Coke bottles and good trot-line string with hooks for same. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Pretty soon I found a man out in the river with a skiff, setting a trot-line. ❋ Unknown (2003)
This blockade was facetiously called by the men, "Pillow's trot-line." ❋ William G. Stevenson (N/A)
It was our custom to stretch a stout trot-line across this stream, tying to this short lines, each with a suitable hook attached, about three feet apart. ❋ John Allan (1914)
They were chained six and six together; a small iron clevis was around the left wrist of each, and this was fastened to the main chain by a shorter one, at a convenient distance from the others, so that the negroes were strung together like so many fish upon a trot-line. ❋ Browne, Francis F (1913)
Meeting Fishhead one day in the spring on the spindly scaffolding of the skiff landing at Walnut Log, and being themselves far overtaken in liquor and vainglorious with a bogus alcoholic substitute for courage, the brothers had accused him, wantonly and without proof, of running their trot-line and stripping it of the hooked catch -- an unforgivable sin among the water dwellers and the shanty boaters of the South. ❋ Unknown (1910)
CLERK OF A STRATFORD COURT; just as a bright lad like me, reared in a village on the banks of the Mississippi, might become perfect in knowledge of the Bering Strait whale-fishery and the shop-talk of the veteran exercises of that adventure-bristling trade through catching catfish with a "trot-line" Sundays. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
They rarely had recreation, excepting that of taking the fish off their trot-line in the morning, when there were any on it. ❋ Edward Eggleston (1869)
They got a "gang," or, as they called it, a "trot-line," to lay down in the river for catfish, perch, and shovel-nose sturgeon, for there was no game-law then. ❋ Edward Eggleston (1869)
A harvester in a flat-bottomed boat sets the traps with a fish-like bait and runs the lines as a fisherman would a shallow trot-line, Bieri said. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Though he's not known to have written anything that referred directly to the slaves he saw at Farmington, he wrote in September 1841 to Mary Speed, a sister of Joshua and James, about seeing the slaves on the steamboat, saying they "were strung together precisely like so many fish on a trot-line."
It is surmised by the biographers that the young Shakespeare got his vast knowledge of the law and his familiar and accurate acquaintance with the manners and customs and shop-talk of lawyers through being for a time the clerk of a Stratford court; just as a bright lad like me, reared in a village on the banks of the Mississippi, might become perfect in knowledge of the Bering Strait whale-fishery and the shop-talk of the veteran exercisers of that adventure-bristling trade through catching catfish with a "trot-line" Sundays. ❋ Unknown (1909)
_clerk of a Stratford court_; just as a bright lad like me, reared in a village on the banks of the Mississippi, might become perfect in knowledge of the Behring Strait whale-fishery and the shop-talk of the veteran exercisers of that adventure-bristling trade through catching catfish with a "trot-line" Sundays. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
Bill: Hey Tom! I took [Kate] out on a date last night. We had [a good time].
Tom: WTF Bill! Why are you runnin my trot lines!!! I have been trying to [get with] Kate all week man. ❋ (2020)
