Now when Slab comes back from a week of fishing he may want to read the definition of your latest slam.....seems to have its roots in the Marine corps.....

Robert L. Chapman, in _Dictionary of American Slang, Third Edition_ (1995), writes that "pogey" comes "perhaps fr[om] the common name of the trash fish menhaden, as suggesting something cheap, common, and to be caught with bait; perhaps fr[om] the Southern pronunciation of _porgy_, another fish of a similar quality" and "pogey bait" is "so called because they could be used in the seduction of boys and young men, _pogue_, into homosexual acts."