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Ambush: Is the act of a fish concealing its self to attack its prey. [more]
Amphibians: Amphibians breath in water as juveniles and grow into an air breathing adult. They must have four limbs and lay there eggs in water. [more]
Anal Fins: [more]
Bait Fish: Bait Fish are small fish caught for use as bait to attract large predatory fish, paticularly game fish. Species used are typically those that are common and breed rapidly, making them easly to cath and are in regular supply. [more]
Banks: Banks are cmmonly known as the ground along the edge of a water system such as creeks, streams, rivers, and lakes. Banks can also refer to sandbars and raised sea beds. [more]
Bars: A landforrm within or extending into a body of water, typically composed of sand, silt, or small pebbles. [more]
Bite: When a fish sips in the bait on the hook.
Black Bass [more]
Bluegill [more]
Bobber [more]
Brackish: Water that has more salt then fresh water, but not as much as seawater. [more]
Bronze Back [more]
Brown Trout [more]
Bug Repellent: Used to keep bugs away. {purchase}
Bullhead [more]
Buoyancy Aid: A buoyancy Aid is used to assist a person stay afloat in water. [purcahse]
Byssus Thread: The filaments created by mollusks to attach themselves to hard substrates. [more]
Carp [more]
Catch and Release: Catch and Releaase is a pracitce to help ensure the future of fishing. This technique is intended to be a conservation act. By not keeping ass the fish an Angler catches, the future of the species is ensured. The fish are unhooked and returned to the water as quickly as possible without exhaustion or injury. The best method is to use barbless hooks and releasing the fish with out removing them from the water. [more]
Catfish [more]
Caudel Fins: The tail fin of a fish. [more]
Chinook Salmon [more]
Coho Salmon [more]
Cover [more]
Crappie [more]
Crayfish: Crayfish, Crawfish, or Crawdads all resemle small lobsters which make sense since they are related. They breath through feather like gills and are found in waters that do not freeze solid to the bottom. [more]
Ciscoes [more]
Crustaceans [more]
Cyprind Fish: Cyprinid Fish consist of Carps, and Minnows. They are the largest family of fresh water fish with over 2,400 species.
Dorsal Fins: A dorsal fin is a fin located on the backs of some fish. [more]
Downstream: Downstream means away from the source of a stream or river: [more]
Drop offs: Points in which the bottom of a body of water declines sharply.
Dry Fly: An artificail fly that floats. [more]
Earth Worms: Earth Worms are an elongated soft-bodied invertebrate animal. [more]
Energy Foods {more}
Fins: These usually serve as a means for a fish to swim. Fins can also be used for gliding ar crawling, as seen in the flying fish. [more]
Fish Gloves [purchase]
Filter Feeders: Animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water. [more]
Flippin [more]
Floats: A float is attached to the line above the bait. Its purpose is to suspend the bait at different levels in the water. It also acts as a signal whne a ish bites the bait. [more]
Float Tube: A tube usually made of rubber and filled with air used to keep an Angler above water while floating in a body of water. {purchase}
Fly Line: A plastic or poymer-coated line that gives anglers the necessary weight to cast the fly out from tehe bank. [more]
Forage: The act of animals and other organiusmus seeking out food.
Forage Fish: Forage Fish are small fish which are preyed on by larger predators for food. Predators includde other larger fish, seabirds, and marine mammals. [more]
Free Swimming: Refers to the ability to move spontaneously and actively. [more]
Game Fish: Game Fish are fish pursued foa as a recreaction. [more]
Gloves: {purcahse}
Golden Shiners: The Golden Shiner is a cyprind fish native to Eastern America. In the wild the Golden Shiner is usually between 3 to 5 inches long. There back is dark green or olive, and thee belly is a silvery white. There sides are silver in smaller individuals, but golden in larger ones. [more]
Ground Bait: Bait used to attract fish into an area usally packed into balls. This bait can be the same as the hook bait, or breadcrumbs with flavourings and scents. [more]
Habitat: Habitat is an area that is inhabeited by particular animal or plant. [more]
Hats {purcahse}
Hicking Chairs: Small compack light weight chairs that can be easily carried. {purchase}
Hook Length:A length of fine line, usually around thrree feet, used to connect the hook to the stronger main line.
