year. 

Meet Snowball. Bonus points if you can tell where the name is from? 

 

[kevtaylor]

12 minutes ago, elmoputney said:

They name new fish over 30lb on my syndicate. I actually named one last year. 

Meet Snowball. Bonus points if you can tell where the name is from? 

 

You've got me there, no idea but creative name, much more like it 👍

[elmoputney]

Snowball was a revolutionary. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_(Animal_Farm)

 

[elmoputney]

1 hour ago, jh92 said:

Biggest known common in our res is called nuggies common 🤣🤣

I wouldn't mind catching nuggies 😂

Better than the big common or something. 

[crusian]

22 minutes ago, elmoputney said:

Snowball was a revolutionary. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_(Animal_Farm)

 

Impressive . I didn't know we had an intellectual amongst us , Elmo 😁 .

[elmoputney]

1 minute ago, crusian said:

Impressive . I didn't know we had an intellectual amongst us , Elmo 😁 .

I've read the odd book and stuff 😂

[kevtaylor]

22 minutes ago, elmoputney said:

I've read the odd book and stuff 😂

Show off 🙃

[bluelabel]

I got to name a previoisly uncaught 23lber from Talltree's in 2011... in my haste and made up on the spot it was called "Wanda"... I apologise abjectly...😛😎

[framey]

Thinking of the classic carp from years past 

ravioli/Clarissa

heather 

mary

marys mate 

Bazil

Jack

 

and some others 

measles 

toadless

arthur 

 

 

 

Edited January 30 by framey

[emmcee]

When I was on dinton one particular angler wanted to name every fish it seemed and some of the names were ludicrous.  An example of some of the names, 

Rudd mouthed linear, two sides (all Carp have 2 sides🙄),  the bay fish (because he caught it from the car park bay),  heart tail (haven't they nearly all got tails that are heart shaped in some way).  Then he would add extra names to already named fish. On dinton if you caught a new 40lber you got to name it. A mate of mine caught one but he wasn't fussed about naming it but it ended up being named after his nickname which was sid. Sid was then called sid the pig by this other angler as it put on 1lb by its next capture, it's a carp for god sake. He wasn't the first angler to add extra names to already named fish mind. A fish called The long linear became Bernies linear, astra became astra max, not that I called them that, I stuck to their original names. 

I think half of it is to name a carp for the sake of it as that angler wants to be known for naming a carp 🙄. 

There's never going to be another Mary, Black mirror, shoulders,  Heather, bazil etc , just stick to mirror, common and leather. 

Though now I do sea fishing I get to name a fair few of my fish , they are either called lunch or dinner . 

 

[yonny]

@emmcee was it BL?

You're going back a loooooong way with some of those carp names. Astra Max.... was in Tels book with some of those others.

[salokcinnodrog]

A pit and Barham fish:

Gary Linear, The Male, Stumpy, Arfur, Turbo, Titanic, The Cow.

I know the background to The Cow, she basically had a belly like a cows udders, quite short but gutty.

Stumpy the Common, when she was a double figure fish, someone dropped her and her tail and back was damaged, it looked like the bone was broken, but she recovered and made it over 20lb.

Arfur tail, pretty obvious. Turbo, fast run, fast fight and like always at full throttle. Gary Linear, a play on a famous footballer.

The Male, a known male fish.

As for Titanic, I have no idea.

Not forgetting Dippy, who was originally named so because she was regularly caught.

 

Brackens had some named fish, Digit, Rocky, Sam's, The Ghost, although the only one I know where the name came from was the Ghost. It was a pale koi looking Common and appeared like a ghost in the area.

The syndicate I'm in has a few named fish, although I'm hoping to name the big uncaught common myself.

 

I miss Heather, Bazil, and the waters and  names of that era.

 

 

[emmcee]

6 hours ago, yonny said:

@emmcee was it BL?

You're going back a loooooong way with some of those carp names. Astra Max.... was in Tels book with some of those others.

BL  was the one who renamed the long linear to bernies, just because he caught it and astra to astra max. My mate had the long linear 5 times but not once did want to rename it haha. The other angler was a yateley angler that obviously wanted to be "known". 

