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2. Fishing sinker - Wikipedia

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   A fishing sinker, plummet, or knoch is a weight used in conjunction with a fishing lure or hook to increase its rate of sink, anchoring ability, and/or casting distance. Fishing sinkers may be as small as 1 gram (0.035 oz) for applications in shallow water, and even smaller for fly fishing applications, or as large as several pounds (>1 kg) or ...

3. Bite indicator - Wikipedia

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   Fishing floats: lightweight buoys widely used as bite indicators. Floats oscillate in and out of the water surface when the hook suspended below is pulled by fish biting the hookbait. They are usually "cocked" by different split shot weights so that just the brightly coloured tip of the float is showing above the surface.

4. Shot (pellet) - Wikipedia

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   Split shot, used for fishing Split shot close-up. When used as a pourable/mouldable weight, lead shot may be left loose, or mixed with a bonding agent such as epoxy to contain and stabilize the pellets after they are poured. Some applications of lead shot are: As ballast in various situations, especially where a dense, pourable weight is ...

5. Fishing reel - Wikipedia

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   Parts of a spinning reel: 1: Pick up or bail 2: Reel seat 3: Reel foot 4: Handle 5: Support arm 6: Anti-reverse lever 7: Skirted spool 8: Fishing line 9: Drag adjustment knob. A fishing reel is a hand- cranked reel used in angling to wind and stow fishing line, [1] typically mounted onto a fishing rod, but may also be used on compound bows or ...

6. Plastic worm - Wikipedia

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   Commonly they are used with a small fish hook and a split shot weight to keep the lure deeper in the water. The fishing equipment recommended is a 7-foot fishing rod with 8 to 10 lb (3.6 to 4.5 kg) fishing line. A common fishing strategy is to configure them as a Texas Rig, and bounce them off the bottom. The key is to jig near or in cover such ...

7. Lead weights and lie detectors: The scandal that rocked a ...

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   As Runyan stood silently and watched, Fischer cut into the rest of the fish, pulling weight after weight and fillet after fillet — apparently used to keep the sinkers from clacking into one ...