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Fishing - A term describing the point where boats are taken out of the water at the end of a float trip.
AZGFD - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: back-wash, bass boat, Belly Boat, drift-boating, drift-fishing, float tube, johnboat, put-in, ramp, shore-fishing, shore-fish, starboard
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Fishing - A scientist who classifies fish or animal by kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, and species.
Idaho Fish and Game - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Biomass, Cube' powder, damselfly, Parr, parr marks, redd, strain, year class
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Fishing - The hooks, weights, swivels, and other tackle attached on or near the end of the fishing line.
Idaho Fish and Game - Cite This Source - This Definition - Angling equipment, excluding artificial baits, attached to the end of a fishing line; examples include hooks, snaps, swivels, snap-swivels, sinkers, floats, and plastic beads.
AZGFD - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: bell sinker, bobber, bullet sinker, egg sinker, pegging, slip-float, slip-sinker
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Fishing - The method of securing a hook to a soft-plastic bait, such as a worm, lizard or crawfish, so that the hook is weedless (doesn't protrude). Typically, a slip sinker (often a bullet sinker) is threaded onto the line and then a hook is tied to the end of the fish line. The hook (often an offset hook) is inserted into the head of the soft-plastic bait for about one-quarter of an inch and brought through until only the eye is still embedded in the soft-plastic bait. The hook is then rotated and the point is embedded slightly into the body of the soft-plastic worm without coming out the opposite side. Many anglers try to ensure the bait stays straight once it is Texas-rigged.
AZGFD - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: California rig or California-rigged, Carolina rig or Carolina-rigged, drop shot, Florida rig, pattern, Split shot, split-shotting
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Fishing - The layer of water where temperature rapidly changes from warmer to colder water.
Idaho Fish and Game - Cite This Source - This Definition - A distinct layer of water where rising warm and sinking cold water meet but do not mix. It is a layer of water where the temperature changes at least one-half a degree per foot of depth. In many of our desert bass lakes, a thermocline often develops during the spring and breaks down in the fall. The colder layer of water is often lacking in oxygen, forcing most baitfish and sport-fish to the upper layer of water. Thermoclines can be so dense that they actually show up on sonar (fish finders and depth finders) as a thick, impenetrable line.
AZGFD - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Acre-foot, air bladder, Epilimnion, Fall overturn, otolith, stratification, swim bladder, turnover
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Fishing - The technique of using topwater lures for catching fish, especially bass at the water's surface. Topwater lures are floating hard baits or plugs that create some degree of surface disturbance during the retrieve, typically mimicking struggling or wounded baitfish on the surface.
AZGFD - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: A.C. Plug, buzzing, chugger, Pencil Poppers, Pop-R, popper, stick bait, Zara Puppy, Zara Spook, Zara Pooch
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Fishing - The extra hook or cheater hook added to a single-hook lure, such as a spinnerbait or weedless spoon. Also called a stinger hook.
AZGFD - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: angleworm, angling, barb, barbless, disgorger, fishhook, foul-hook, Gamakatsu, slow roll or slow rolling, snagging, stinger-hook, Treble, treble hook, weedguard
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Fishing - These are where one type of bottom material or structure changes to another, for instance, a rock pile to solid rock, or sand to gravel. There can also be transition zones, such as mud lines where a river enters a lake. Fish can often be found in transition zones.
AZGFD - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: benthic, Core trench, depthfinder, depth recorder, or depth sounder, Freeboard, hard bottom, riprap, soft bottom, Spillway barrier, suspended fish
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Fishing - A hook with three points used on many lures.
Idaho Fish and Game - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: angleworm, angling, barb, barbless, disgorger, fishhook, foul-hook, Gamakatsu, slow roll or slow rolling, snagging, stinger-hook, trailer hook, treble hook, weedguard
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Fishing - A hook with a single or bundled shaft and three points.
AZGFD - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: angleworm, angling, barb, barbless, disgorger, fishhook, foul-hook, Gamakatsu, slow roll or slow rolling, snagging, stinger-hook, trailer hook, Treble, weedguard
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Fishing - A creek, stream, or river that feeds a larger stream or river, or lake.
AZGFD - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: channel, clearwater, floating or float fishing, Lotic, oxbow, riverbank, riverbed, slough, streambed, tubing
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