Bass fishing 2023 glossary

[Tatulatard]

Flipping: making a short cast 

"I just flipped that bait out there with a roll cast"

 

Structure: things under water that are hard 

"James got hung up on structure"

 

BFS: casting a light weight bait with a baitcasting reel and rod

"Bubba was using a Majorcraft Finetail BFS rod"

 

This is my collection of definitions to fishing terms that have been lost or re-imagined.  What else am I missing?  "Shallow crankbait" seems to have been lost and replaced with "squarebill".  I don't think we have crossed the threshold on that one yet but we are close.  I did see Matt Allen call a shallow crankbait with a round bill a squarebill as if the term "shallow crankbait" had escaped him. "Another great bait is squarebill [presents bait] but this one has a round bill [visually confused] but its a squarebill..."

[Jar11591]

Flipping and roll casting are 2 different unrelated things in my fishing glossary. 
 

“Flipping for Bass. As stated above, flipping is the art of using the momentum of the bait and the swing of the rod, coupled with an arms length of line in your non-dominant hand to place a bait in close proximity to the area of interest.”

 

I’ll add one.

 

Lateral Line: an organ on a fish that can detect movement and vibrations in the water, not the black horizontal stripe of pigmentation on the side of a largemouth 

[Mobasser]

Cover. Objects ( trees, weeds, etc)that bass hide in.

I think structure is the big picture. Cover is what you get hung up on.

[Tatulatard]

1 hour ago, Mobasser said:

Cover. Objects ( trees, weeds, etc)that bass hide in.

I think structure is the big picture. Cover is what you get hung up on.

This is the only one I have an issue with.   Cover and structure are fundamentally different things.  I don't mind all short target casting being called "flipping" as long as the individual techniques are not lost.  Same with BFS.  Both stream and cover orientated bass fishing can fall into the same broader scope of BFS as long the destinction is made between the two. 

 

Someone calling a tree "structure" does bother me.  Proper understanding of structure and seasonal movements is key to successful bass fishing.  Without this knowledge you are just fishing random banks on the lake hoping to run into fish and when you do there is no understanding of why from a bigger picture.

[MN Fisher]

6 minutes ago, Tatulatard said:

Cover and structure are fundamentally different things. 

Structure: The un-changing or slowly changing topography of a water body's bed

Cover: The vegetative growth out of a water bed or items entered into a body of water that are not a natural part of the bed.

[Tennessee Boy]

Okay I'll go ahead and say it 

 

Texas Rig: A way of attaching a soft plastic bait onto a hook such that the hook's point is embedded into the bait making it weedless.

 

"Jimmy likes to fish a 6 inch Texas rigged worm on his Carolina rig."

 

A Texas Rig is the classic way to fish a plastic worm.  The worm is rig "weedless" and a sliding bullet weight is used.

[Mobasser]

Plug. Old school name for what's now called hard baits.

[gim]

Bird's nest: a back lash that resembles a nasty tangle of fishing line in a bait casting reel so bad that the only way to remove it is cut it out.

[Team9nine]

I’m not even going down this rabbit hole…the cause is already lost ?

[Tennessee Boy]

6 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

I’m not even going down this rabbit hole…the cause is already lost ?

Don't you think it's your duty to defend Buck's definition of structure?  

[Dwight Hottle]

16 minutes ago, Mobasser said:

Plug. Old school name for what's now called hard baits.

How about lure and if your Canadian how about hook? 

[Team9nine]

19 minutes ago, Tennessee Boy said:

Don't you think it's your duty to defend Buck's definition of structure?  

It’s a lonely island that I stand on ?️

You guys can make up whatever definition you want. It’s 2023 - a lost cause by now  

[PhishLI]

3 hours ago, Tatulatard said:

Flipping: making a short cast 

"I just flipped that bait out there with a roll cast"

 

[Pat Brown]

'LET'S GOOOOOO!' : popular celebratory or anticipatory phrase used by anglers when they successfully catch a fish or are preparing to attempt to catch a fish.

[Team9nine]

“BIG ‘UN!” : The premature exclamatory remark made by an angler, often several times in quick succession, upon hooking any sized bass while in competition or with a camera man in the boat (or friend, in non competitive settings).

 

See also: “Giant”

[J Francho]

Misdefined terms to add:

 

Structure: "There is no structure, it's just flat bowl." No, that is the structure. 
 

Texas Rig: rigging a bait weedless. No, a T-Rig has a sliding sinker and a weedless bait. 
 

Weedless Wacky Rig: No, Wacky Hook with a weed/brush guard. 
 

Weed Guards on jigs: No, that's a brush guard. Pretty much useless in weeds if fished incorrectly. 
 

There's more, but I'll stop there. 

[Tatulatard]

39 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Weed Guards on jigs: No, that's a brush guard. Pretty much useless in weeds if fished incorrectly. 

I forgot about that one.  I remember in the 90s that was distinctively a "brush guard".  When did this happen?   

[J Francho]

Just now, Tatulatard said:

When did this happen?   

When YouTube was invented. 

[OkobojiEagle]

A DNR built rock wing-dam... structure or cover?

[Glenn]

The BassResource Fishing Glossary went live in 1998.  Everything posted since then on the Web have (mostly) been direct copies.

 

https://www.bassresource.com/fishing_lures/bass_fishing.html

 

I see I need to add BFS.

[MN Fisher]

9 minutes ago, OkobojiEagle said:

A DNR built rock wing-dam... structure or cover?

Since dams are designed to be permanent, or at least semi-permanent and do not usually change over their life...unlike a decaying stump/tree - I would consider them to be structure.

[Bass Rutten]

Imbouta get me a big un flippin’ ma texas rigged weightless wurm on my heavy action rod up under that structure, lets goooooo!

[BrianMDTX]

Plug(archaic): formerly any hard bait

 

Plug: what you use to recharge the battery in your new $97K pick-up that’s good to tow your bass boat 65 miles 

[WRB]

5 hours ago, Tatulatard said:

Flipping: making a short cast 

"I just flipped that bait out there with a roll cast"

 

Structure: things under water that are hard 

"James got hung up on structure"

 

BFS: casting a light weight bait with a baitcasting reel and rod

"Bubba was using a Majorcraft Finetail BFS rod"

 

This is my collection of definitions to fishing terms that have been lost or re-imagined.  What else am I missing?  "Shallow crankbait" seems to have been lost and replaced with "squarebill".  I don't think we have crossed the threshold on that one yet but we are close.  I did see Matt Allen call a shallow crankbait with a round bill a squarebill as if the term "shallow crankbait" had escaped him. "Another great bait is squarebill [presents bait] but this one has a round bill [visually confused] but its a squarebill..."

0 for 3, your out?
Roll cast isn’t a flip cast

Hard Lured underwater, bridges overwater….

Bubba ain’t using no finesse lures.

Tom

[WRB]

It can be frustrating trying to communicate when everyone has the own different interpretation of language.

It’s go down the rabbit hole fast adding local regional slang let alone fisherman terminology.

Get out the pop corn set back and enjoy.

Tom