Vocabulary in Fishing

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Aquaculture – The controlled cultivation and harvest of aquatic plants or animals such as edible marine algae, clams, oysters, and salmon.

Arbor – the centre of a centre pin reel’s spool. The arbor can also be a knot.

Arbor knot – knot used for tying backing to the arbor of the fly reel.

Arlseybomb – a pear shape lead weight developed by the late Dick Walker used for fishing

ArtificialBaits – lures or flies made of wood, plastic, metal, feathers, or similar inert material

Attractor – this is an additive that is used with the bait or mixed with the groundbait. Flavour attractors can be sweet or spicy.

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Back shot – back shot can be the piece of shot placed up the line behind a sliding leger or feeder or is a piece of shot placed on the line behind a float to help keep it steady in windy conditions. The piece of shot is placed about a foot away from the float tip and is usually a piece of shot from the float rig so it doesn’t sink.

Back cast – the casting of line in a direction opposite to the direction the fly is intended to go. The backward counterpart of the forward cast which acts to create a bending action on the fly rod, setting up the conditions to generate the forward cast and present the fly.

Backing line – old line or string padding that is attached to a reel to fill up the spool before attaching the line.

Backwater – an area of a river that is sometimes isolated.

Bagging up – catching lots of fish during a fishing session.

Bag limit – fishery restriction in the number of fish that an angler may retain, on a per trip or daily basis. Generally pertaining to trout..Also known as Creel limit.

Bail arm – the wire part of a fixed-spool reel that guides the line on the spool.

Bait – anything used on the hook to entice and capture the fish.

Bait band – used with boilies and pellets etc. A small elastic band that is wrapped around a bait and the hook is passed under the band or nicked through it so that the bait hangs from the side or the base of the hook. Bait bands are available in a variety of sizes to suit different sized baits.

Bait boat – remote controlled boat used mainly for carp fishing by carp anglers or by specialist anglers to place both their baited rig and loose feed, such as boilies, accurately at distances unachievable by casting.

Bait box – used for carrying your bait such as maggots.

Bait-clip – a clip that holds the baited hook during the cast.

Bait dropper – a device used to put hookbait samples down to the bottom of your swim. It is basically a cage with a door on the side held closed with a latch. When lowered down to the bottom the latch is pushed up and opens the cage door letting the bait fall out.

Bait fish – any fish that is of primary prey to a larger fish.

Bait needle – a needle that has had one side of the eye removed making a small hook. When used for baiting a hair rig you put the boilies or whatever bait you want to use onto this needle and then hook the hair rig loop onto the needle and pull the bait off the needle and onto the hair rig line. Then you put a bit of grass or boilie stop through the loop to hold the bait on, pull the bait down to it and your ready to go.

Baitrunner – especially used by carp or specimen anglers this is an open faced reel with a rear drag system that has a lever at the back. Line can be pulled off freely by a hooked fish and when the lever is activated the normal drag mechanism is engaged

Baitwell – a special well in a boat that holds the bait.

Ball bearings – small metal balls added to the mechanical mechanism of high-quality reels to make the retrieve smoother. Normally the more ball bearings a reel has the higher quality.

Balling up – throwing in lots of balls of groundbait into your swim such as at the start of a bream fishing session.

Balsa – type of wood floats used to be made of and still are in some cases, several lures are also manufactured from balsa wood. This wood is very light, yet highly buoyant.

Bank – The ground next to a body of water.

Bank fishing – fishing from the bank of a river, lake or other water as opposed to fishing from a boatBankstick – a straight rod that is pointed at one end and is threaded at the other end. The pointed is pushed into the ground. and into the threaded end is screwed a rod rest, keepnet or bait alarm. A reed cutter can be screwed into a bankstick making it into a long