It is debatable how the term "troll" came into our language.For some Arkansans, it means a mythical character living under a bridge. To others, it means to fish with a bait slowly pulled through the water.Never mind. We'll just skip the under-bridge character and talk about fishing. Trolling can be a highly productive method along with a being preliminary step, a locating procedure, toward conventional casting for fish. Trolling has been around forever, though not in the form we are familiar with today.

Anglers long ago learned that moving around was often a key to catching fish, that the fish didn't always come to where you were fishing from the bank. That's why the ancients started fishing from boats.By drifting with the current of a stream or with wind's propulsion, fishermen found out they could cover more territory. read more