Upstream Swimmers
This is the specific type of water—found in rivers, streams, and creeks—where salmon must return to lay and fertilize their eggs.
What is Fresh Water?
This paired combination of a flexible graphite or fiberglass pole and a mechanical line-spooling device serves as an angler's primary tool for casting and retrieving.
What is a Fishing Rod & Reel?
This rule dictates that you must immediately return a fish to the water unharmed if it is too small or if you don't plan on eating it.
What is Catch & Release?
When bass are aggressively chasing baitfish right on the surface of calm water, you should tie on this hollow, soft-plastic amphibian look-alike.
What is a Topwater Lure?
This general method of angling involves dropping heavily weighted bait or jigs all the way to the seafloor or lakebed to target species like halibut, cod, or snapper.
What is Bottom Fishing?
This iconic species is the largest of all Pacific salmon and is widely known by this regal, royal nickname.
What is a King Salmon?
The sharp, curved metal piece that you put your bait on to catch the fish
What is a Hook?
This legal document must be purchased annually by older teens and adults to show they are allowed to fish legally in their state.
What is a Fishing License?
This classic, shiny metal lure wobbles back and forth through the water column, throwing off a lot of flash that drives predatory fish crazy.
What is a Spoon?
Instead of casting and reeling, this technique involves letting your lures drag behind a boat while it slowly drives forward to cover lots of water.
What is Trolling?
This is the specific term for cured, preserved salmon eggs that anglers tie into mesh mesh bags and drift through river currents as bait.
What is Roe?
This plastic or cork ball floats on top of the water and bobbles or sinks when a fish bites your bait.
What is a Bobber?
This term describes the maximum number of fish of a certain species that you are legally allowed to catch and keep in one day.
What is a Catch/Daily/Bag limit?
This hard-bodied plastic lure features a clear plastic lip on the front that forces it to dive deep into the water when you reel it in.
What is a Crankbait?
This classic style uses ultra-light rods and a heavy, colored line to cast tiny, feather-weight artificial bugs to hungry river trout.
What is fly fishing?
This species is unique because its young spend up to three years living in freshwater lakes before migrating out to the ocean.
What is a Pink Salmon (Humpy)?
These tiny metal connectors allow you to change your lures quickly without having to cut and re-tie your fishing line every single time.
What are Swivels (snaps)?
This is the common term for the illegal practice of taking wildlife or fish out of season, without a license, or by using banned methods.
What is Poaching?
This popular lure features one or two metal blades that spin like a helicopter, creating massive underwater vibrations that fish can feel from far away.
What is a Spinner?
This classic style uses ultra-light rods and a heavy, colored line to cast tiny, feather-weight artificial bugs to hungry river trout.
What is Ice Fishing?
This biological term describes the massive physical transformation mature salmon undergo as they enter rivers, where males grow humped backs and hooked, toothy upper jaws called "kypes."
What is Spawning Transition?
This clear, nearly invisible fishing line is made from a dense material that sinks quickly and is highly resistant to getting scraped up by rocks.
What is Fluorocarbon Line?
This type of conservation rule forbids keeping fish that fall within a specific size range to protect breeding adults.
What is slot limit
Popularized in the Pacific Northwest for salmon, this heavy, diamond-shaped solid lead lure is unique because it is designed to free-slide and spin directly on your fishing line.
What is a Buzzbomb?
Done from ocean beaches, this style requires long fishing rods to cast heavy weights directly past the crashing ocean waves.
What is Surf Fishing?