Thread: Trotlines

I seldom use them anymore, but still as long as they are legal the fishermen have the right to use them. I hated it when mine were cut. Yesterday a guy I was fishing with was helping me get my jig off one. Well he says here I got the remedy for that (a knife). well I declined his offer and got unhooked which is difficult when the hook is in the twine. Then dropped it back in intact.:D

I salute your integrity!! it is hard to not to cut them in that situation. i trot line fish a bit as well and hate it when peeps cut them. I always do my best to avoid putting the lines in situations where people will encounter them.

Sry to hear your trolling motor is down but i am sure you will be up and runnin soon and slayin those Crappie again.

How far is it to Nimrod from Sherwood?

Originally Posted by Fetmo

I salute your integrity!! it is hard to not to cut them in that situation. i trot line fish a bit as well and hate it when peeps cut them. I always do my best to avoid putting the lines in situations where people will encounter them.

Sry to hear your trolling motor is down but i am sure you will be up and runnin soon and slayin those Crappie again.

How far is it to Nimrod from Sherwood?

About 80 miles I figure.

I have used them in the past but what makes me mad about them is when you run across one and they are just left out there or for me the big one is when they strech them across a bay and just leave them so people get hung up in them and also are bad on boaters and other people. but as long as you follow the law.

Only trot lines I will cut are the ones someone abandons, drops with rusted off hooks. I never liked it when somebody cut mine but I never left one out till the hooks rusted off either.

I aint cutting anyone's trotlines. That might not be my way of fishing but it is somebody's. I wouldnt want anyone messing with my stuff so I wont mess with theirs.

I love to run trotlines but do not get to do it often enough, however when I do have a line out I always get it no matter how bad the weather or how rushed I am for time. It makes me sick to my stomach to see decaying fish or birds tangled up on old lines of any kind. Ex trotlines, limblines, yo-yos.

Too many people think of trotlines as being disposable----they put them out, fish a few days and leave them. Hard not to feel bad toward them when you lose several crankbaits, or get 5 or 6, poles hung up spider rigging in an abandoned trotline.

For me, trotlines are too much work to leave them out when not in use... The hooks are expensive, the swivels are expensive, and the weights are not free. I pick mine up at the end of each weeekend... I also don't put mine in areas tat people will catch them, a drop weight close to the bank gets the line down and out of fishermen's way.

I've been fishing all my lines blind for 5 or 6 years. I'll get an occasonial line set out across mine. I run my lines everyday, and can tell if the line across mine is a weekend line or is being baited often. Weekend trotline...you got 8 days to bait it or take it up or it's mine.

I've ran one of my lines for a month with another guys line across mine and he was baiting his line every other day with slicks and we were both catching fish. He picked his up one day. Never seen him.