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Marking or attached a tag to an individual or group of individual fish so that it can be identified on recapture. Tagging is used by a biologist to study the movement, migration, population size or activity patterns of fish.
- 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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Compact, lead-bodied lures with one or two spinner blades attached to the tail and a treble hook suspended from the body.
- Browse Related Terms: angleworm, Barb, barbless, bobber, break-off, disgorger, fishhook, foul-hook, in-line spinner, leadhead, lead-head, slow roll or slow rolling, snagging, stinger-hook, tail-spinners, trailer hook, Treble, treble hook, weedguard
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A term describing the point where boats are taken out of the water at the end of a float trip.
- Browse Related Terms: black bass, bluebird skies, brownie, bucketmouth, catfish, downlake, downriver, downshore, and downstream, downcurrent, earthworm, electro-fishing, electro-fish, electro-shocking, forage, hawg, honey hole, lunker, professional overrun, take-out, weigh-in, yellow cat
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A scientist who classifies fish or animal by kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, and species.
- 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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Angling equipment, excluding artificial baits, attached to the end of a fishing line; examples include hooks, snaps, swivels, snap-swivels, sinkers, floats, and plastic beads.
The hooks, weights, swivels, and other tackle attached on or near the end of the fishing line.
- 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
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Things of the land.
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Line strength as stated on the label.
- Browse Related Terms: Anadromous, Fry, larva, nares, PFD, Recruitment, Sac fry, Smolt, Test, Topminnow, young-of-the-year
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The method of securing a hook to a soft-plastic bait, such as a worm, lizard or crawfish, so that the hook is weedless (doesn't protrude). Typically, a slip sinker (often a bullet sinker) is threaded onto the line and then a hook is tied to the end of the fish line. The hook (often an offset hook) is inserted into the head of the soft-plastic bait for about one-quarter of an inch and brought through until only the eye is still embedded in the soft-plastic bait. The hook is then rotated and the point is embedded slightly into the body of the soft-plastic worm without coming out the opposite side. Many anglers try to ensure the bait stays straight once it is Texas-rigged.
- 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
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The layer of water where temperature rapidly changes from warmer to colder water.
A distinct layer of water where rising warm and sinking cold water meet but do not mix. It is a layer of water where the temperature changes at least one-half a degree per foot of depth. In many of our desert bass lakes, a thermocline often develops during the spring and breaks down in the fall. The colder layer of water is often lacking in oxygen, forcing most baitfish and sport-fish to the upper layer of water. Thermoclines can be so dense that they actually show up on sonar (fish finders and depth finders) as a thick, impenetrable line.
- Browse Related Terms: cold front, cosmic clock, Epilimnion, front, otolith, post front, Stratification, Thermocline, turnover
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The most common baitfish in Arizona's warmwater lakes.
- 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 lure with short, rapid side-to-side movement. Typically used when fish are more active in spring, summer and fall.
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Line guide at the tip end of a fishing rod.
- 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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See mosquitofish.
- Browse Related Terms: Anadromous, Fry, larva, nares, PFD, Recruitment, Sac fry, Smolt, Test, Topminnow, young-of-the-year
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The technique of using topwater lures for catching fish, especially bass at the water's surface. Topwater lures are floating hard baits or plugs that create some degree of surface disturbance during the retrieve, typically mimicking struggling or wounded baitfish on the surface.
- Browse Related Terms: buzzing, chugger, jerkbait, jigging spoon, lipless crankbaits, popper, slush bait, stick bait, swimming lures, topwater, triggering
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The extra hook or cheater hook added to a single-hook lure, such as a spinnerbait or weedless spoon. Also called a stinger hook.
- Browse Related Terms: angleworm, Barb, barbless, bobber, break-off, disgorger, fishhook, foul-hook, in-line spinner, leadhead, lead-head, slow roll or slow rolling, snagging, stinger-hook, tail-spinners, trailer hook, Treble, treble hook, weedguard
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A device that converts electrical energy to sound energy, or the reverse. Typically associated with depth finders or fish finders.
- Browse Related Terms: back-trolling, baitwell, doodlesock or doodlesocking, Downrigger, livebox, livewell, long-lining, transducer, trolling, trolling motor
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These are where one type of bottom material or structure changes to another, for instance, a rock pile to solid rock, or sand to gravel. There can also be transition zones, such as mud lines where a river enters a lake. Fish can often be found in transition zones.
- 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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A hook with three points used on many lures.
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A hook with a single or bundled shaft and three points.
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A creek, stream, or river that feeds a larger stream or river, or lake.
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