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A common term for any of the many different fishing worms, including night crawlers (two words), garden worms, leaf worms, dillys, and red wigglers.
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A complex ecological community or environment forming a functioning whole.
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The borders created by a change in the structure or vegetation in a lake. Examples are edges of tree lines, weed lines, and the edges of a drop-off.
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Where two habitat types join together resulting in increased diversity for vegetation and wildlife.
- Browse Related Terms: Backing, bag limit, Bait restrictions, bead-headed midges, Break, dry fly, Edge effect, float tube, fly, flies, Light Cahill, mayfly, night-fisherman, peacock ladies, Pro, San Juan worms, wet fly, wooly worm, or wooly bugger, zug bug
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An egg-shaped fishing weight with a hole through the center for the line to pass through.
- Browse Related Terms: bell sinker, bite, bullet sinker, culling, dip bait, doughball, egg sinker, filamentous algae, fillet, pegging, ROE, salmon eggs, slip-sinker, stink bait
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A term used to describe using electrical current to temporarily stun fish, typically during fish surveys.
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The warm layer of surface water.
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Personal code of conduct based on respect for one's self, others, and your surroundings.
- Browse Related Terms: balance, biology, Biomass, Ethics, gill net, gill-net, ichthyology, Limiting factor, Mosquitofish, over-fishing, Overpopulated (overcrowded), Pond Check, Put and take fishery, tagging, Yield limit
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Highly fertile waters characterized by warm, nutrient-rich shallow basins.
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The eyelets are the line guides or rings on a fishing rod through which line is passed.
- Browse Related Terms: angler, baitcasting, bite indicator, deer-hair bug, eyelets, finesse fishing, flipping stick, fly line, fly-line, gear, handline, line guides, Pitching, slack line, spider trolling, spincaster, spinning, tiptop, ultralight