handlining

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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fishing with handlines.

Quotations

1946

. . . she was but one of those Irish wastrels up the Bay who made a living of sorts by hand lining and, on shore, hunting out of season.

1954

He spent the days running traul and hand-lining, splitting fish and turning them on the flakes he had set up behind Stewart's hut on the beach.