It is hard to know the context of your question, but I think you might be asking because you have read "Once to the Lake," by E.B. White. In that essay he says,
"I have since become a salt-water man, but sometimes in summer there are days when the restlessness of the tides and the fearful cold of the sea water and the incessant wind which blows across the afternoon and into the evening make me wish for the placidity of a lake in the woods" (White).
He is saying that as a child his father took him to a fresh water lake for a summer vacation. The story recounts the memories of that summer and that lake. In saying that he has since become a "salt water man," he is simply saying that he doesn't spend much time on fresh water anymore, like he did that summer. He is also making the distinction between seas and lakes, two different types of water. The sea is restless and the lake is more calm. Lakes are most often fresh water, and seas are salt water.
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