mossback

From moss + back (in senses 1 (“person with old-fashioned views; one who is very conservative or reactionary”) and 2.3 (“fish that is large and old”) probably a variant of mossyback, which is attested earlier), alluding to someone or something that is so old or has remained so unmoving that it is as if moss has grown on them or it.
Sense 2.4 (“largemouth bass”) may refer to the back of the fish being a dark green colour.

(fishing) Synonym of mossyback (“a fish that is large and old, especially one that has algae growing on its back”).


blackfish

en-verb

blackfish (third-person singular simple present blackfishes, present participle blackfishing, simple past and past participle blackfished)

blackfishes (present singular third-person)
blackfishing (participle present)
blackfished (participle past)
blackfished (past)

Earlier (Caldwell and Caldwell 1971a), we concentrated on the blackfishing at St. Vincent, the fishery with which we were most familiar, and listed known localities of fishing for blackfish and other species in the southern Caribbean.

1975, Canada. Fisheries, Marine Service, Review of Biology and Fisheries for Smaller Cetaceans, page 1106:

Long Island Sound, Block Island Sound, Rhode Island Sound, and Narragansett Bay have many spots where blackfishing is productive year after year.

1984, Field and Stream, volume 89, page xxx:

Blackfishing from the beach. I've done my research. Hundreds of shipwrecks line the Jersey coast, and many of them are close enough to reach with a long cast on a dead-low tide. These wrecks hold tautog, porgies, sea bass, flounder.

2014, Nick Honachefsky, The Jersey Surf Diaries:


hipper

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corf

From Middle English corf, borrowed from Middle Low German korf or Middle Dutch korf, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *korb.

(fishing) A container (basket, wooden box with holes etc.) used to store live fish underwater.

винтер

container used to store live fish underwater


liplock

en-noun

liplock (countable and uncountable, plural liplocks)

liplocks (plural)
lip lock (alternative)
lip-lock (alternative)

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Regardless of whatever other qualities may differentiate Sooner fishermen, they are identical in that each has spent a good part of their lives dreaming about catching one nice bass — a whopper of such bulk that the traditional thumb and forefinger liplock wouldn't be nearly enough to hoist their catch into the boat.

1991, Outdoor Oklahoma - Volumes 47-48, page 31:

(fishing) A maneuver in which a fish is hooked by a curled finger inserted under the gill cover and extending to the fish's jaw.


lip-lock

en-verb

lip-lock (third-person singular simple present lip-locks, present participle lip-locking, simple past and past participle lip-locked)

lip-locks (present singular third-person)
lip-locking (participle present)
lip-locked (participle past)
lip-locked (past)

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Never try to lip-lock a brawling bigmouth after dark.

1992, Michigan Out-of-doors - Volume 46, page 40:

If any professional angler can tell you the best way to lip-lock a lunker, it's Jimmy Houston.

2007, Field and Stream - Volume 112, page 70:

To lip-lock a fish, curl your index and middle finger, then gently slide those two fingers under the gill cover and forward toward the fish's nose, applying slight outward pressure with your fingertips until your fingers stop just under the fish's jaw.

2008, Jack Burns, Rob Kimm, Pro Tacticsᵀᴹ: Muskie, page 52:

(fishing) To hook a fish by inserting a curled finger under the gill cover and extending it to the fish's jaw.


wafter

(fishing) A semi-bouyant hookbait designed to waft just above the lakebed.


rockhopper

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(fishing) A disk on the bottom of a trawler-net that lifts when it hits a rock or bump, raising the net, preventing damage to the net or the seafloor.


highflier

highfliers (plural)
high flier (alternative)
high-flier (alternative)
high flyer (alternative)
high-flyer (alternative)
highflyer (alternative)

(fishing) A vertical pole used in commercial fishing to locate the beginning and end of a long fishing line.


double-header

double-headers (plural)
double header (alternative)
doubleheader (alternative)

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(fishing) The catching of a single fish simultaneously by two fishermen when fishing together.


bite indicator

(fishing) A float that is used by anglers that indicates the moment that a fish has taken the bait.


emerger

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(fishing) The form of an aquatic insect that is hatching or emerging; used in fly fishing.


longline

longlines (plural)
long-line (alternative)

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(fishing) Gear consisting of a long and thick mainline, with baited hooks attached at intervals by means of branch lines called snoods or gangions.

palangre

very long fishing line with multiple hooks


drift net

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(fishing) A very long fishing net, supported by floats, that drifts with the current behind a fishing boat.


ledger line

ledger lines (plural)
leger line (alternative)

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[W]hen fishing for Eels with a ledger line as well as a floated line, don't be in too much haste to strike when you see a bite, for Eels generally gorge the bait, and consequently hook themselves, if you give them time, […] I always use two hooks on my ledger, placing the top one about two feet above the bottom, and to prevent it from moving from its proper place, fix a shot above it and below it, […]

1823, T[homas] F[rederick] Salter, “Directions How to Angle for and Take the Anguilla, or Eel”, in The Angler’s Guide, Being a New, Plain and Complete Practical Treatise on the Art of Angling for Sea, River, and Pond Fish; […], 5th corrected and enlarged edition, London: Printed by R. Carpenter and Son, […], and sold for the author; by T[homas] Tegg, […], →OCLC, 1st part (Bottom Fishing), page 121:

(fishing) A fishing line used with ledger bait for bottom fishing; a ligger.


spawner

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(fishing) A female fish, often specifically a salmon, which is physiologically ready to spawn


gillnet

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(fishing) A vertical net, often resting on the sea floor, which entangles fish in the netting, frequently by the gills.

