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Greg1959

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The cane pole post below got me to thinking......I can't believe the number of people that I've encountered, here in the Pacific Northwest, that call a trot line a 'trout line'. Do y'all, around other parts of the country, encounter this? Even Websters refers to it as a Trot line.
 
I'm guilty, Illinois, and I know better. I also use "warsh" instead of "wash"....and I know better. Lol
 
i use warsh too. drives my wife nutz. prolly why i do it. we call em trot lines. over night bank poles are called bobbie poles. noodling for catfish was called logging. rodding for turtles was just plain turtle in.
 
Grandma who taught me how to fish always refered to it as a trout line. I think it might be different areas pronounce words differently Example, People from the north pronounce pecan differently than in the south
 
Trot line is what I call them but I have heard many people call them trout lines. I grew up in central Illinois and live in NE Indiana now. I think because the two words are very close and a trout being a fish is where the mistaken term comes from.
 
LOL, I thought that was what 'Thunder Pots' in the bedroom was for? When you couldn't get to the outhouse
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Just to confuse more, in my neck-of-the woods,a trout/trot line went from bank to bank (of river) with drop lines. A throw line was secured on one bank and with a weight on other end was thrown into the stream with drop lines attached. Then there were "limb lines" which were attached to a limb hanging over river, one or two hooks.
Good old days, setting lines and running them several times over night. A lot of channel catfish. joe
 
Plus, we saved milk jugs, bleach jugs(anything with a screw-on cap or cork plug), etc. wrote your name on it and tied a line, hook, sinker and bait to each one. Tossed them into pond, lake or any deep enough water hole. Checked the next day...we called that Jug fishing.
 
just popped in to my head..... any body ever fish with yo-yo?s? they were spring loaded metal spools with about 6 feet of nylon line. about the size f a snuff can. ( remember snuff?). you would bait the hook with a chub minnow or big crawdad, hand it from an overhanging branch above the water and spool out enough line for the bait to just be under the surface. then set the trigger. when a fish hit, the trigger released the spring and set the hook. we used them a lot on lake norfork in mountain home arkansas. they made kid of a loud snap then they triggered. you needed a bunch of buddies, a bonfire on shore, plenty of beer and a rowboat. when somebody yelled... yo yo!, youd pile in the boat and go get yer fish. .
 
When I was young growing up on the CA border of MN set lines were common for sturgeon, but not legal for us Caucasians to use. 400 ft of line with 50 hooks, sometimes one end tied to shore, sometimes had to find it with a grapple hook. I did hear the name trot line, but it wasn't very common, never a trout line, there weren't any trout in our river. In the 60's my dad had native Americans working for him in the woods, and they could use set lines legally, and they could sell the fish in Canada, where they were from.
 
Trot lines here in SE Texas. We use them for catfish in the river and geese in the field. Not since I was a kid I should say on the geese thing.

And yes I?ve used yoyo?s but they outlawed them in Texas. I still have some.

Red
 
We always called them trot line. I use to put alot a cross ponds when I was a kid.( even won a contest in the Louisville currier journal with a catfish from one.) Use milk jugs to, once I seen a jug moving across the pasture, the turtle was moving with it.
 
Greg, Called that float fishing (or jug fishing) set several out on river and float with them in rowboat. Keep them out of drifts and watch for fish, that and some beverages make for a peaceful afternoon. Bate with live minnows on short line. joe
 
Yep, trot line.
Almost died one time putting some on the Chattooga River.
River came up 10 feet that night in a short time.
 
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