Imbedded Scales [more]
Invertebrates: An invertebrate is an animal lacking a vertebral column. [more]
Helias [more]
Jigs: A jig consists of a lead sinker with a hook affixed to it and covered by a soft body to attract fish. Jigs create a jerky wertical motion. [more]
Largemouth Bass [more]
Larvae: Is a young (juvenile) form of an aniaml with indirect development, going through or undergoing metamorphosis (for example, insects, amphibians, or cnidarians). [more]
Leader: This is a lenght of nylon line that attaches the heavy fly line to the artifcail fly. It is tapered, thicker near the fly line and thinner toward the fly itself. The leasder is generally about the lenght of the rod.
Ledge Weight: a piece of lead that can vary in shap and is attached to the line. Its purpose is to take the bait quickly down to the bottom and keep it ther. [more]
Lie [more]
Log Jam: A log jam is an accumulation of large debris (logs more than four inches in diameter and over six feet long) that can span an entire stream or river channel. [more]
Maxilla: The Maxilla is a fussion of two bones along the palatal fissure that form the upper jaw. [more]
Minnow: A small freshwater fish. [more]
Mollusk [more]
Muskie [more]
Night Crawlers: Nightcrawlers are a form of Earthworm. They are generally known as either Canadian or European. Canadian night crawlers can grow up to 14 inches in lentgh. [more]
Nocturnal: Nocturnal refers to animals and other organisums that are active at night and dorment duroing the daylight hours. [more]
Northern Pike [more]
Nymphing: Using an artificial fly that looks like a real Nymph. [more]
Orbit: The orbital bone is the cavity or socket in the skull in which the eye is situated. [more]
Palatal: The Palatal is the roof of the mouth. [more]
PAH: PAHs occur in oil, coal, and tar deosits, and are produced as byproducts of fuel burning (whether fossil fuel or biamass). As a pollutant, they are of concern because some compounds have been identified as carcinogenic.[more]
PCB's: PCB production was banned in the 1970s due to the high toxicity of most PCB congerners and mixtures. PCBs are classified as persistent organic pollutants which bioaccumulate in animals. [more]
Pectoral Fins: The paired Pectoral fins are located on each side of a fish. [more]
Pelvic Fins [more]
Perch [more]
Phytoplankton: Phytoplankton are the autotrophic component of the plankton community. [more]
Plankton: Plankton consist of any drifting organisms (animal, plants, archaea, or bacteria) that inhibit the pelagic zone of oceans, seas or bodies of fresh water. [more]
Plastic Worms: Plastic worms are used to simulate live worms when fishing. They come in a variety of colors and are generally made from synthetic polymers. [more]
Points: Points are pieces of land that extend into a body of water. They are nearly surrounded by water but are connected to the mainland. [more]
Pole. Fishin poles vary in length but are often 30 feet or more in length. There are no guides or reels. TYhe line is attached one end to a ring at the top of the pole ant the other tied to a float. The float and biat are flicked out, and small fish that are caught are swung in with out being played. [more]
Popper [more]
Pre-baiting: Pre-baiting is the action of taking samp;les of the type of bait to be fished with and adding it to the water each day for several days prior to fishing the area. The concept is to have crafty fish become relaxed around the bait, and even to seek it out.
Predation [more]
Predators: Predators are animals that hunt and feed on other living organisms or prey. The act of predation always results in the death of the prey. [more]
Prey: Prey are organissms attacked and eaten by other organisms.
Prodigious [more]
Prolific [more]
Pseudofeces: A way that filter-feeding mollusks get rid of suspended particles which have been rejected as unsuitable for food. The rejected particles are wrapped in mucuc, and expelled without having passed through the digestive tract. [more]
Rain Gear: Rain Gear is used to stay dry when out in damp wheater. {purcahse}
Rainbow Trout [more]
Reefs: A reef is a rock, sandbar, or other feature lying beneath the surface of the water (six fathoms or less at low water. [more]
Rise: The act of a trout comming to the surface and sipping in an insect.
Riverchannels: a channel is also the natural or man-made deeper course througha reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water. [more]
Run: The action of a fish picking up the baite and swimming away with it.
Salamanders: Salamander is a common name of about 500 species of amphibians. They are typically characterized by their slender bodies, short noses, and long tails. Most salamanders have four toes on the front legs and five on their rear legs. Some species spend there entire life underwater. [more]
Saline Water: Saline water is general a term for water that contains a significant concentration of dissolved salts. [more]
Shad [more]
Sight Fishing: Stalking and casting to an individual ish that you have seen. [more]
Shiner: Shiner is a common name used for any of several kinds of small, usually silvery fish. [more]
Smallmouth Bass [more]
Spawning: Spawning is the production of deposting of large quantities of eggs in water. The process is done by aquatic animals as amphibians and fish. [more]
Spawning flats: Spawning flats are bottom areas of bodies of water were fish spawn. For Bass and many other species of fish, these areas have flat sandy bottoms.