流刺網 /流刺网

a vertical net, often resting on the sea floor, which entangles fish in the netting, frequently by the gills


striper

* (device): From stripe (verb) + -er (agent noun suffix).
* (fish): From stripe (noun) + -er (relational suffix).
* (military): From stripe (noun) + -er (suffix denoting a person to whom a certain number of something applies).

suffix

er<id:agent noun><pos:agent noun suffix>

I caught a striper today.

(fishing) The striped bass, Morone saxatilis, a popular sport fish native to North America.


laydown

en-noun

laydown (countable and uncountable, plural laydowns)

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The most important thing to consider when fishing laydowns is to perfectly position your boat before making your very first cast

2007 February 7, Tim Tucker, “10 tips for fishing fallen trees”, in Bassmaster:

(fishing) A tree fallen in water, where anglers might target fish.


spinner

From Middle English spynnere; equivalent to spin + -er.

(fishing) A type of lure consisting of wire, a rotating blade, a weighted body, and one or more hooks.


split shot

split shots (plural)
split-shot (alternative)

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(fishing) A type of lead shot cut part-way through the diameter, used as a line weight in angling.


spoon lure

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(fishing) An oblong, concave lure, usually of metal or shell, shaped like the bowl of a spoon.


groundfish

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Boats catching groundfish — fish near the ocean bottom including cod, haddock and halibut — catch thousands of pounds of fish at a time.

2007 February 14, “Correction: Sea Sends Distress Call in One-Note Chowders”, in New York Times:

(fishing) Fish that swim near the seafloor


groundfish

en-verb

groundfish (third-person singular simple present groundfishes, present participle groundfishing, simple past and past participle groundfished)

groundfishes (present singular third-person)
groundfishing (participle present)
groundfished (participle past)
groundfished (past)

Earl, who has lobstered, scalloped, groundfished and run tugs most of his life, is half joking.

2004 January 1, Bob Bernstein, “Pumping out the heat”, in National Fisherman:


baitfish

en-noun

baitfish (plural baitfishes or baitfish)

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He said increased baitfish numbers after an upwelling of nutrient-rich water three years ago had contributed to the increase in shark numbers.

2009 January 13, By Malcolm Holland, “Experts track record shark numbers off beaches”, in Herald-Sun:

(fishing) Small fish such as minnows that are used as bait to catch larger predatory fish.

(fishing) Fish that can be caught using bait.


flosser

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(fishing) An angler who uses a weighted hook that pierces the fish's mouth from the outside.


snagger

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(fishing) A fishing hook consisting of several hooks radiating from a centre.


reel in

en-verb

reel in (third-person singular simple present reels in, present participle reeling in, simple past and past participle reeled in)

reels in (present singular third-person)
reeling in (participle present)
reeled in (participle past)
reeled in (past)

(fishing, transitive) To bring (a fish etc.) out of the water by winding the line on which it is caught onto a reel (e.g. of a fishing rod).


bait box

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minnower

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egi

(fishing) a type of artificial lure (used for squid)


deadstick

deadstick (third-person singular simple present deadsticks, present participle deadsticking, simple past and past participle deadsticked)

deadsticks (present singular third-person)
deadsticking (participle present)
deadsticked (participle past)
deadsticked (past)
dead stick (alternative)
dead-stick (alternative)

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(fishing) To present the lure either by casting or a vertical drop and allow the bait to remain motionless for an extended period before retrieval.


disgorger

(fishing) A device used to remove a hook from the mouth of a fish


fyke-net

fyke-nets (plural)
fyke net (alternative)


fyke

Borrowed from Dutch fuik (“fish trap”), from Middle Dutch vuyke, fuke. Cognate with West Frisian fûke, German Low German Fuuk.

(fishing) A type of fish-trap consisting of tubular nets that are supported by hoops.


fyke net

fyke nets (plural)
fyke-net (alternative)


turtle excluder device

en-noun

turtle excluder device (plural turtle excluder devices)

(fishing) A device that allows a captured sea turtle to escape when caught in a fishing net.


fishgig

fishgigs (plural)
fisgig (alternative)
fish gig (alternative)
fizgig (alternative)
fissgig (alternative obsolete)

A modification of fizgig, probably influenced by fish.

(fishing) Alternative spelling of fizgig.


fishfinding

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(fishing) The location of fish by means of a fishfinder device.


waggler

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(fishing) A float consisting of a thin tube of plastic with a line threaded through an eye at the bottom.


orl fly

(fishing) An alderfly, perhaps specifically of the species Sialis lutaria.


alderfly

(fishing) An artificial fly with brown mottled wings, body of peacock harl, and black legs.


leadline

leadlines (plural)
lead line (alternative)

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From lead (noun) + line (after the metal); the attached plummet is usually made from lead.

To attach the bridles, start measuring from the point on the gavel 16 metres from the floatline wheree you have seized the end of the leadline.

1987, M. Ben-Yami, Purse-seining with Small Boats, →ISBN, page 46:

The hold was empty, without a net, corkline, leadline or buoy to be found.

1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 103:

Generally, there will be equal selvedges to the floatline and leadline.

1987, Ludvik Karlsen, Bjorn A. Bjarnason, Small-scale Fishing with Driftnets, →ISBN, page 33:

(fishing) A weighted line for holding down the lower edge of a gillnet.


checkwork

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The deluxe reel with every refinement including adjustable check, quick-release drum, dual checkwork, etc.

1964, The Fishing Gazette [New Series] - Issues 4524-4544, page 218:

With the reel comes an instruction booklet of exemplary clarity, in respect of both text and illustration, a necessity in view of the alterations to the checkwork which the angler himself may make for left or right-hand wind, for silent running and so on.

1979, The Salmon and Trout Magazine: Volumes 215-223, page 61:

When set properly, the checkwork should offer more resistance to the line when it's going out than when it's being wound in.

