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  2. Fish aggregating device - Wikipedia

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    They usually consist of buoys or floats tethered to the ocean floor. Various types of FADs have been employed in the traditional fishing cultures of Island Southeast Asia (especially in the Philippines), Japan, and Malta for centuries. Modern FADs are increasingly being used in modern commercial and sport fishing. [1]

  3. Fishing float - Wikipedia

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    Fishing rod float. Lake Baikal. Eastern Siberia. It is impossible to say with any degree of accuracy who first used a float for indicating that a fish had taken the bait, but it can be said with some certainty that people used pieces of twig, bird feather quills or rolled leaves as bite indicators, many years before any documented evidence.

  4. Glass float - Wikipedia

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    A Japanese glass fishing float. Glass floats were used by fishermen in many parts of the world to keep their fishing nets, as well as longlines or droplines, afloat.. Large groups of fishnets strung together, sometimes 50 miles (80 km) long, were set adrift in the ocean and supported near the surface by hollow glass balls or cylinders containing air to give them buoyancy.

  5. Bite indicator - Wikipedia

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    There are many types of bite indicators. Which ones work best depends on the type of fishing. 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 ...

  6. Surrounding net - Wikipedia

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    A surrounding net is deployed by a fishing boat that starts sailing in a circle. This allows for the net to come all the way around 360 degrees to completely surround the fish. This makes it so that there is no escape for the fish. There are floating buoys on the top of the net and weights on the bottom of the net to make sure that it forms a wall.

  7. Bombarda - Wikipedia

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    Bombarda is a type of weighted float used in rod and reel fishing. The main line is passed through the bombarda. The end of the main line is tied to a swivel, to the other end of the swivel a three to six foot terminal line with hook is tied. The bombarda when cast, sinks slowly, at the same time, it is reeled in.

  8. How do boaters avoid hazards? What to know about markers ...

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    Just like traffic lights and signs help drivers on the road, boaters have buoys and signs to guide them to and from shore safely.

  9. Buoy - Wikipedia

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    Ice marking buoys mark holes in frozen lakes and rivers so snowmobiles do not drive over the holes. Large Navigational Buoys (LNB, or Lanby buoys) are automatic buoys over 10 meters high equipped with a powerful light monitored electronically as a replacement for a lightvessel. [11] They may be marked on charts as a "Superbuoy." [12] Lateral ...

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