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Need someone in the price creek Kent Island area to show me how to layout the line and wind it up. Will Pay Call Jim 484-557-1815

[im2fast4you33]

Need someone in the price creek Kent Island area to show me how to layout the line and wind it up. Will Pay Call Jim 484-557-1815

if you ever make a trip to the choptank let me know, ill show you a thing or 2

[Capt. Charlie]

YouTube should have something.

[Harford Crabber]

Yea, go on youtube and type in Jake Phelps crabbing.  He'll show ya all kinds of stuff and it's a hoot to watch.   You may wanna refine a few things but he'll give ya the basics.

[Neither Crab]

It's called a Troutline , especially on the ES. They won't know what you're talking about if you say Trotline. They'll think you're talking about a line you want a trotter horse to follow down the track. The guys that were not brought up proper around crabbers call them trotlines.

[rdbeard]

wrong

[Neither Crab]

I can see you've never spent much time on the ES.

[Wallco99]

You are the only one on this site that calls it that.

[Crab Shack]

A couple of years ago I asked on Facebook if trotlines were legal here in Florida.  One of the answers I got was "Down here they are called handlines". I said "nevermind" and moved on....

[Mr. Ray III]

Yeah, no one on the eastern shore has ever heard of a trotline...

[Wallco99]

It's called a trotline in DNR regs, and that is what I go by. Since a troutline is not listed under allowable gear to use, then setting troutlines for crabbing is probably illegal. I would suggest calling it by it's actual name, trotline, if boarded by DNR. Or you will probably get that same look, as shown in Ray's & Russ's posts above.

[Stabilizer]

It's called a trotline in DNR regs, and that is what I go by. Since a troutline is not listed under allowable gear to use, then setting troutlines for crabbing is probably illegal. I would suggest calling it by it's actual name, trotline, if boarded by DNR. Or you will probably get that same look, as shown in Ray's & Russ's posts above.

Well that, settles that.

[Neither Crab]

You are the only one on this site that calls it that.

Most of the ES crabbers don't have time to post. They're too busy catching crabs for a living from April until December. They don't care what the DNR or anyone on the western shore calls it. In the winter they catch Arsters not oysters.

[Mr. Ray III]

What you're hearing is the lower eastern shore dialect.  When they say the letter "O" it sounds like a mixture of "O", "A", and "U".  They're saying trotline, just sounds different.

[Steve]

What you're hearing is the lower eastern shore dialect.  When they say the letter "O" it sounds like a mixture of "O", "A", and "U".  They're saying trotline, just sounds different.

That makes the most sense to me.

[Crabbyd]

That makes the most sense to me.

I just scanned the book "Beautiful Swimmers" and the author of the book spells it as "trotline".  The first mention of it is in the Introduction on page XV

[jack1747]

It's "trotline" here...    Like Ray says they talk funny...  I'll explain "big marsh pots" vs. "small marsh pots" to yal some time.   

[Seaweed]

I've seen anybody catch 1 trout on a trotline.  Plenty of crabs, but no trout.

[Seaweed]

It's "trotline" here...    Like Ray says they talk funny...  I'll explain "big marsh pots" vs. "small marsh pots" to yal some time.   

You can understand them face to face, but listen to them on the VHF... forget it