1987, A. J. McClane, Keith Gardner, The Complete Book of Fishing, page 20:

(fishing) The mechanism on a reel that halts it when it is unwinding.


mousie

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(fishing) A rat-tailed maggot used as bait.


drail

From Middle English *drailen (attested as drailed), a variant of Middle English trailen (“to hang loosely, drag along, drag away”), from a merger of Old French trailer, traillier (“to trail”) and Old English trǣġlian, trǣġelian (“to pluck, pull away”). The alteration of trailen to drailen was probably due to influence from Middle English dragan, drawen (“to drag, draw”).

cog

(fishing) The piece of lead around the shank of such a hook.


drail

en-verb

drail (third-person singular simple present drails, present participle drailing, simple past and past participle drailed)

drails (present singular third-person)
drailing (participle present)
drailed (participle past)
drailed (past)

drailing for mackerel

(fishing, obsolete, intransitive) To trawl.


gangion

/ˈɡænd͡ʒiən/

Probably an alteration of ganging (“fishing leader for attaching a hook to a line”).

(fishing) A short line attached to a trawl.


bobfly

This fly is always best as the bobfly on the cast.

1866, Sir Randal Howland Roberts, The river's side: or, The trout and grayling, and how to take them, page 74:

a fish came in on the bobfly

1904, Stephen Lucius Gwynn, Fishing holidays:

He watched the upper fold of the curved line rolling itself out almost parallel to the lower, and the flies finally alighting upon the surface of the water one after the other in beautiful sequence from the bobfly to the tail.

1908, The Badminton magazine of sports & pastimes: Volume 26:

(fishing) The fly fixed at the end of the leader.


close season

en-noun

close season (countable and uncountable, plural close seasons)

close seasons (plural)
closed season (alternative)

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(hunting, fishing) The time of year when hunting or fishing is not permitted.


hackled

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a large-hackled fly

(fishing, in combination) Having a hackle or feather of a specified kind.


landing net

(fishing) A fishnet mounted on a ring which is connected to a handle, used by anglers to secure a catch when pulling it out of the water by the line to which it is hooked.


take the bait

en-verb

take the bait (third-person singular simple present takes the bait, present participle taking the bait, simple past took the bait, past participle taken the bait)

takes the bait (present singular third-person)
taking the bait (participle present)
took the bait (past)
taken the bait (participle past)

An allusion to a fish swallowing a baited hook.

(literally, fishing) To nibble at bait on a hook.


scringe

Trawling, or scringing, for salmon trout is, in some respects, similar to splashing, and is also carried on between the hours of sunset and sunrise, in the nooks, bays, and other suitable places along the sore of either the coast or of the sea-water loch, into which rivulets and streams empty themselves, although there are many places in which the splash net can be advantageously used where the scringe cannot be employed, as the latter requires a clear bottom, without any impediments, otherwise it cannot be drawn to the shore.

1859 October, “Trawling, or Scringing, For Salmon Trout and Other Fish”, in The Knapsack, volume 1, page 258:

The scringe decidedly takes the precedence of the splash, provided sufficient strength as well as skill be employed for its effective management — because, if the net is not drawn equally and continuously towards the shore, many fish will escape.

1867, Irwin Edward Bainbridge Cox, Facts and Useful Hints Relating to Fishing and Shooting, page 24:

Of course, with surface-swimming fish the scringe or ground seine need not touch the bottom.

1895, John Bickerdyke, Sea Fishing, page 282:

(fishing) A type of dragnet with a bag in the center and a very fine mesh.


scringe

scringe (third-person singular simple present scringes, present participle scringing, simple past and past participle scringed)

scringes (present singular third-person)
scringing (participle present)
scringed (participle past)
scringed (past)

The evil complained of, so far from having decreased, has been greater than before, as the men engaged in this lawless pursuit, finding that they scringe with impunity, have become emboldened, and are more industrious than ever.

1874, Archibald Young, Notes on the Scotch Salmon Fishery Acts of 1862 and 1868, page 30:

But in spite of their watchfulness, sometimes a black-looking boat slips over in the dead of night from somewhere in the neighbourhood of Oban, catches the keepers napping, and 'scringes' the mouth of a river, clearing off every salmon and sea-trout in the bay.

1918, Poor Law Magazine and Local Government Journal, page 349:


flatliner

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(fishing) An angler who uses a flatline.


tailer

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(fishing) A large noose with a long handle intended to secure a fish's tail.

(fishing) A fish bottom-feeding in shallow water with its tail out of the water.


downrigger

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(fishing) A large reel of heavily weighted steel wire fishing line used to fish with trolled bait at great depths.


groundline

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(fishing) A weighted fishing line that lies along the floor of the body of water in which the user is fishing.


baitholder

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freeline

freeline (third-person singular simple present freelines, present participle freelining, simple past and past participle freelined)

freelines (present singular third-person)
freelining (participle present)
freelined (participle past)
freelined (past)

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(fishing) To fish with a simple hook and bait, without floats, sinkers, etc.


nymphing

(fishing) Fly fishing using a nymph larva as bait.


baitcasting

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(fishing) A form of casting in which the weight of the bait pulls the fishing line off of the spool (subject to some control by thumb pressure)


baitwell

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(fishing) A water-filled container for preserving live bait until needed.


smallie

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(fishing, informal) A smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu).


spring hook

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(fishing) An angler's snap-hook or spear-hook.


give someone line

give someone line (third-person singular simple present gives someone line, present participle giving someone line, simple past gave someone line, past participle given someone line)

gives someone line (present singular third-person)
giving someone line (participle present)
gave someone line (past)
given someone line (participle past)

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Give him LINE, boy (as the trout rushed down into the shallows); into the water, boy! the line's nearly run out; it's nowhere up to your knees. Watch him! draw the line up; gently! give him line; give him line—thought so! —I feared so, ' as the line, becoming entangled from drawing it up, snapped, and the fish dashed on blindly into the shallows and stranded.

