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A life stage of young fish where the food sac has not been completely absorbed.
- Browse Related Terms: Anadromous, Fry, larva, nares, PFD, Recruitment, Sac fry, Smolt, Test, Topminnow, young-of-the-year
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A thin piece of land that extends out (sometimes an extended point) from the shoreline and connects to an island (sometimes underwater), reef or a hump. Submerged saddles can hold lots of fish.
- Browse Related Terms: bay, cove, drawdown, ledge, Lentic, pocket, saddle, Terrestrial, water column, Watershed, Winter-kill
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A type of egg bait typically used for trout fishing.
- 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 wet fly designed to look like a small aquatic worm that was popularized on the San Juan River in New Mexico, but is also used at Lees Ferry, the Lower Salt River and other riverine trout fisheries.
- 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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A brand of soft-plastic lure that resembles a shad.
- Browse Related Terms: Bass Assassin, Belly Boat, Crickhopper, Curly Tail, curly-tailed grub, Dardevle, Devle Dog, doll Fly, Sassy Shad, Slug-Go
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A rectangular fishing net designed to hang vertically in the water, the ends being drawn together to encircle fish.
- Browse Related Terms: acidity, Alkalinity, dissolved oxygen, eutrophic, lake zones, light intensity, off-color, pH, seine net, stained
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Deciding to release or keep fish based on species, size, relative abundance, or culinary plans.
- 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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Any of several species of forage fish that have a rather deep body. In Arizona, the most common is the threadfin shad.
- 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 name crankbait.
- 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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Common name for Lepomis microlophus (Gunther), also called redear sunfish 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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A member of the shiner family often used for bait. The most common in Arizona is the gold shiner.
- 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 submerged ridge, bank, or bar.
- Browse Related Terms: channel, drop-off, inside bend, outside bend, riverbank, riverbed, shoal, streambed
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When a fish hits at a lure and misses it.
- Browse Related Terms: attractant, bait, cowbells, crankbait, loose-action plug, mono, short strike, tight-action plug, weedless
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The technique of casting and fishing when the fish are spotted first.
- 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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The legal length a fish must be is it is in possession (kept). Some fisheries have slot limits, where fish in the specified slot size range cannot be possessed.
- Browse Related Terms: creel limit, Daily catch and possession limits, fingerling, keeper, limit-out, possession limit, size limit, Size limits, slot
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Fishing regulations which limits anglers to keep fish based upon size.
- Browse Related Terms: creel limit, Daily catch and possession limits, fingerling, keeper, limit-out, possession limit, size limit, Size limits, slot
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A method of suing small lures and casting them hard and at a low angle to the water to make them skip, like a flat stone.
- 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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The loose line from the tip of the rod to the lure. This can be a slight bow in the line to an excess of line lying on the water. The opposite is fishing with a tight line, such as when using a drop shot outfit.
- 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
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A float rigged with a tin stop or bead on the line to make it stop at a pre-determined depth.
- Browse Related Terms: Carolina rig or Carolina-rigged, Florida rig, grub, pick-up, slip-float, Split shot, split-shotting, Terminal tackle, Texas rig (Texas-rigged), Westy Worm