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A weighted jig with light, fluffy feathers attached to the body.
- Browse Related Terms: buzzbait, jig, jig-and-pig or jig-n-pig, jig-fishing, jig-fish, marabou jig, mini-jig, spider jig, spinnerbait
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A small plastic buoy, often fluorescent color that is tossed into the water to mark a fish holding area or a school of fish. Such buoys are popular for those fishing schooling sport-fish, such as crappie, white bass, or striped bass, in open water.
- Browse Related Terms: Bass, bluegill or bluegills, Cube' powder, damselfly, game fish or game-fish, IGFA, marker buoy, nongame fish, pan fish, Parr, parr marks, pike, redd, Sporting, strain, Taxonomist, warmwater
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A fishing regulation which protects larger fish. Fish at or above stated size must be released.
- Browse Related Terms: baitfish, Catch and release, fisherman, Game fish, Harvestable-sized fish, Maximum size limit, Minimum size limit, Nongame, selective harvest, Slot limit, Spawning
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A small aquatic fly that is an important food for trout, which means it is also important for fly-anglers.
- 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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Small beetle larvae often used for catching crappies or sunfish.
- Browse Related Terms: caddis fly, dillys, dobsonfly, hellgramite, Mealworms, nymph, water dog
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A brand name in-line spinner.
- Browse Related Terms: A.C. Plug, Bomber Long "A", Gamakatsu, Gizit, Hopkins spoons, KastMaster, Mepps spinners, Panther Martins, Pencil Poppers, Pop-R, Power Bait, Power Worms, Power Craw, Power Eggs, Power Grubs, Power Worms, Rapala, Rat-L-Trap, Rooster Tails, Shad Rap, Super Duper, Z-ray, Zara Puppy, Zara Spook, Zara Pooch
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A lake classification describing middle-aged bodies of water between oligotrophic (young) and eutrophic (old) classifications. It is a body of water with a moderate amount of dissolved nutrients.
- Browse Related Terms: air bladder, BAR, Benthic, broodfish, freshwater, Hypothermia, Lateral line, mesotrophic, Oligotrophic, Stocked, stream, swim bladder, Wild fish
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The path followed by bass or other fish when moving from one area to another.
- Browse Related Terms: amur, bottom feeder or bottom-fish, carp, dink, Grass carp, Hatchery, migration route, stragglers, White amur
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Surface-growing aquatic plants.
- Browse Related Terms: algae, Ecosystem, Food chain, gill, Habitat, milfoil, monofilament, Niche, plankton, Plankton bloom, Riparian zone, Rotenone, Smoltification, Species, Wetland, zooplankton
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A small leadhead jig, usually 1/16- or 1/32-ounce, often used for catching crappie or sunfish.
- Browse Related Terms: buzzbait, jig, jig-and-pig or jig-n-pig, jig-fishing, jig-fish, marabou jig, mini-jig, spider jig, spinnerbait
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A fishing regulation which protect smaller fish. Fish not meeting the minimum size must be released.
- Browse Related Terms: baitfish, Catch and release, fisherman, Game fish, Harvestable-sized fish, Maximum size limit, Minimum size limit, Nongame, selective harvest, Slot limit, Spawning
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Short for monofilament fishing line.
- Browse Related Terms: attractant, bait, cowbells, crankbait, loose-action plug, mono, short strike, tight-action plug, weedless
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A single, untwisted, synthetic filament.
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The four phases or quarters of the moon are usually what the fisherman is concerned with. Generally, the bad times in a month occur three days prior and three days after the full moon or new moon. The first-quarter and second-quarter periods are considered as the good moon times.
- Browse Related Terms: Action, angling, dabbing, die-off, dip net, feeding times, holding station, inactive fish, moon times, put-and-take
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The common name of Gambusia affinis (Baird and Gunther). A small fish found in practically all ponds. Also known as topminnow, it reaches a size of up to 3 inches, inhabits shallow water and feeds on mosquito larvae and plankton.
- 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