Thread: What as a LY?

Vernacular being what it may; somebody, somewhere, somehow started using the term "LY" in reference to Scaled Sardines.

It likely transpired like this:
circa 1960s on a gulf coast pier...
A group of tourists walks out on the pier and observes resident fishers trying to catch mackerel.
"Aye-ya" says one of the tourists. "I see yous guys using alewives for bait like we do in New England."
"LYs?" says one of the locals with a spit of tobacca juice. "I don't know nuthin bout no LYs. But son, dat dere is a minner."

And the phrase is coined. :headbang:


Now what I wanna know is who in the wide world of sports invented that red ribbon rig? ???

I wonder the something about the ribbon rig..wonder how they found out there like red? maby they had red swimming trunks and they attacked it HAHA

And are we the only place that uses red ribbons? I have never seen them on any other pier.

: gillnets are illegal in florida

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: gillnets are illegal in florida
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Well played.

glad that your back for good bubba :headbang: we need to hit navarre together sometime, i'l be there tomorrow

[size=12pt]Peaches, I just noticed your cool signature, maybe you should have some warning labels made to slap on your kings when you give ’em away. oke1:
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“Give a googan a king, and he can eat for a day. But teach a googan how to kingfish, and he'll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years”

[quote author=LugNut link=topic=1047.msg10122#msg10122 date=1336145316]
Now ya talkin my language, I wouldn't know a "Halichoeres bivittatus" if you hit me in the face with it. :banana:
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Now that is a good one.

I heared that many years ago, some gillnetter dude came home from slaughtering fish all night and found his ol lady wearing a bright red negligee in bed with his pier fishing neighbor.
The netter kilt his ol lady and wrapped her red negligee clad body in a old gillnet and dumped her in the Gulf the next night close to a gulf coast fishing pier.
Her lover, the pier fisherman incidentally hooked into the gillnet while fishing for kings. When he was finally able to reel in his catch, he saw her body still wearing the red negligee wrapped in the net.
He started yelling; “ Look at all those bait fish gilled in that net, it must be the red fabric they are after!”
Thus my friends is how idea for the red ribbon rig was born.
It is unclear as to exactly who created the first prototype, but some say it was the gillnetter in order to raise money for a defense attorney.
Fact or Fiction, who knows?

Many great inventions were an accident.
Or, like the weedeater, someone said, "Huh. look at that chit. I wonder what would happen if.....Well, I'll be danged....."