NEW YORK – Errol Spence Jr. posed an amusing question to Terence Crawford while Crawford continued to use fishing metaphors to promote their welterweight showdown next month.

As Crawford began to answer a question from Showtime’s Brian Custer, Spence interrupted his rival with his most entertaining lines of their back-to-back press conferences in Beverly Hills, California and Manhattan on Tuesday and Wednesday.

“Man, that’s cap,” Spence said while seated on stage at Palladium Times Square. “He’s not catchin’ me wit no fishing pole, man. I’m the biggest. You can’t catch me with no fishing pole. What it look like catching Moby Dick wit a f------ fishing pole, man? Get the f--- outta here, bruh.”

Crawford smiled and finished his fishing analogy.

“Man, they all been caught before,” Crawford said. “Every last one of ‘em. And July 29th, he gonna be caught, too. I got a big enough hook for him, and I’m already reeling him in. July 29th, I’mma put him on a bank. I’mma put him on a bank, I’mma gut him and I’mma filet him, like I said.”

The unbeaten WBO welterweight champion is an avid fisherman. Crawford’s repeated references to catching Spence like a fish are plays on Spence once calling himself “the big fish” in the 147-pound division when he was asked about boxing Crawford.

The Omaha, Nebraska native feels he has already “caught” Spence simply by getting the undefeated IBF/WBA/WBC welterweight champion to agree to fight him.

“We gonna catch him,” Crawford said. “Well, matter of fact, we already caught him. We just reelin’ him in right now. And July 29th, that’s when we gonna get him to the bank. Probably weigh him, you know, put him on a scale, chop his head off, cut him from, you know, the gut, the little butt, up. You know what I mean? Take the little vice grips, pull his skin off. Take the little knife [makes cutting sound]. It’s good.”

Crawford concluded by making Spence’s father, Errol Spence Sr., part of his fishing references.

“Y’all like fish?,” Crawford asked the assembled media. “How many of y’all like fish? I bet your pops like fish, too. You like fish, don’t you, pops? Come on, you can say you like fish. You know what I mean? Your son the big fish, so he love fish, too. You know, so, we gonna, you know what I mean, we gonna give his pops a piece of decent fish, too.”

Crawford, 35, and Spence, 33, will headline Showtime Pay-Per-View’s four-bout broadcast July 29 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas ($84.99; 8 p.m. EDT; 5 p.m. PDT). Unless they settle for a draw or no-contest, Crawford (39-0, 30 KOs) or Spence (28-0, 22 KOs) will become boxing’s first fully unified welterweight champion of the four-belt era.

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.