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stripping

Sports; Fishing

Stripping has a few different meanings. It can mean to: retrieve a line that's on the water, pulling line away from the reel so a cast can be made, or pulling in a streamer in a manner to make it ...

hook

Sports; Fishing

What a fisherman will put the bait on to hopefully catch a fish. There are five types of hooks. Up-eyed, barbless, short shank, medium shank, long shank. Hooks also come in many different sizes.

hooking

Sports; Fishing

Getting a hook into a fish's mouth.

keepnets

Sports; Fishing

These are nets that fish are kept in before they are released back into the water.

keepsacks

Sports; Fishing

These are nets that are used to hold large fish.

larva

Sports; Fishing

The immature wingless worm like creature that hatches from the egg of many insects and which will, eventually, turn into an adult insect.

lateral line

Sports; Fishing

Fish have a row of very sensitive cells running down each side of their body.

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