Chugger – Topwater plug with a dished-out (concave or “cupped”) head designed to make a splash when pulled sharply.
Clarity – Refers to the depth you are able to see an object (such as your lure) under the water.
Cold Front – A weather condition accompanied by high, clear skies, and a sudden drop in temperature.
Contact Point – The deepest position on structure where a bass angler can first effectively present his lure to bass as they migrate from deep water.
Controlled Drift – The act of using an electric motor, drift sock, or oars to allow a drift to be accomplished at a certain speed and/or direction. This term is often called “drift fishing” by most anglers.
Coontail – Submerged aquatic plant of the hornwort family typically found in hard water; charactreized by stiff, forked leaves.
Cosmic Clock – The sun’s seasonal effect on water and weather conditions relating to barometric pressure, wind, and cloud cover.
Count It Down – Timing a sinking lure to determine when it will reach a specified depth. This is accomplished by finding the rate of sinking of a lure in feet-per-second. Often used when fishing for suspended fish.
Cove – An indentation along a shoreline.
Cover – Natural or manmade objects on the bottom of lakes, rivers, or impoundments, especially those that influence fish behavior. Anything a fish can use to conceal itself. Examples include stick-ups, tree lines, stumps, rocks, logs, pilings, docks, weeds, boathouses, duck blinds, bushes, etc. (not to be confused with structure).
Crankbait – Typically, a lipped lure that dives under the surface during the retrieve. So-called lipless crankbaits are thin, minnow-like lures that sink at a rate of about 1-foot per second.
Dabbling – Working a lure up and down in the same spot a dozen or more times in a bush or beside a tree.
Depthfinder – A sonar device, either a flasher unit or LCR recorder, used to read the bottom structure, determine depth, and in some cases actually spot the fish; also called a fishfinder.
Disgorger – Device for removing hooks deeply embedded in the throat of fish.
Drag – Device on fishing reels that allows line to pay out under pressure, even though the reel is engaged; set correctly, it ensures against line breakage.
Drop-Off – A sudden increase in depth, created by gulley washes, small creek channels, land points, and the general lay of the land.
Drop Shot – A hook tied directly to the line from four-inches to four-feet above the sinker. The hook is attached from the back side or opposite the point, with a simple Palomar knot with a tag end about four or five feet long. The weight hangs and the hook is at a 90-degree angle to the line with the hook point up. The hook can be 18 to 24 inches above a bell sinker tied on with a slip-knot.
Ecology – The branch of biology dealing with the relationship between organisms and their environment.
Edge – Refers to the borders created by a change in the structure or vegetation in a lake. Some examples of edges are tree lines, weed lines, and the edge of a drop-off.
Euthrophic – Highly fertile waters characterized by warm, shallow basins.
Fan Cast – Making a series of casts only a few degrees apart to cover a half circle (more or less).
Farm Pond – Small manmade body of water.
Feeder Creek – Tributary to a stream.
Feeding Times – Certain times of the day when fish are most active. These are associated with the position of the sun and moon and are referred to as solunar tables (also called moon charts) and are predictable for any time and place. See Moon Times.
Filamentous Algae – Type of algae characterized by long chains of attached cells that give it a stringy feel and appearance.
Feeding Cycle – Certain regular intervals during which bass satisfy their appetites. Examples: Major or Minor Solunar periods; sunrise, sunset.
Finesse Fishing – An angling technique characterized by the use of light tackle – line, rods, reel and artificial baits (often tube worms, grubs, or other small-sized soft-plastic lures); often productive in clear, fairly uncluttered water.
Flat – An area in a body of water with little if any change in depth. Small and large, flats are generally surrounded on at least one side by deeper water, the bottom comes up to form a flat area where fish will often move up for feeding.
Flipping – (generally shortened to flippin’) The technique of placing a lure in a given spot precisely, and quietly, with as little disturbance of the water as possible using an underhand cast while controlling the line with your hand.
Flipping Stick – Heavy action fishing rod, 7 to 8 feet long, designed for bass fishing.
Florida Rig – Very similar to the Texas Rig, the only difference is the weight is secured by “screwing” it into the bait.
Fly ‘N Rind – Same thing as jig-and-pig – a combination of a leadhead jig and pork rind trailer.
Forage – Small baitfish, crayfish and other creatures that bass eat. May also be used in the sense of the bass looking for food (foraging).
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