### animal | vertebrate | fish:

Angler
* Many anglers gather worms in a lawn after a rain or late at night with a flashlight
  - hook baitfish through the lower lip and out the upper lip
  - use waders, float tubes or canoes to expand their opportunities to catch a trout
* Most anglers have teeth
  - hold off the end of a fallen tree, quickly hitting the trunk and the largest limbs
  - keep a dry set of clothes in their vehicles in case they get wet
* Most anglers prefer night during summer when days are warmer
  - to fish when the weather is warm
  - simply shuffle their feet to avoid stingrays
* Most anglers use canoes or small aluminum boats
  - flat-bottom boats, to navigate the sand bars and river rocks
* Some anglers also know that striped bass feed on baby flounder
  - are housewives
  - believe fishing for sharks at night is better than in the day
  - prefer very small dabs so they can be chewed on, bones and all
* Some anglers use a cotton glove on their hand when tailing a fish
  - cigar boxes, or sewing boxes, or even their hats to store their tackle
  - downriggers to control the fishing depth, or to slow troll bait or lures
  - lead-weighted hooks, called jigs
  - small fish as live bait for larger predatory fish
  - stoves and heaters in their shanty to keep warm
  - tiny spinner blades and beads on their hooks to serve as additional attractors
* adapt well to life in captivity, and are relatively hardy.
* also use jigs or spec rigs to catch kingfish.
* are fishermans
  - frequently interested in the age of walleye they have caught
  - responsible for carefully releasing bull trout in closed waters
  - schemers
  - video games
* bony fish
* can also fish for bass, bluegills, sunfish, crappie and catfish
  - scoop minnows, crawfish or grass shrimp in roadside ditches or small streams
* can catch bass all year long in deep water
  - catfish, white perch, and striped bass
  - chase largemouth bass, bluegill, crappie, catfish, or pickerel
* can fish for perch, bass, pike, cutthroat and rainbow trout, and kokanee salmon
  - corbina, grunion and yellow-fin croaker
  - smallmouth, largemouth, and spotted bass
  - help prevent infections by taking extra care when returning fish to the water
  - rub off the winter's rust, and drink in the green shimmer of the new leaves
  - use information about temperature and oxygen levels to decide when and where to fish
* catch fish
  - lingcod in the waters of California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska
  - walleye, crappie, sauger, white bass and channel catfish
* chase fish.
* continue to throw plastics and spinnerbaits in shallow water.
* differ in their attitudes about fishing for nesting bass.
* fish for gar, crappie, bowfin, bream species, buffalo, carp and catfish
  - salmon with rod and reel, often using flies as bait
  - steelhead and salmon during the winter season
  - remote waters such as One Horse Gap Lake
* frequently see flounders popping the surface as they attack prey along shorelines.
* have harvest
  - preference
  - teeth in their throats to prevent prey from escaping
* includes brains
  - breasts
  - cell membranes
  - chest cavities
  - chests
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - ears
  - faces
  - fish scales
  - fishbones
  - flippers
  - heads
  - nuclei
  - pedal extremities
  - plasma membranes
  - rib cages
  - sections
  - skulls
  - sperm
  - sterna
  - tail fins
  - vacuoles
  - vertebrate feet
  - yolks
* often catch bass, catfish, and walleye
  - refer to the red wormlike larvae as blood worms or blood midges
* often use cast nets to target small striped mullets for use as live bait
  - sinkers and jigs containing lead
  - wire leaders to prevent the sharp teeth of the bluefish from cutting their lines
* persist in winter, bearing augers for ice fishing.
* sometimes describe trolling as a boat ride occasionally interrupted by a fish
  - refer to yellow perch as jumbo perch or jack perch
* tend to fish perch lakes down until their is nothing left.
* use a much shorter pole, often made partially of wood for ice fishing
  - huge quantities of groundbait to attract fish to fishing areas
  - maggots usually provided by commercial suppliers to catch non-predatory fish
  - the clams as live bait, and whole clams sometimes survive
* using boats can be at risk when it comes to boating and boat safety.
* usually use live shad and jigging spoons to catch hybrids and schooling sand bass.
* wait for fish.
* watch fish.