Fishing definitions beginning with R

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rainbow trout, rainbows - permalink - collapse

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A member of the salmon/trout family. Rainbows are not native to Arizona.
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Browse Related Terms: Apache trout, brookie, brookies, brook trout, brown trout, crayfish or crawfish, cutthroat trout or cutthroat, desert sucker, Gila trout, grayling, Lees Ferry, live baitfish, nonnative fish, rainbow trout, rainbows

ramp - permalink - collapse

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Also referred to as a boat ramp or launch ramp. It is the launch-retrieve area for a boat.
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Browse Related Terms: back-wash, bass boat, Belly Boat, drift-boating, drift-fishing, float tube, johnboat, put-in, shore-fishing, shore-fish, starboard, take-out

Rapala - permalink - collapse

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A brand or lures.
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Browse Related Terms: dabbing, loose-action plug, short strike, tight-action plug

Rat-L-Trap - permalink - collapse

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A brand of lipless crankbait.
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Browse Related Terms: Bomber Long "A", crankbait, lipless crankbaits, Shad Rap, swimming lures, triggering, weedless

Recruitment - permalink - collapse

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Natural reproduction of fish population.
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The number of young fish that grow into the adult population during a specific time interval.
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Browse Related Terms: balance, nares, over-fishing, Overpopulated (overcrowded), Spawning, tagging

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redd - permalink - collapse

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The specific area where fish have deposited eggs for incubation.
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An individual nest or depression in the gravel excavated by trout other members of the trout and salmon family for depositing eggs. Multiple redds make up a bed.
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Browse Related Terms: Biomass, Cube' powder, damselfly, Parr, parr marks, strain, Taxonomist, year class

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Redear sunfish - permalink - collapse

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Common name for Lepomis microlophus (Gunther), also called shellcracker and bream. Redear sunfish are stocked in ponds in combination with bluegill and largemouth bass.
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Browse Related Terms: bass, black bass, Bluegill, bluegill or bluegills, Bream, largemouth bass, nest, Shellcracker, Sunfish

reservoir - permalink - collapse

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Lake-like body of water created by damming of stream or river.
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Artificially created lake where water is collected and stored; also called an impoundment.
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Browse Related Terms: bay, buffalofish, drawdown, holding station, lake bed, lake-bed, ledge, Lentic, water column

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re-stocking - permalink - collapse

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The practice of releasing hatchery-reared fish from the hatcheries into ponds, streams, rivers, or lakes.
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Browse Related Terms: broodfish, Hatchery, Stocked, stocking, Wild fish

Riparian zone - permalink - collapse

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The transition zone between the water and the upland zone. Can be identified by specific types of plants and soils.
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Browse Related Terms: algae, Aquatic, gill, gill opening, habitat, milfoil, plankton, Plankton bloom, Rotenone, Species, Wetland, zooplankton

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riprap - permalink - collapse

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A man-made stretch of rocks or material of a hard composition that usually extends above and below the shoreline, often found near dams of big impoundments.
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Browse Related Terms: benthic, Core trench, depthfinder, depth recorder, or depth sounder, Freeboard, hard bottom, soft bottom, Spillway barrier, suspended fish, transition

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riverbank - permalink - collapse

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The bank or banks of a river.
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Browse Related Terms: channel, clearwater, floating or float fishing, Lotic, oxbow, riverbed, slough, streambed, tributary, tubing

riverbed - permalink - collapse

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There area or channel between the banks through which a river flows. In Arizona, there are also dry river beds.
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Browse Related Terms: channel, clearwater, floating or float fishing, Lotic, oxbow, riverbank, slough, streambed, tributary, tubing

ROE - permalink - collapse

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Fish eggs
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Browse Related Terms: bait, Bait restrictions, Bite, bite indicator, dip bait, doughball, Gizit, organic baits, Power Bait, Power Worms, Power Craw, Power Eggs, Power Grubs, Power Worms, salmon eggs, slush bait, stink bait, water dog

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rollcast - permalink - collapse

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A type of fly-casting technique in which the line is not cast above the water, but instead rolled over with the line lying on the water.
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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, overcast, Sight-cast, sight-casting, sight-fish, sight-fishing, spook, Super Duper

Rooster Tails - permalink - collapse

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A brand of in-line spinner.
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Browse Related Terms: break, break-off, in-line spinner, Mepps spinners, Panther Martins, tail-spinners

Rotenone - permalink - collapse

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A natural substance extracted from the root of certain plants, which constricts blood vessels in a fish's gills and causes suffocation.
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Browse Related Terms: algae, Aquatic, gill, gill opening, habitat, milfoil, plankton, Plankton bloom, Riparian zone, Species, Wetland, zooplankton

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