Maybe the nickname could be birdie, for bird nests, sound like a eagle nested in your reel while you weren't looking.
tono had the same issue with a huge birdnest after he sunk three trebles into the side of my heaqd out barra fishing, what mess it made of his line, it was my only payback for having my hat stuck to my head with fishing hooks, didn't hurt as much as I thought it would when the hooks came out, god bless the pliers...