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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.
- Browse Related Terms: acidity, Alkalinity, dissolved oxygen, eutrophic, lake zones, light intensity, off-color, pH, seine net, stained
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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.
- Browse Related Terms: air bladder, BAR, Benthic, broodfish, freshwater, Hypothermia, Lateral line, mesotrophic, Oligotrophic, Stocked, stream, swim bladder, Wild fish
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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.
- Browse Related Terms: anti-reverse, backlash, Bail, bow-fishing, cane pole, drag, drop shot, free spool, or free-spool, open-faced reel, spin-casting, spin-cast, Spinning reel
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Minnows, insects, worms, fish eggs, cut bait, cheese or similar substances.
- Browse Related Terms: artificial lures and flies, California rig or California-rigged, chum, holding area, hump, Lure, night crawler, organic baits, pattern, worm-fishing (worm-fisherman)
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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.
- Browse Related Terms: cold front, cosmic clock, Epilimnion, front, otolith, post front, Stratification, 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.
- Browse Related Terms: channel, drop-off, inside bend, outside bend, riverbank, riverbed, shoal, streambed
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Fishing pressure beyond which a sustainable population of fish or stocking effort can be maintained.
- 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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To cast a lure, fly or bait beyond the aimed-for target.
- Browse Related Terms: back cast (n.) or back-cast, bank-fishing, bank-fish, blind cast, dapping, false-casting, false-cast, fan cast, flipping, flutterbait, fly-casting, fly-cast, overcast, presentation, rollcast, Sight-cast, sight-casting, sight-fish, sight-fishing, skipping, spook
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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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A U-shaped bend in a river or stream. If isolated, they can be referred to as an oxbow lake.
- Browse Related Terms: Backwater, buffalofish, clearwater, desert sucker, Fishery, floating or float fishing, Lees Ferry, Lotic, oxbow, re-stocking, reservoir, Slough, smallmouth bass, stocking, Tributary, tubing