(fishing) To unreel more fishing line so that a hooked fish has more freedom to tire itself out.


yellow Sally

en-noun

yellow Sally (plural yellow Sallys or yellow Sallies)

yellow Sallys (plural)
yellow Sallies (plural)

(fishing) A greenish or yellowish European stonefly of the family Chloroperlidae.


saltchucker

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(Canada, informal, fishing) Someone who fishes in saltwater.


boilie

(fishing) A bait made from a paste of various ingredients mixed with eggs as a binder and then boiled to harden it.

bojli

a bait made from a paste of various ingredients


babber

From bab (“to fish for eels using a bab (bundle of live worms)”) + -er (agent noun suffix); the further etymology of bab is uncertain.

suffix

Another way of taking eels, and by far the more ingenious, is that known as "babbing," or "bobbing." A series of large worms are strung on cobbler's worsted and coiled into a knot. […] I have known a couple of "babbers" to take as many as four or five stone of eels in a single night.

1868 September, “The Norfolk Broads”, in Anthony Trollope, editor, Saint Pauls. A Monthly Magazine, volume II, London: Virtue and Co., […], →OCLC, page 724:

It was pretty, too, to watch the lights in the town going out one by one, until, to borrow from Gray again, the world was left to darkness and to me, and the other eel-babbers.

1876 February, Saxon [pseudonym], “A Night’s Babbing”, in The Guernsey Magazine: A Monthly Illustrated Journal of Information, Instruction, & Entertainment, volume IV, number 2, Guernsey: F. Clarke, […], →OCLC, column 1:

The babbers follow the eels, and you may see fifteen boats as close together as possible, babbing away, and catching as much as four stone-weight of eels per boat of a night.

1884, G[eorge] Christopher Davies, “About Eels”, in Norfolk Broads and Rivers: Or The Water-ways, Lagoons, and Decoys of East Anglia, new edition, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, pages 243–244:

Get a few eels babbing; a babber close by caught 1¼ lb. tench on his bab.

1891 June 26 (date written), P[eter] H[enry] Emerson, “Log of the ‘Maid of the Mist.’ September 15, 1890, to August 31, 1891.”, in On English Lagoons: Being an Account of the Voyage of Two Amateur Wherrymen on the Norfolk and Suffolk Rivers and Broads […], London: David Nutt, […], published 1893, →OCLC, page 295:

(East Anglia, fishing) A fisherman using babs (“baits consisting of bundles of live worms”) to catch eels.


hair rig

(fishing) A piece of tackle allowing the bait to be linked to the hook by a thread rather than directly mounted on the hook.


hookset

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(fishing) A sharp motion made with a fishing rod in order to "set" the hook firmly into the mouth of the fish that has taken the bait.


swimbait

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(fishing) A kind of fishing lure that imitates a swimming fish.


crankbait

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spinnerbait

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(fishing) A kind of fishing lure with spinning blades that create varying degrees of flash and vibration mimicking the movement of a fish.


spoonplug

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Texas rig

(fishing) A fishing rig involving a bullet-shaped weight threaded onto the fishing line, followed by an optional bead and then the hook.


Carolina rig

(fishing) A fishing rig resembling the Texas rig, but with the weight fixed above the hook, instead of sliding down to it.


terminal tackle

(fishing) Gear that is attached to the end of a fishing line.


gorge fishing

(fishing) trolling with a dead bait on a double hook which the fish is given time to swallow, or gorge


gorge hook

The gorge hook consists of two, or what is called a double Eel hook: to the shank of the book is fastened about two or three inches of brass wire twisted, the end of which forms a loop

1841, Thomas Frederick Salter, The Troller's Guide […] :

(fishing) Two hooks separated by a piece of lead.


squam

Shortened from Annisquam, name of a village on the coast of Massachusetts.

He raised his big hand to his squam hat. It lingered there and he removed the hat a little clumsily. She smiled again brightly. "Merry Christmas!" she cried. He smiled back, holding his squam hat in his hand, "Merry Christmas to ye, Miss," he answered gravely and she departed.

1910, Frederick Ritchie Bechdolt, The Hard Rock Man, page 162:

(US, fishing) An oilskin hat; a southwester.


nightline

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(fishing) A fishing line set out to catch fish overnight.


rod pod

(fishing) A stand for holding various items of angling equipment while it is in use.


backlead

(fishing) An additional weight on a fishing line, to ensure that the line rests on the bed of the lake.


plunker

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(fishing) An angler who throws bait into the water and waits on the shore, rather than fishing from a boat.


uptrace

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(fishing) An almost vertical line that attaches a float to a bait that is resting on the bed of the river.


handline

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(fishing) A single fishing line without a rod, but usually attached to a reel, held in the hands.


handline

en-verb

handline (third-person singular simple present handlines, present participle handlining, simple past and past participle handlined)

handlines (present singular third-person)
handlining (participle present)
handlined (participle past)
handlined (past)

(fishing) To fish with a single fishing line held in the hands.


backtroll

backtroll (third-person singular simple present backtrolls, present participle backtrolling, simple past and past participle backtrolled)

backtrolls (present singular third-person)
backtrolling (participle present)
backtrolled (participle past)
backtrolled (past)

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(fishing) To fish by trolling with the boat's motor in reverse, minimising movement of the boat.


backtroller

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(fishing) One who fishes by backtrolling.


flymaker

Now the directions given are the basis as indicated of all artificial fly-making, and really but little can be here added to them with a view of further instructing the would-be flymaker.

