NOUN
- a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
How To Use trotline In A Sentence
- We ran crab traps and trotlines in the bay with our fathers, baited crawfish nets with bloody chunks of nutria meat, cleaned boxes of mudcat with knife and pliers, and never thought of it as work. Heaven’s Prisoners
- We cooked outside, on a butane burner his father melted lead with to mold his trotline weights.
- Cajun fishermen invented or modified numerous devices: nets and seines, crab traps, shrimp boxes, bait boxes, trotlines, and frog grabs.
- But the people running trotlines and grabbling are kind of backwoodsy," Jackson says. In the Monster's Maw
- When I was a boy, my brother and I would trap them with our straw hats, bait our trotline with them at sunset and string it between two abandoned oil platforms, and in the morning the line would be so taut and heavy with mudcat that it would take both of us to lift it clear of the water. Heaven’s Prisoners
