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A member of the salmon/trout family. Rainbows are not native to Arizona.
- Browse Related Terms: anchovy or anchovies, Apache trout, brookie, brookies, brook trout, brown trout, crappie or crappies, crayfish or crawfish, cutthroat trout or cutthroat, Gila trout, grayling, live baitfish, nonnative fish, rainbow trout, rainbows, shad, shiner, striped bass, threadfin shad, white bass, yellow bass
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A brand or lures.
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A brand of lipless crankbait.
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The practice of releasing hatchery-reared fish from the hatcheries into ponds, streams, rivers, or lakes.
- 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
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The number of young fish that grow into the adult population during a specific time interval.
Natural reproduction of fish population.
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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.
The specific area where fish have deposited eggs for incubation.
- 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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Common name for Lepomis microlophus (Gunther), also called shellcracker and bream. Redear sunfish are stocked in ponds in combination with bluegill and largemouth bass.
- Browse Related Terms: Bluegill, Bream, Carrying Capacity, largemouth bass, nest, Redear sunfish, Shellcracker, Sunfish
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Artificially created lake where water is collected and stored; also called an impoundment.
Lake-like body of water created by damming of stream or river.
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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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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.
- Browse Related Terms: brushline, Cover, Edge, grayline, hard bottom, isolated structure, lake bed, lake-bed, riprap, soft bottom, Structure, Transition, weed line
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The bank or banks of a river.
- Browse Related Terms: channel, drop-off, inside bend, outside bend, riverbank, riverbed, shoal, streambed
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There area or channel between the banks through which a river flows. In Arizona, there are also dry river beds.
- Browse Related Terms: channel, drop-off, inside bend, outside bend, riverbank, riverbed, shoal, streambed
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Fish eggs
- 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 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.
- 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 brand of in-line spinner.
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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.
- Browse Related Terms: algae, Ecosystem, Food chain, gill, Habitat, milfoil, monofilament, Niche, plankton, Plankton bloom, Riparian zone, Rotenone, Smoltification, Species, Wetland, zooplankton