1881, John Harrington Keene, The Practical Fisherman: Dealing with the Natural History, the Legendary Lore, the Capture of British Freshwater Fish, and Tackle and Tackle Making:

(fishing) One who makes artificial flies for use in fishing.


trouter

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(fishing) An angler who fishes for trout.


bankline

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(fishing) A heavy fishing line that can be left unattended to catch fish, having one end on the bank and the other anchored underwater.


cockabondy

Perhaps from Welsh coch y bonddu (literally “red with black stem”).

der

(fishing, dated) An angler's artificial fly.


baitshop

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(fishing) A shop that sells bait for anglers.


sidecast

en-verb

sidecast (third-person singular simple present sidecasts, present participle sidecasting, simple past sidecasted, past participle sidecast)

sidecasts (present singular third-person)
sidecasting (participle present)
sidecasted (past)
sidecast (participle past)
side-cast (alternative)
side cast (alternative)

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I bait his hook with a plump and squirmy shrimp. With one arm, he sidecasts between two spindly roots.

2015, Ana Veciana-Suarez, Birthday Parties in Heaven, →ISBN:

(fishing) To cast a fishing line at an angle of 90 degrees using a special type of reel that rotates on its rod.


sidecast

en-noun

sidecast (countable and uncountable, plural sidecasts)

sidecasts (plural)
side-cast (alternative)
side cast (alternative)

When fishing for drummer off the rocks with a sidecast reel, have the drag set at about 50 per cent of the breaking strain to start with.

2005, Gary Brown, Beach and Rock Fishing, →ISBN:

Giving the design even more of an Aussie edge, the name of the largest Australian manufacturer of sidecasts — Alvey — has become a generic title for this type of reel, just as Esky has come to mean insulated cooler.

2010, Steve Starling, Fishing For Dummies, →ISBN:

(fishing) A type of reel with a spool that rotates on a fixed base through 90 degrees to allow sidecasting.


fighting chair

(fishing) A chair fixed to the deck of a boat in which one sits to reel in a struggling fish when sea fishing.


ledger bait

ledger bait (countable and uncountable, plural ledger baits)

your ledger-bait is best to be a living bait, though a dead one may catch, whether it be a fish or a frog

1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN:

LEDGER-BAITS, OR BANK-RUNNERS are often adopted in pike-fishing, and are merely used as a mode of dispensing with the rod

1856, John Henry Walsh, Manual of British Rural Sports:

(fishing) Fishing bait attached to a floating line fastened to the bank of a stream, pond, etc.


squatt

squatt (countable and uncountable, plural squatts)

(fishing) The larva of the common housefly; used as bait


overbody

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From over- + body. Compare Middle English overbody (“celestial body”).

cog

(fishing) The upper portion of a jig or lure.


baithook

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cold iron

(slang, fishing, Scotland, Ireland) A bad omen.


pirk

The pirk or diamond jig is an equally basic lure which can be extremely good for cod and pollack, and when baited for ling and halibut. Pirk baits are an updated version of the scraped lead lures used by Grand Banks cod fishermen, though most commercially made pirk style baits now originate in Scandinavia. The pirk is basically a single piece of chromed metal fitted with a large treble hook.

1987, Keith Gardner, The Complete Book of Fishing: A Guide to Freshwater, Saltwater & Big-game Fishing:

If you fancy lure fishing, which is truly sporting and great fun, you'll need a variety of spoons, spinners, plugs, pirks and jelly lures.

2003, John Bailey, Where to Sea Fish in Britain and Ireland:

A pirk is basically a shiny metal bar with a treble hook attached. It is lowered to the bottom and worked by lifting the rod up and down in big sweeps as the boat drifts over a wreck. This movement, close to the bottom, looks and sounds like a small fish darting about.

2013, Jim Whippy, Sea Fishing: Expert Tips and Techniques for Yachtsmen, Motorboaters and Sea Anglers:

(fishing) A type of fishing lure consisting of a metal bar with a treble hook attached.


salamba

(fishing) A large lift net used in Asia.


lift net

(fishing) A large mechanically-operated fishing net with a cantilever, left underwater before being raised again to retrieve the catch.


flybook

(fishing) A small case for holding fishing flies.


trash fish

en-noun

trash fish (plural trash fish or trash fishes)

trash fish (plural)
trash fishes (plural)

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(fishing, food) A fish caught as bycatch and generally sold cheaply.


underwrap

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Begin with an underwrap that's necessary to hold the diamond pattern in place.

1986, Jim Mayes, How to Make and Repair Your Own Fishing Tackle:

Underwraps are made using exactly the same techniques as guide wraps, except that no guide is wrapped down. An underwrap is usually a plain continuous wrap, although decorative wraps to make the center ring of the guide or to dress up the end are also possible, just as they are on any guide wrap.

2013, C. Boyd Pfeiffer, Complete Book of Rod Building and Tackle Making, →ISBN, page 480:

Determine the length of the trim band (extended underwrap) you want on each end of the wraps.

2013, Dale P. Clemens, Advanced Custom Rod Building, →ISBN:

(fishing) An optional wrap that goes under the guide wrap on a fishing rod.


underwrapped

en-adj

underwrapped (comparative more underwrapped, superlative most underwrapped)

more underwrapped (comparative)
most underwrapped (superlative)

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All Mariner rods have large underwrapped aluminum-oxide guides, cushioned foam grips and graphite reel seats with stainlesssteel hoods.

All Power Graph models feature fully underwrapped guides and a multi-coat, deep epoxy finish for years of beauty and maintenance-free performance.

