trout-line

The medium dressed silk trout-line on a grilse winch was about a hundred yards in length, and quite sound, and on a twisted gut trace I had attached a 3-in. blue phantom.

Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

When the river is rising, or the water is clouded with mud or drift, bass scorn all surface-diet; but the live minnow or crawfish, hellgramite or fish-worm, will capture them on trout-line or hook attached to the soul-absorbing bob.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

Then with vague restlessness you visit the brook in which his trout-line drooped, you pluck a leaf from the elm that shaded his regal head, you walk in the graveyard that holds in its bosom his silent dust, only to feel with unavailing regret that no sunshine of his presence can gleam upon you.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various

"I suppose that silk is finer than the finest trout-line."

Little Busybodies The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Other Busybodies Julia Moody 1919

It was the laird who taught Alexander to spear a salmon, and throw a trout-line, and stalk a deer.

Scottish sketches Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

a rod the tip of which shall be not less than five feet long, weighing not over sixteen ounces in weight, and a line not over a 'twenty-four' or smaller than the usual trout-line.

The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918