A long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)
1The bow pulley in each dory fairly chuckled with delight as the trawl line was pulled over it.
2Mr. Samuel Wiley, of Gloucester, in September 1893, caught a salmon at sea off Gloucester on a trawl line fished for hake.
3In December, 1891, a salmon weighing 28 pounds was caught on a cod trawl line set near Halfway Rock, off Salem Harbor, Mass.
4Mr. Mayo states that these were the first salmon ever taken on trawl lines in that region.
5Hake are found in the deep water on the W. and SW. in spring, summer, and fall; trawl lines principally are used here.