"The Franklins was running a trotline with the hooks too close together.

In the summer he ran a trotline, try- ing to catch crabs.

There are many ways to set a trotline, with most methods involving weights to hold the cord below the surface of the water.

The body was snagged on a trotline--- a fishing line set out in the river.

A float on each side of a section of channel is a good indication that a trotline has been set.

"Nearly worked, too, except she got hung up on that trotline when she tried to dive.

A trotline is defined as "a comparatively short setline used near shore or along streams."

"A trotline is a length of fishing line that's usually attached on either end to some kind of float.

One researcher reported good success with trotline fishing techniques, which he used to catch a large sample of black drum for tagging and scientific study.

Constructing a trotline is quite simple.

"No." "Then if they hadna been pulling up on the trotline they never would have found her.

He trolled about a thousand hooks on a trotline behind his traditional Finnish fishing boat, known as a soutuvene.

A trotline is a heavy fishing line with baited hooks attached at intervals by means of branch lines called snoods.

When I'd bought the fish, the Stillwater bait supplier had lectured me on trotline fishing at great length.

Ed and Melinda Roberts demonstrate how to set up trotline in the Mississippi River.

Each trotline's a pulley that supports a dozen hooked leaders dangling in the water, held to one-meter depth with plastic floaters.

In its use in the commercial crabbing industry (on the Chesapeake Bay for example), a trotline is used as a variation of a setline.

A section of the trotline and treble fishhooks that had entangled and held the body in the moving river was still wrapped around the lower leg.

A trotline can be set so it covers the width of a channel, river, or stream with baited hooks and can be left unattended.

The crab having been netted at the surface, the trotline moves back to or toward the bottom with the same bait intact to attract another crab.

A trotline is a baited, hook-less, long line that is usually anchored on the bottom and attached to anchored buoys.

This trotline is baited and after some time, the fisherman pulls the trotline up with crabs hopefully biting on the bait.

Before constructing the trotline, it is a good idea to measure the span of the body of water being fished in order to give the main line an appropriate length.

(Fred Cassidy of DARE thinks that comes from a dead catfish on a trotline, evidence that a lazy fisherman has not been checking his poles.

Whereas a dropline has a series of hooks suspended vertically in the water, a trotline has a series of hooks suspended horizontally in the water.