Trow Pool

13. GLOSSARY OF TERMS

Fishing is not rocket science but if you're new to the sport then there may be some terms that you're not familiar with, so the following may help:

Barbless (hook) - hook with no barb (must use these at Trow)

Boillie -round hard bait that is fished on a hair-rig (may sink or float)

Bird's nest - mess of line tangled around your reel

Disgorger - tool to safety retrieve a hook from the mouth of a fish (needed for Trow)

Environment rod licence - yearly licence required to fish coarse fish (must have)

Float - usually wooden stick that shows where the line is and indicated if a fish has taken the bait, connected to the line through the top and bottom

Forceps - pliers type tool to extract a hook from the mouth of a fish (useful addition for Trow)

Foul hook - when a fish is not hooked in the mouth but accidentally in body or fin

Free lining - to fish using line and hook only (try it at Trow with bread on the surface)

Hair-rig - when bait is presented off the hook on a "hair"

Hook-length - lesser strength line from hook to main line

Leger - heavy weight used to anchor bait on the bottom

Laying on - process of fishing with bait on the bottom

Landing net - net on a pole to retrieve hooked fished from water

Main-line - line from spool to hook length (higher breaking strain to hook length)

Pre-bait(ing) - presenting bait to a location that is then fished

Pool (Trow) - water where depth & temperature are the same all over & weed is present

Rig - the end tackle that usually includes hook, lead and float

Shot - weights, originally lead shotgun pellets to hold bait on bottom and/or to cock the float

Tackle (fishing) - all the equipment to fish (i.e. rig, plus rod, bait net etc)

Waggler - another name for a float, but line only connected at the base

F&*?"$!*"_+% - expletive often heard when an angler loses a big fish

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