[mrmud]

On 30/01/2025 at 12:13, kevtaylor said:

Personal gripe of mine that seems to be getting popular is venues allowing the angler to name the fish.  Absolutely would not happen if it were my water, they pick the worst names, zero  imagination, 'Suzie' - my wifes name', 'Brian' - my favourite neighbour- it's a joke, what happened to the creative names from the past that reference something about the actual fish.

I'd maybe let them suggest a name - then reject if it's poor, give them one more go and that's it - maybe ban the plonker 🤣

I was looking at a picture of a cracking mid 30 German fish that was obviously the son of a famous mirror in Bluebell (almost identical), and it was given a terrible name that meant nothing whatsoever 'Kev's Mirror' or something equally poor, done my head in.

Rant over - do better lol

I think naming them help keep track of how many times that fish gets caught.

I've named a fish and you'd probably think it's a stupid name lol.

Called it sox.

Story goes:

Had new boots on that day and it took me into a snag so I stripped down, didn't want to sit in wet clothes for rest of day so off came the trousers n new boots n i went in to free it from the snag in my socks and pants hence the name. Thought it would be better than calling it Jeff lol

[kevtaylor]

10 hours ago, mrmud said:

I think naming them help keep track of how many times that fish gets caught.

I've named a fish and you'd probably think it's a stupid name lol.

Called it sox.

Story goes:

Had new boots on that day and it took me into a snag so I stripped down, didn't want to sit in wet clothes for rest of day so off came the trousers n new boots n i went in to free it from the snag in my socks and pants hence the name. Thought it would be better than calling it Jeff lol

I'm not against naming fish, just allowing anglers to choose - which normally goes badly.

I'll let you off with 'Sox' certainly better than 'Jeff' maybe 'The Stripper' would have been better lol 👍

Edited February 6 by kevtaylor

[Serenity]

Naming fish is anathema to me.

Way back in the early 70s, I banked a fish and before I could even unhook it a guy rushed forward and said: “That’s big [censored], my mate had it last week at 27 lb.” That episode completely spoiled the moment for me.

Naming fish and broadcasting their weight destroys what little mystery there is left in carping.

[salokcinnodrog]

23 minutes ago, Serenity said:

Naming fish is anathema to me.

Way back in the early 70s, I banked a fish and before I could even unhook it a guy rushed forward and said: “That’s big [censored], my mate had it last week at 27 lb.” That episode completely spoiled the moment for me.

Naming fish and broadcasting their weight destroys what little mystery there is left in carping.

Darenth Valley?

Annoyingly the name comes up as censored, but I think I know the fish you mean. A heavily gutted fish with a recessed line down the keel line, and yes, it looked like a pair of testes in the scrotum.

 

I agree and disagree. As I've mentioned above we do have some named fish in the syndicate lake, but we also have mystery with uncaught fish and how quickly the stock fish have put weight on.

[elmoputney]

2 hours ago, kevtaylor said:

I'm not against naming fish, just allowing anglers to choose - which normally goes badly.

I'll let you off with 'Sox' certainly better than 'Jeff' maybe 'The Stripper' would have been better lol 👍

Basically Kev I think you are saying if you are going to name a fish, just make sure it's not terrible or boring. I mean you wouldn't name your kid big Lin would you 😂

Edited February 6 by elmoputney

[framey]

Sox is better than pants 👍👍

so well done on not using that one.

good job you left pants on though 

Imagine the name then..

[mrmud]

1 hour ago, framey said:

Sox is better than pants 👍👍

so well done on not using that one.

good job you left pants on though 

Imagine the name then..

Can think of a few but they'd all be censored on here lol. Probz would've had to have been called "little winkie" 🤣(was cold in early march 🤦🏽)

Didn't fancy leaving my maggot 🪱 dangling in the water especially with pike being present so I assumed it better to leave certain things covered especially my toes 😅

[kevtaylor]

18 hours ago, elmoputney said:

Basically Kev I think you are saying if you are going to name a fish, just make sure it's not terrible or boring. I mean you wouldn't name your kid big Lin would you 😂

Exactly this, if it's going to be named choose something cool.  Letting the anger choose there and then in a rush leads to the 'Kev's Mirrors' of the pond - not good 😂

Noone cares what the anglers wife is called, what's that got to do with anything - bore off!