troll
verb (used with object)
to fish for or in with a moving line, either working the line up or down with a rod as in fishing for pike, or trailing the line behind a slow-moving boat.
had trolled
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past perfectof troll.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Under a canopy of blimps and patrol planes, he had trolled for bluefish and bonito 15 miles out in the Atlantic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dick, Dave and Greg had whipped up and down the stream in turn; Tom and Dan had trolled the lake for bass.
From The High School Boys' Fishing Trip by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
During those twenty-one days we had trolled fifteen hundred miles, altogether, up and down that twenty-five-mile coast of rugged Clemente.
From Tales of Fishes by Zane Grey
Smith had trolled scarcely a quarter of a mile, when his hook was struck by a trout, and then commenced a struggle that was pleasant to witness.
From Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod by S. H. (Samuel H.) Hammond
And we had trolled round these fish in every conceivable way.
From Tales of Fishes by Zane Grey