Species: Commonly a species is a group of organism capable of interbreeding and producing offspring. [more]
Spotted Bass [more]
Split Shot: A piece of metal put on the line beneath the float. These were traditional made of lead with a split down the center. The line is placed in the split and then the shot is squeezed closed. [more]
Strike: The act of a fish sucking its prey into its mouth. [more]
Striped Bass (Hybird Bass)
Structure: Structure is any animal or man made object that is fixed to the earths surface. In rewgards to fishing it refers to objects below the water line. [more]
Sun Glasses {purcahse}
Sunfish [more]
Swim: A particular area of water chosen by a Angler to groundbait. A swim is often close to a feature such as lily beds or deeper water. [more]
Swim Feeder: A small feeder made of plastic and put on the line, somewhere just above the hook lenght. It contains samples of the hook bait and dribbles out samples once the feeder has hit the bottom of a body of water.
Tippet: The last yard or so of the cast leading to toward the fly.
Thermocline: The thermocline is a thin but distinct layer in a large body of fluid, in which temperature changes more rapidly with depth than it does in the layers above or bleow. Thermoclines may be a semipermanent feature of the body of water in which they occur, ot they may form temporarily in respose to phenomena such as the radiative heating/cooling of surface water during the day/night. Factors that affect the depth and thickness of a thermocline include seasonal weather variations, latitude, and local environmental conditions, such as tides ans currents. [more]
Trotting: Allowing the current to take your float along the river, thus exploring a great deal of water.
Trout [more]
Veliger [more]
Wading Stick: A wading stick is used to help an Angler keep his/her balance while walking in a current. {purchase}
Walleye [more]
Water Birds: The biological family that includes ducks, geese, and swans. These are birds that are equipped for swimming, floating on the water surface, and iin some cses diving. [more]
Water Stratification: Water Stratification occurs when water of high and low salinity, s well as cold and warm water (thermocline), forms layers that act as barriers to water mixing. [more]
Wet Fly: An artificial fly that sinks. [more]
White Bass [more]
Zooplankton: Zooplankton are the heterotrophic (sometimes detritivorous) type of plankton. [more]
Amphibians: Amphibians breath in water as juveniles and grow into an air breathing adult. They must have four limbs and lay there eggs in water. [more]
Anal Fins: [more]
Bait Fish: Bait Fish are small fish caught for use as bait to attract large predatory fish, paticularly game fish. Species used are typically those that are common and breed rapidly, making them easly to cath and are in regular supply. [more]
Banks: Banks are cmmonly known as the ground along the edge of a water system such as creeks, streams, rivers, and lakes. Banks can also refer to sandbars and raised sea beds. [more]
Bars: A landforrm within or extending into a body of water, typically composed of sand, silt, or small pebbles. [more]
Bite: When a fish sips in the bait on the hook.
Black Bass [more]
Bluegill [more]
Bobber [more]
Brackish: Water that has more salt then fresh water, but not as much as seawater. [more]
Bronze Back [more]
Brown Trout [more]
Bug Repellent: Used to keep bugs away. {purchase}
Bullhead [more]
Buoyancy Aid: A buoyancy Aid is used to assist a person stay afloat in water. [purcahse]
Byssus Thread: The filaments created by mollusks to attach themselves to hard substrates. [more]
Carp [more]
Catch and Release: Catch and Releaase is a pracitce to help ensure the future of fishing. This technique is intended to be a conservation act. By not keeping ass the fish an Angler catches, the future of the species is ensured. The fish are unhooked and returned to the water as quickly as possible without exhaustion or injury. The best method is to use barbless hooks and releasing the fish with out removing them from the water. [more]
Catfish [more]
Caudel Fins: The tail fin of a fish. [more]
Chinook Salmon [more]
Coho Salmon [more]
Cover [more]
Crappie [more]
Crayfish: Crayfish, Crawfish, or Crawdads all resemle small lobsters which make sense since they are related. They breath through feather like gills and are found in waters that do not freeze solid to the bottom. [more]
Ciscoes [more]
Crustaceans [more]
Cyprind Fish: Cyprinid Fish consist of Carps, and Minnows. They are the largest family of fresh water fish with over 2,400 species.
Dorsal Fins: A dorsal fin is a fin located on the backs of some fish. [more]
Downstream: Downstream means away from the source of a stream or river: [more]
Drop offs: Points in which the bottom of a body of water declines sharply.
