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Refers to fish habitat or fish that are warmwater species, such as largemouth bass, sunfish, and catfish, as opposed to coldwater species such as trout, grayling and salmon or cool-water species such as northern pike and walleye.
- 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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Vertical section of the lake.
- Browse Related Terms: bay, cove, drawdown, ledge, Lentic, pocket, saddle, Terrestrial, water column, Watershed, Winter-kill
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Any of several large salamanders (the larval or aquatic stage). They are popular as live bait.
- Browse Related Terms: caddis fly, dillys, dobsonfly, hellgramite, Mealworms, nymph, water dog
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All land area from which run-off water may enter a pond or lake.
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Abrupt edge of an aquatic weed-bed caused by a change in depth, bottom type, or other factor.
- 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 protective device on fishing hooks to prevent picking up weeds.
- 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 description of a lure designed to be fished in heavy cover with a minimum amount of snagging. Various strategies are often employed to make a lure weedless.
- Browse Related Terms: attractant, bait, cowbells, crankbait, loose-action plug, mono, short strike, tight-action plug, weedless
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Term typically applied to the weighing in of fish at a tournament.
- 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 brand name of plastic worm with a leadhead that has two exposed hooks already 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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A fly fished underwater.
- 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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Area covered all or part of the year by water. Can be identified by typical plants and soil types.
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Common name for Ctenopharyngodon idella, also called "grass carp." White amur are often stocked in ponds for weed control.
- Browse Related Terms: amur, bottom feeder or bottom-fish, carp, dink, Grass carp, Hatchery, migration route, stragglers, White amur
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A type of true bass that is only found at Lake Pleasant in Arizona. White bass are related to striped bass and yellow bass. None of these bass are native Arizona fish.
- 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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Any fish not supplied by a fish hatchery .
- Browse Related Terms: air bladder, BAR, Benthic, broodfish, freshwater, Hypothermia, Lateral line, mesotrophic, Oligotrophic, Stocked, stream, swim bladder, Wild fish
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Fish kill in shallow ponds or reservoirs due to oxygen depletion.
- Browse Related Terms: bay, cove, drawdown, ledge, Lentic, pocket, saddle, Terrestrial, water column, Watershed, Winter-kill
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A popular type of wet fly often used by fly anglers fishing lakes.
- 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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The act of using worms, either natural or man-made, to catch fish, although the term worming typically refers to the act of using artificial worms to catch fish.
- 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)