If you like the appearance of an underwrapped guide but do not want the bulk or the stiffening effect on a light rod, let me suggest what I call “false underwraps.”


corkline

corklines (plural)
cork line (alternative)

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Double corklines, one right-hand lay and one left-hand lay to prevent twisting, were used on all gill nets.

1957, Special Scientific Report: Fisheries - Issue 205, page 5:

The porpoise safety panel shall consist of small mesh webbing not to exceed ¼" stretch mesh extending downward from the corkline and the base of the porpoise apron to a minimum depth equivalent to two strips of 100 meshes of 4¼" stretch mesh webbing.

1983, The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America:

The hold was empty, without a net, corkline, leadline or buoy to be found.

1993, Dana Stabenow, A Fatal Thaw, →ISBN, page 103:

(fishing) The top line of a gillnet, which has attached floats (often, but not always, made of cork) that give that edge of the net buoyancy.


baitcaster

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flymph

(fishing) In fly fishing, a lure imitating an insect that is not yet a fly but no longer a nymph.


hare's ear

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From Middle English harys eere, haris heere, hares eres, equivalent to hare's + ear.

(fishing) A traditional artificial fly imitating an aquatic insect larva, used in fly fishing.


freespool

en-verb

freespool (third-person singular simple present freespools, present participle freespooling, simple past and past participle freespooled)

freespools (present singular third-person)
freespooling (participle present)
freespooled (participle past)
freespooled (past)

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(ambitransitive, fishing) To release the fishing line freely from its spool, not under tension.


upwing

Should you find no drakes or upwing insects floating on the surface and that a greater number of duns or lapwing insects are on the wing, you can fish dry with a dun fly like the natural insect you see, or fish the duns wet with two or more flies, till later on when you see drakes floating, then fish with dry fly imitations.

1921, Louis Rhead, How to Fish the Dry Fly:

The four of us — Tom Poole, Clint Lere, Peter and I — would try various upwing dry flies, including the Flame Thrower, and count and measure all of the trout caught throughout the evening.

1993, Gary LaFontaine, Trout Flies: Proven Patterns, page 180:

Size and color may be changed to replicate any hatch, and the wing position simulates both upwing and downwing spinners.

1993, Dick Stewart, Farrow Allen, Flies for Trout, →ISBN, page 49:

(fishing, of a fly) Holding the forewings together above the body.


spinning rod

An avid angler, she kept a collapsible spinning rod in the back of her truck in case she happened to drive past a likely-looking stream.

1840, The New Sporting Magazine, Volume 18 ("The Fly-fisher's Text Book. Or, the Science and Practice of Fly-fishing for Salmon, Trout, &c."), page 171: https://books.google.com/books?id=jPw7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA171&dq=%22spinning+rod%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwihtofHqNzfAhXmQd8KHT2VAX843gIQ6AEIXDAJ#v=onepage&q=%22spinning%20rod%22&f=false
Hook, even with snap tackle and a spinning rod, a jack of 8 or 9 lb.,--he gives a shake or two, but still you may go on, wind, wind, till he is on shore […]

1859, Isaak Walton & Charles Cotton, The Complete Angler, Routledge, Warnes and Routledge, page 236: https://books.google.com/books?id=Ng1JAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA236&dq=%22spinning+rod%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwit7f6VptzfAhVjQt8KHZ25Bjw46AIQ6AEISTAG#v=onepage&q=%22spinning%20rod%22&f=false
The pieces of the spinning-rod should be moderately stout--something between those of the trolling-rod and the larger trout fly-rod--and they should be ringed with middle-sized upright rings, and should be tolerably elastic.

(fishing) A long, flexible fishing rod with guide rings and a mounting bracket for a spinning reel.


rod ring

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(fishing) Any of the rings along a fishing rod through which the line runs.


dropnet

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(fishing) A fishing net suspended from a boom, to be suddenly dropped on a passing shoal of fish.


trail net

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spoonbait

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(fishing) A spoon (type of fishing lure).


fly line

fly lines (plural)
flyline (alternative)

(fishing) A line for angling with an artificial fly.


floatant

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(fishing) A chemical agent applied to a fly to make it float on the water.


game chair

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bait up

bait up (third-person singular simple present baits up, present participle baiting up, simple past and past participle baited up)

baits up (present singular third-person)
baiting up (participle present)
baited up (participle past)
baited up (past)

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The housewife smiled to herself and started baiting up the hook.

1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 29:

(fishing, transitive) To place bait on fishing tackle preparatory to fishing.


superline

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(fishing) A fishing line made from technologically advanced materials and having desirable features such as small diameter, great strength, and lack of stretch.


bait boat

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(fishing) A small, typically radio-controlled, craft that distributes bait to a region thought to contain fish.


rod line

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(fishing) A fishing line that is not wound on a reel.


overtackle

overtackle (third-person singular simple present overtackles, present participle overtackling, simple past and past participle overtackled)

overtackles (present singular third-person)
overtackling (participle present)
overtackled (participle past)
overtackled (past)

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You can use virtually any sturdy tackle and, generally speaking, it is better to overtackle than to undertackle.

1963, Heinz Ulrich, America's Best Deep-sea Fishing, page 234:

A lot of kings are taken by accident, by fishermen trolling for marlin and sailfish, and as a result they are often overtackled and the fighting qualities of this great fish are not appreciated.

1976, Nick Karas, America's Favorite Salt-water Fishing, Dutton Adult, page 122:

The explosive strike of a tenor fifteen-pound largemouth bass as it rushed from the cover of lily pads to take the bob must have been as exciting sport as any had by the most overtackled present-day angler.