Dry Fly: An artificail fly that floats. [more]
Earth Worms: Earth Worms are an elongated soft-bodied invertebrate animal. [more]
Energy Foods {more}
Fins: These usually serve as a means for a fish to swim. Fins can also be used for gliding ar crawling, as seen in the flying fish. [more]
Fish Gloves [purchase]
Filter Feeders: Animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water. [more]
Flippin [more]
Floats: A float is attached to the line above the bait. Its purpose is to suspend the bait at different levels in the water. It also acts as a signal whne a ish bites the bait. [more]
Float Tube: A tube usually made of rubber and filled with air used to keep an Angler above water while floating in a body of water. {purchase}
Fly Line: A plastic or poymer-coated line that gives anglers the necessary weight to cast the fly out from tehe bank. [more]
Forage: The act of animals and other organiusmus seeking out food.
Forage Fish: Forage Fish are small fish which are preyed on by larger predators for food. Predators includde other larger fish, seabirds, and marine mammals. [more]
Free Swimming: Refers to the ability to move spontaneously and actively. [more]
Game Fish: Game Fish are fish pursued foa as a recreaction. [more]
Gloves: {purcahse}
Golden Shiners: The Golden Shiner is a cyprind fish native to Eastern America. In the wild the Golden Shiner is usually between 3 to 5 inches long. There back is dark green or olive, and thee belly is a silvery white. There sides are silver in smaller individuals, but golden in larger ones. [more]
Ground Bait: Bait used to attract fish into an area usally packed into balls. This bait can be the same as the hook bait, or breadcrumbs with flavourings and scents. [more]
Habitat: Habitat is an area that is inhabeited by particular animal or plant. [more]
Hats {purcahse}
Hicking Chairs: Small compack light weight chairs that can be easily carried. {purchase}
Hook Length:A length of fine line, usually around thrree feet, used to connect the hook to the stronger main line.
Imbedded Scales [more]
Invertebrates: An invertebrate is an animal lacking a vertebral column. [more]
Helias [more]
Jigs: A jig consists of a lead sinker with a hook affixed to it and covered by a soft body to attract fish. Jigs create a jerky wertical motion. [more]
Largemouth Bass [more]
Larvae: Is a young (juvenile) form of an aniaml with indirect development, going through or undergoing metamorphosis (for example, insects, amphibians, or cnidarians). [more]
Leader: This is a lenght of nylon line that attaches the heavy fly line to the artifcail fly. It is tapered, thicker near the fly line and thinner toward the fly itself. The leasder is generally about the lenght of the rod.
Ledge Weight: a piece of lead that can vary in shap and is attached to the line. Its purpose is to take the bait quickly down to the bottom and keep it ther. [more]
Lie [more]
Log Jam: A log jam is an accumulation of large debris (logs more than four inches in diameter and over six feet long) that can span an entire stream or river channel. [more]
Maxilla: The Maxilla is a fussion of two bones along the palatal fissure that form the upper jaw. [more]
Minnow: A small freshwater fish. [more]
Mollusk [more]
Muskie [more]
Night Crawlers: Nightcrawlers are a form of Earthworm. They are generally known as either Canadian or European. Canadian night crawlers can grow up to 14 inches in lentgh. [more]
Nocturnal: Nocturnal refers to animals and other organisums that are active at night and dorment duroing the daylight hours. [more]
Northern Pike [more]
Nymphing: Using an artificial fly that looks like a real Nymph. [more]
Orbit: The orbital bone is the cavity or socket in the skull in which the eye is situated. [more]
Palatal: The Palatal is the roof of the mouth. [more]
PAH: PAHs occur in oil, coal, and tar deosits, and are produced as byproducts of fuel burning (whether fossil fuel or biamass). As a pollutant, they are of concern because some compounds have been identified as carcinogenic.[more]
PCB's: PCB production was banned in the 1970s due to the high toxicity of most PCB congerners and mixtures. PCBs are classified as persistent organic pollutants which bioaccumulate in animals. [more]
Pectoral Fins: The paired Pectoral fins are located on each side of a fish. [more]
Pelvic Fins [more]
Perch [more]
Phytoplankton: Phytoplankton are the autotrophic component of the plankton community. [more]
Plankton: Plankton consist of any drifting organisms (animal, plants, archaea, or bacteria) that inhibit the pelagic zone of oceans, seas or bodies of fresh water. [more]
Plastic Worms: Plastic worms are used to simulate live worms when fishing. They come in a variety of colors and are generally made from synthetic polymers. [more]
Points: Points are pieces of land that extend into a body of water. They are nearly surrounded by water but are connected to the mainland. [more]
Pole. Fishin poles vary in length but are often 30 feet or more in length. There are no guides or reels. TYhe line is attached one end to a ring at the top of the pole ant the other tied to a float. The float and biat are flicked out, and small fish that are caught are swung in with out being played. [more]
Popper [more]
Pre-baiting: Pre-baiting is the action of taking samp;les of the type of bait to be fished with and adding it to the water each day for several days prior to fishing the area. The concept is to have crafty fish become relaxed around the bait, and even to seek it out.
