ERWIN, Tenn. (WJHL) — A trotline is a fishing line with baited hooks used to catch multiple fish at once. It also happens to be at the center of a controversy in Unicoi County. On Memorial Day weekend ...

Here’s a question that may stump even the most experienced angler? How did trotlines get their name? How the term “trotline” became the name for this well-known stationary fishing device, which ...

Tim Stillings, Morrisville, caught a 7-pound, 8-ounce walleye from the Sac River on May 16 using a trotline, breaking the previous alternative methods record of 6-pounds, 14-ounces set in 2018. “We ...

UNICOI COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL) — The American Canoe Association (ACA) in Tennessee is calling on the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) and state legislators to update trotline regulations for ...

Fishing was excellent this past Friday morning as young and handsome "Raoul" (neither his real name nor an honest physical description) worked lures around the edges of the old slough and regularly ...

A Missouri fisherman caught a record-breaking walleye with a trotline, which is a "dying art" in fishing. Tim Stillings caught the fish on May 16 in the Sac River, in the southwest of the state. The ...

A 13-year-old boy is now in Missouri's fish-record book after catching the first state-record yellow perch using a trotline. Isaac Bohm, of Huntsville, pulled in the fish at a private pond in Randolph ...

ERWIN, Tenn. — After a kayak student was entangled in a trotline, a top kayak safety instructor cut the line to prevent injuries to other paddlers floating down the Nolichucky River over Memorial ...