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T

Tail-Spinners - Compact, lead-bodied lures with one or two spinner blades attached to the tail, and a treble hook suspended from the body; designed to resemble a wounded shad; effective on schooling bass.
Tagging - Marking, or attaching a tag to an individual or group of
individuals, so that it or they can be identified on recapture; used for the study of movement, migration and stock delineation, for the examination in a stock and for the recovery of biological specimens.
Take-Out - A term used to specify where boats are taken out of the water at the end of a float trip.
Taper - An area in a body of water that slopes toward deeper depths.
Terminal Tackle - A term that refers collectively to bobbers, sinkers, leaders, hooks, lures, snaps, swivels, and other gear that go at the end of a line.
Texas Rig - The method of securing a hook to a soft-plastic bait - worm, lizard, crawfish, by burying the hook point into the body of the lure.
Thermocline - The distinct interface between surface waters and cooler, deeper waters; region below the surface layer of the sea or lake, where temperature declines abruptly with increasing depth.
Tight-Action Plug - A lure with short, rapid side-to-side movement.
Tiptop - Line guide or Eyelit at top of a fishing rod.
Top water Lure - A lure that floats and is designed to be used to create some degree of disturbance on the surface during retrieve.
Trailer Hook - The extra hook, or cheater hook added to a single-hook lure, such as a spinnerbait.
Transducer - A device that converts electrical energy to sound energy, or the converse.
Transition - The imaginary line where one type of bottom material changes to another.
Treble Hook - Hook with single or bundled shaft and three points.
Tributary - A creek, stream, or river that feeds a larger stream or river or lake.
Triggering - Employment of any lure-retrieval technique or other fishing strategy that causes a fish to strike.
Trolling - Several lures are towed behind the fishing vessel and retrieved as strikes are made.
Trolling Motor - A small electric fishing motor, typically mounted on the bow, that is used as secondary means of propulsion, for boat positioning, and to maneuver quietly in fishing areas.
Tubing (float fishing) - To float down a river or stream in an inner tube like craft while fishing.
Turnover - The period when the cold water on the surface of a body of water descends and is replaced by warmer water from below.

U

USCG - United States Coast Guard
USGS - United States Geological Survey.

V

Ventral Fin - The fin located on the front of a fish's abdomen.
Vertebra - An individual segment of the backbone of a fish.
Vertebrate - A creature that has a backbone, for instance a fish or a
mammal.
Visibility - The distance, measured in terms of depth, that you can see into a body of water; is directly affected by water clarity.

W

Wading - To transverse a river or stream on foot; most commonly done in shallower waterways.
Watercourse - A stream of water; natural or man-made channel through which water flows.
Water Dog - Any of several large American salamanders.
water column - Vertical section of the sea or lake.
Water Parting - A boundary line separating the drainage districts of two streams.
Watershed - A region bounded by a water parting and finally draining to a particular body of water or watercourse.
Weedless - A description of a lure designed to be fished in heavy cover with a minimum amount of snagging.
Weedline - Abrupt edge of a weedbed caused by a change in depth, bottom type, or other factor.
Worming - The act of fishing with a plastic worm, lizard, crawfish, or similar bait.

X

Y

Year Class - Individuals spawned in the same year (or spawning season, when that spans the end of one year and the beginning of the next).
Yolk Sac - In embryos and early fish larvae, a bag-like ventral extension of the gut containing nutrive materials. It nourishes the growing fish until it is able to feed itself.

Z

Zooplankton - Animals (mostly microscopic) which drift freely in the water column.

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