2013, Paul Schullery, The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors, Skyhorse Publishing Inc., →ISBN, page 40:

(fishing) To use or equip with excessive tackle.


arbor knot

(fishing) A type of knot used to secure fishing line to the arbor of a fishing reel.


sideboarded

en-adj

sideboarded (comparative more sideboarded, superlative most sideboarded)

more sideboarded (comparative)
most sideboarded (superlative)

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The sideboard ratios that are applicable for each general sideboarded fishery for a rockfish cooperative in the Catcher/processor sector are calculated by dividing the aggregate retained catch of that fishery, from July 1 through July 31 in each year from 1996 through 2002, caught by LLP licenses assigned to that rockfish cooperative that are subject to directed fishing closures under this paragraph (d), by the total retained catch from July 1 through July 31 in each year from 1996 through 2002 caught by all groundfish vessels in that sector.

2009, Code of Federal Regulations, page 783:

Conversely, in fisheries with increasing sideboards, economic benefit could be denied to the sideboarded sectors.

2012, Federal Register - Volume 77, Issue 50, page 15226:

(fishing) Having a sideboard restriction.


mossyback

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From mossy + back (in sense 2 (“person who stayed hidden to evade conscription during the American Civil War”) probably a variant of mossback, which is attested earlier), alluding to someone or something that is so old or has remained so unmoving that it is as if moss has grown on them or it.
Sense 3.2 (“menhaden”) may be influenced by mossbunker.

(fishing, obsolete) A fish that is large and old, especially one that has algae growing on its back; a mossback.


skish

(fishing) A game used to practice fishing skills, involving casting a small lead weight at a series of targets.


spring net

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(fishing) A fishing net that closes by means of a spring.


flap doodle

en-noun

flap doodle (countable and uncountable, plural flap doodles)

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What just about everybody does agree on is that a flap doodle will often increase your chances of hooking a king salmon. A flap doodle is nothing more than a small spinner blade attached to the rear of the fly, and it's nothing new.

2006, American Angler: The Magazine of Fly Fishing and Fly Tying:

(fishing) A spinner blade attached to a fly at the bend of the hook.


sjark

From Norwegian sjark, from Russian, from English shark.

(nautical, fishing) A Norwegian fishing boat classification, for boats around 10 metres in length, between 25 and 40 feet, and with a particular hull style, used in northern Norway.


nimp

Then you fish with a nimp, when it should be an Alexandra, or strike too soon or too hard, or play the fish too heavily, […]

1950, Country Life, volume 107, page 223:

The majority of Western fly-fishing guides tend to be the sort of folks you meet in the cheap seats at professional sporting events—the sort of decent, working-class personages who call a beer a "brewski," a nymph a "nimp," a lost fish a "long-range release," and a minor flesh wound a "Hertz Donut." That I abhor the riverside company of these perfectly amiable souls might seem snobbish. But a river, when one is fly-fishing, is like a symphony: you need your full concentration to make sense of the thing. Is it snobbery when attending the symphony not to want to sit beside some bloke, however likable, who natters on throughout the performance about their favorite brewski brands, deadliest nimps, and most hilarious Hertz Donuts?

2002, David James Duncan, My Story as Told by Water:

(fishing, slang or nonstandard) A nymph.


paranzella

All the gill nets, trammel nets, paranzellas, net ropes, trawl lines, etc., are tanned.

1892, United States. Bureau of Fisheries, Report, page 132:

Any net, seine, drag-net, paranzella, or set-net used for taking or catching fish, which shall be used or maintained in any of the waters of this state in violation of any existing or hereafter enacted statutes or laws of this state for the protection of fish, is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and it is the duty of every peace officer to seize and keep the same and report such seizure to the board of fish commissioners of the state.

1901, Carter Pitkin Pomeroy, The Codes and Statutes of California:

(fishing) A deep, finely meshed conical net with long narrow wings, held open by cork floats and lead sinkers.


miscatch

Forty-five vessels had, during the whole fishing time, fished 3266 times and caught 21,623 barrels of herrings, consequently on an average 6.66 barrels every time the nets were laid; however, there having been 882 times a miscatch, the above-named number really has been caught in 3266-882=2,384 times fishing. Hence the catch of every time of fishing amounts to 9.1 barrels.

1858, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal:

At temperatures below fifty, the proportion of catch to miscatch is almost equal ; between fifty and sixty degrees the proportion is about four catches to one miscatch.

1859, Walter White, Northumberland, and the Border, page 242:

Investigating types and number of fishing gears; catch per unit of effort by different fishing gears; miscatch amount and bycatch ratio of fish banned.

2017, Zhenli Huang, Bingfang Wu, Three Gorges Dam: Environmental Monitoring Network and Practice, page 133:

(fishing) A catch in which the wrong type of fish is caught, and so must be released.


palenka

(Jamaica, fishing) A fishing tool comprising numerous small lines with hooks.


sinkant

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(fishing) A chemical agent applied to a fly to make it sink instead of floating on the water.


halibuter

halibuters (plural)
halibutter (alternative)

(fishing) A fishing boat used for catching halibut.


downlooker

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From down + looker. The snipe flies sometimes perch on tree trunks in a head-down position.

(fishing) A kind of artificial fly used in fly fishing.


wildie

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(informal, fishing) A wild fish (most often a carp) rather than one bred artificially for angling


tailout

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(fishing) The downstream section of a pool where the water gets shallower and faster before forming a riffle.


wetline

wetlines (plural)
wet line (alternative)

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Its below decks layout has been redesigned to suit its role as a modern wetline or rock lobster fishing boat.

1983, Australian Fisheries, volume 42, page 35:

The commercial wetline fleet is a subset of the total fishing fleet, and consists of all boats with Fishing Boat Licences which have access to fish stocks that are not subject to specific management.

