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Ramp - A term used to denote the launch/retreive area for a boat.
Release - Returning fish, in the best possible condition after removal of the hook, to the water from which it was taken.
Reservoir - An artificial water body, normally used for drinking water supply, and which may also be stocked with fish.
Re-stocking - The practice of releasing artificially reared fry or fingerlings into ponds, reservoirs, or open waters.
Revolving-Spool Reel - Another term for bait-casting reel. The spool turns during casting, unlike the spool of a spinning or spin-casting reel.
Riprap - Loose rock, stacked on a bank by mother nature or man that transitions into the water to help prevent erosion. This is a great place where crustaceans like to hide.
River - A natural flow of water of considerable volume.
Riverbank - The bank or banks of a river.
Riverbed - The area/channel between the banks through which a river flows.
Riverboat - A boat designed for use on a river or stream.
Rivulet - A small stream or brook.

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Saddle - Site where structure narrows before widening again.
Sanctuary - Deep-water fish habitat.
Seine - A fishing net designed to hang vertically in the water, the ends being drawn together to encircle fish.
Selective Harvest - Deciding to release or harvest fish, based on species, size, and relative abundance.
Serial Spawning - Spawning in bursts or pulses more than once in a spawning season in response to an environment stimulus.
Shad - Any of several cluepeid fishes that have a rather deep body.
Shoal - A submerged ridge, bank, or bar consisting of, or covered by, unconsolidated sediments (mud, sand, gravel).
Size Limit - The legal length a fish must be if it is in possession.
Slip Sinker - A lead, zinc or steel weight with a hole through the center. Threaded on line, a slip sinker slides freely up and down.
Slot Limit - Dictates that fish within a specified mininum and maximum size range which must be released immediately.
Slough - A long, narrow stretch of water such as a small stream or feeder tributary off a lake or river.
Slow Roll - Spinner-bait presentation in which the lure is retrieved slowly through and over cover and objects.
Slush Bait - Top water plug with flat or pointed head.
Smallmouth Bass - A black bass, primarily bronze in color, who's jaw does not extend beyond the eye and is found in clear rivers and lakes; also called bronze backs, brown bass, river bass, and smallies.
Soft Bottom - River bottoms which are comprised of soft material such as silt, mud, or muck.
Sonar - An acronym derived from the expression 'sound navigation' and ranging; the method or the equipment for determining by underwater sound techniques the presence, location, or nature of objects in the sea; a system for determining distance of an underwater object by measuring the interval of time between transmission of an underwater sonic or ultrasonic signal and return of its echo.
Spawning - Release or deposition of spermatozoa or ova, of which some will fertilize or be fertilized to produce offspring; fish reproduction process characterized by females and males depositing eggs and sperm into the water simultaneously or in succession so as to fertilize the eggs.
Spin-caster - A manner of fishing employing a push-button, closed-face spinning reel and bait-casting rod.
Spinner-bait - A type of artificial lure that consists of one or two
rotating blades and either a straight or safety-pin style shaft dressed with material.
Spinning - A manner of fishing employing an open-face or closed-face spinning reel an spinning rod; reel is mounted on the underside of the rod; rod guides are on the underside of the rod.
Split Shot Sinker - A small ball of lead of varying weights that is split open on one side and can be placed directly on the line.
Spaghette - Another term for backlash. Also called Professional Overrun.
Spook - The act of alarming a fish in a negative way. Examples: excessive noise, casting a human shadow.
Stained - A discoloration of the water usually occurring after a heavy rain.
Starboard - The right side of a boat or ship.
Stick-Up - Stationary structure - stump, limb, section of pipe, fence post - that protrudes above the surface of the water.
Stizostedion vitreum - The Latin term for Walleye.
Stocking - The practice of releasing artificially reared fry or
fingerlings into ponds, reservoirs, or open waters.
Stragglers - Bass that remain near shore following a general migration.
Strain - In fish, a strain is a group of related individuals that was created though selective breeding and that is genetically different from other strains of the same species.
Stream - A body of running water.
Streambed - The channel being occupied or formerly occupied by a stream.
Structure - Changes in the shape of the bottom of lakes, rivers, or impoundments, especially those that influence fish behavior. Examples include manmade cribs, flooded roadbeds, humps, ledges, and drop-offs.
Suspended Fish - Fish at mid-level depths, neither near the surface nor on the bottom.
Swim Bladder - A tough-walled gas-filled sac lying in the upper part of the body cavity of many bony fishes just beneath the vertebral column; its principal function is to offset the weight of heavier tissue such as bone. In some fishes used for sound production or respiration.
Swimming Lures - Sinking-type artificial baits designed to resemble a swimming baitfish. Such plugs vibrate and/or wobble during retrieve; some have built-in rattles. Also called lipless crankbaits.

 

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