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Portion of trotline, showing method of baiting on snoods
A trotline is a heavy fishing line with shorter, baited branch lines commonly referred to as snoods suspending down at intervals using clips or swivels, with a hook at the free end of each snood.
Trotlines are used in commercial angling and can be set up across a channel, river, or stream to cover an entire span of water. There are many ways to set a trotline, with most methods involving weights at the end of snoods to keep them neatly below the water surface. They are used for catching crabs[1] or fish (particularly catfish[2]). Trotlines should be used with caution as they are deemed illegal in many locations.
Trotlines are similar to a longline, but longlines are fixed to a surface vessel at only one end and usually towed along the water, while trotlines are fixed (usually stationarily) to the surface at both ends via anchored boats, buoys or structures. It is also contrasted with droplines, as a trotline's mainline is laid horizontally across water with a series of vertically suspended snood lines, while a dropline's mainline is suspended vertically (using a weight) from a floating bouy with a series of side-branching snoods.
^"Using a trotline to catch blue crabs".
^"Trotlines for Catfish - Trotline Fishing - Trot Lines, Troutlines, Throw Lines and Bank Lines". Archived from the original on 2012-03-22. Retrieved 2012-05-26.
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can be contrasted with trotlines. Whereas a dropline has a series of hooks suspended sideways off a vertical mainline, a trotline has a series of hooks...
crabs. Use of commercial trotlines is now mostly limited to the tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay. In the Gulf of Mexico, trotline use drastically declined...
the fight.[citation needed] One researcher reported good success with trotline fishing techniques, which he used to catch a large sample of black drum...
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fishes caught in fishermen's nets and seines as well as those hooked on trotlines or gaffed. This fish species is a smaller Pimelodid, and may be appropriate...
but commercial fisheries also use angling methods such as longlining, trotlining or trolling. In many parts of the world, a fishing licence is mandated...
suckers. Catfish have even been known to take Ivory soap as bait. Juglines, trotlines, limb lines, and bank lines are popular methods of fishing for channel...
without having to cast and retrieve lures constantly. Longline fishing and trotlining are commercial fishing technique that uses many secondary lines with baited...
with a baited hook to catch trout. He trolled about a thousand hooks on a trotline behind his traditional Finnish fishing rowing boat, known in Finnish as...
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nets were the preferred methods for harvesting fish; however, baited trotlines, basket traps, and weirs were often used for small-scale fishing. Ethnographic...
and/or by the researchers themselves. Some scientists use cast nets, trotlines, or other means to catch many individual fish at once for measurement...
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