2000, Protecting and Sharing Western Australia's Coastal Fish Resources: The Path to Integrated Management: Issues and Proposals for Community Discussion, Fisheries Western Australia:

I worked on several boats over a total of eight seasons, along the way obtaining my Master Class V and Master of Limited Trade Vessels skipper's tickets, and skippered a wet-line fishing boat, and a charter boat in the off-seasons.

(fishing, Australia, attributive) Commercial line fishing that does not use a longline.


walleye chop

(fishing) An event of choppy waters accompanied by a feeding frenzy of walleyes


cuttyhunk

(fishing) A fishing line made from linen threads twisted together.


FV

(maritime, nautical, fishing) Initialism of fishing vessel (also a ship prefix).


snap swivel

Anglers often ask me about the correct way to use a swivel, snap, or a snap-swivel. It is an excellent question, because misusing these important pieces of terminal tackle is one of the most common mistakes in freshwater fishing.

2000, Field & Stream, volume 104, number 10, page 79:

(fishing) A form of tackle that combines a snap and a swivel.


wrentail

(fishing) A kind of fly used in fly fishing, resembling a wren's tail feather.


chub bread

chub bread (countable and uncountable, plural chub breads)

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(fishing) Any form of bread used as bait to reel in a chub.


spoonplugging

(fishing) The use of the spoonplug lure.


hooksetting

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(fishing) The action of making a hookset.


Digby chicken

(fishing, cooking) A type of dried or cured herring caught at Digby, Nova Scotia.


dumping day

dumping days (plural)
Dumping Day (alternative)

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(fishing) The first day of lobster fishing season, when the first lobster traps are set, i.e. dumped into the water.


gadger

(fishing) A stonefly nymph used as bait.


GRHE

(fishing) Initialism of gold-ribbed hare's ear.


LRF

light rock fishing
light rock fishing#English

(fishing) Initialism of light rock fishing.


buzzbait

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(fishing) A fishing lure with blades that disturb the surface of the water.


yellow sallfly

yellow sallfly (plural yellow sallflies)

(fishing) A member of the Chloroperlidae family of stoneflies


hookbait

hookbait (countable and uncountable, plural hookbaits)

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weedbed

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(fishing) The lower region of the water, where many weeds grow.


weedline

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(fishing) The line formed by the edge of a weedbed.


cast over

en-verb

cast over (third-person singular simple present casts over, present participle casting over, simple past and past participle cast over)

casts over (present singular third-person)
casting over (participle present)
cast over (participle past)
cast over (past)

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(fishing) To cast into another fisher's area or so as to cross over their line.


bivisible

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(fishing) A kind of fishing fly in two contrasting colors, intended to be easily seen by both the angler and the fish.


trolling-rod

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(fishing) A type of specialized fishing rod designed to pull a bait or lure behind a moving boat in order to catch fish.


hairwing

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(fishing) A kind of fishing fly with wings made from hair.


paradun

Although I still carry traditionally tied Adamses and a few Ginger Quills and the like, I now fish paraduns almost exclusively when […]

1991, Ed Engle, Fly Fishing the Tailwaters, page 96:

(fishing) A kind of fly used in fishing.


pole hook

pole hooks (plural)
pole-hook (alternative)

(fishing) A hook that is attached to a pole and used to suspend or hold an object.


hand-lance

en-noun

hand-lance (countable and uncountable, plural hand-lances)

hand-lances (plural)
hand lance (alternative)

(fishing) A spearlike tool used for whaling.


aerialize

en-verb

aerialize (third-person singular simple present aerializes, present participle aerializing, simple past and past participle aerialized)

aerializes (present singular third-person)
aerializing (participle present)
aerialized (participle past)
aerialized (past)

(transitive, fishing) To raise (the fly line) and propel it into the air so as to lay it across the water.


snagline

(fishing) A line dragged through the water with a hook or hooks attached, to catch fish.


cast-net

cast-net (third-person singular simple present cast-nets, present participle cast-netting, simple past and past participle cast-netted)

cast-nets (present singular third-person)
cast-netting (participle present)
cast-netted (participle past)
cast-netted (past)

With regard to barbel, the last direction for chub is a very important one; hundreds of barbel are caught when of mere gudgeon size, either when raking for gudgeon or cast-netting for bait.

1883, Francis Francis, The Practical Management of Fisheries, A Book For Proprietors and Keepers, page 96:

Down Florida way the coral reefs hold huge schools of small fish which can be easily cast netted after being attracted close to the boat with a bit of chum, or purchased from bait boats or from bait stores that have big tanks to handle live bait.

May 1986, Bunky Hearst, “Fighting Chair, Which Fish With Which To Fish-Got That?”, in Motor Boating & Sailing, volume 157, number 5, page 34:

Silver carps and tambaquis were obtained from a fishfarm and bluegills and Congo tilapias were cast-netted from Paranoá Reservoir.

1990, E. van Donk, E.H.R.R. Lammens, M.-L. Meyer, Ramesh D. Gulati (editors), Biomanipulation Tool for Water Management, Proceedings of an International Conference Held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 8–11 August, 1989, page 582:

In South Carolina, as many as 15,000 recreational fishermen buy licenses to cast net for white shrimp over a thirty-day period each fall.

2009, Jack Rudloe, Anne Rudloe, Shrimp, The Endless Quest for Pink Gold, page 70:

One of the best I knew was Buddy Rogers, a backwoods cracker who cast-netted during the day and spent most of his nights frog-leg hunting.

2016, Gilbert L. Voss, A Pioneer Son at Sea, Fishing Tales of Old Florida:

(fishing, transitive, uncommon) To throw a weighted fishing net and then pull it back by means of an attached line.