Predation [more]
Predators: Predators are animals that hunt and feed on other living organisms or prey. The act of predation always results in the death of the prey. [more]
Prey: Prey are organissms attacked and eaten by other organisms.
Prodigious [more]
Prolific [more]
Pseudofeces: A way that filter-feeding mollusks get rid of suspended particles which have been rejected as unsuitable for food. The rejected particles are wrapped in mucuc, and expelled without having passed through the digestive tract. [more]
Rain Gear: Rain Gear is used to stay dry when out in damp wheater. {purcahse}
Rainbow Trout [more]
Reefs: A reef is a rock, sandbar, or other feature lying beneath the surface of the water (six fathoms or less at low water. [more]
Rise: The act of a trout comming to the surface and sipping in an insect.
Riverchannels: a channel is also the natural or man-made deeper course througha reef, bar, bay, or any shallow body of water. [more]
Run: The action of a fish picking up the baite and swimming away with it.
Salamanders: Salamander is a common name of about 500 species of amphibians. They are typically characterized by their slender bodies, short noses, and long tails. Most salamanders have four toes on the front legs and five on their rear legs. Some species spend there entire life underwater. [more]
Saline Water: Saline water is general a term for water that contains a significant concentration of dissolved salts. [more]
Shad [more]
Sight Fishing: Stalking and casting to an individual ish that you have seen. [more]
Shiner: Shiner is a common name used for any of several kinds of small, usually silvery fish. [more]
Smallmouth Bass [more]
Spawning: Spawning is the production of deposting of large quantities of eggs in water. The process is done by aquatic animals as amphibians and fish. [more]
Spawning flats: Spawning flats are bottom areas of bodies of water were fish spawn. For Bass and many other species of fish, these areas have flat sandy bottoms.
Species: Commonly a species is a group of organism capable of interbreeding and producing offspring. [more]
Spotted Bass [more]
Split Shot: A piece of metal put on the line beneath the float. These were traditional made of lead with a split down the center. The line is placed in the split and then the shot is squeezed closed. [more]
Strike: The act of a fish sucking its prey into its mouth. [more]
Striped Bass (Hybird Bass)
Structure: Structure is any animal or man made object that is fixed to the earths surface. In rewgards to fishing it refers to objects below the water line. [more]
Sun Glasses {purcahse}
Sunfish [more]
Swim: A particular area of water chosen by a Angler to groundbait. A swim is often close to a feature such as lily beds or deeper water. [more]
Swim Feeder: A small feeder made of plastic and put on the line, somewhere just above the hook lenght. It contains samples of the hook bait and dribbles out samples once the feeder has hit the bottom of a body of water.
Tippet: The last yard or so of the cast leading to toward the fly.
Thermocline: The thermocline is a thin but distinct layer in a large body of fluid, in which temperature changes more rapidly with depth than it does in the layers above or bleow. Thermoclines may be a semipermanent feature of the body of water in which they occur, ot they may form temporarily in respose to phenomena such as the radiative heating/cooling of surface water during the day/night. Factors that affect the depth and thickness of a thermocline include seasonal weather variations, latitude, and local environmental conditions, such as tides ans currents. [more]
Trotting: Allowing the current to take your float along the river, thus exploring a great deal of water.
Trout [more]
Veliger [more]
Wading Stick: A wading stick is used to help an Angler keep his/her balance while walking in a current. {purchase}
Walleye [more]
Water Birds: The biological family that includes ducks, geese, and swans. These are birds that are equipped for swimming, floating on the water surface, and iin some cses diving. [more]
Water Stratification: Water Stratification occurs when water of high and low salinity, s well as cold and warm water (thermocline), forms layers that act as barriers to water mixing. [more]
Wet Fly: An artificial fly that sinks. [more]
White Bass [more]
Zooplankton: Zooplankton are the heterotrophic (sometimes detritivorous) type of plankton. [more]
