Fishing definitions beginning with O

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Refers to the color and or clarity of the water. The normal off-color conditions include brown or mud-stained such as from runoff, green from algae or algae blooms and brown from tannic acid.
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Browse Related Terms: acidity, Alkalinity, pH

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Lake classification used to describe young bodies of water characterized by deep, clear, cold, weedless water that can support fish, such as trout.
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Browse Related Terms: Hypothermia, Lateral line, mesotrophic, stream, Watershed

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A typical or standard spinning reel in which the line comes off the fixed spool in loops and there is no nose cone.
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Browse Related Terms: anti-reverse, backlash, Bail, baitcasting, free spool, or free-spool, spin-casting, spin-cast, spincaster, spinning, Spinning reel

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Minnows, insects, worms, fish eggs, cut bait, cheese or similar substances.
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Browse Related Terms: bait, Bait restrictions, Bite, bite indicator, dip bait, doughball, Gizit, Power Bait, Power Worms, Power Craw, Power Eggs, Power Grubs, Power Worms, ROE, salmon eggs, slush bait, stink bait, water dog

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The ear bone of a fish. The age of a fish can be determined by counting the layers in the otolith, much like the rings of a tree.
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Browse Related Terms: Acre-foot, air bladder, Epilimnion, Fall overturn, stratification, swim bladder, thermocline, turnover

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The outside line of a creek channel or grass bed. For underwater structure, it can also refer to the outside line of a submerged wash or arroyo.
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Browse Related Terms: brushline, drop-off, Edge, Edge effect, inside bend, weed line

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To cast a lure, fly or bait beyond the aimed-for target.
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Browse Related Terms: back cast (n.) or back-cast, bank-fishing, bank-fish, blind cast, false-casting, false-cast, fan cast, flutterbait, fly-casting, fly-cast, rollcast, Sight-cast, sight-casting, sight-fish, sight-fishing, spook, Super Duper

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Fishing pressure beyond which a sustainable population of fish or stocking effort can be maintained.
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Browse Related Terms: balance, nares, Overpopulated (overcrowded), Recruitment, Spawning, tagging

Overpopulated (overcrowded) - permalink - collapse

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A term that describes a fish population where too many fish are present for the amount of available food. In such a population, the fish are thin and undesirable to anglers.
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Browse Related Terms: balance, nares, over-fishing, Recruitment, Spawning, tagging

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A U-shaped bend in a river or stream. If isolated, they can be referred to as an oxbow lake.
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Browse Related Terms: channel, clearwater, floating or float fishing, Lotic, riverbank, riverbed, slough, streambed, tributary, tubing

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