trout-rod

Long, long ago, we possessed a favorite trout-rod fitted with a Hollow Butt, and so it is that whenever we see a Halibut, trouting comes to our mind.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 06, May 7, 1870 Various

Have you ever climbed down a cañon with rocky sides, a straight and precipitous five hundred feet, clinging with your finger nails to any bit of green that grows from the cliff, and to footholds made by an axe, and carrying a fly-book and a trout-rod which is an infinitely precious trout-rod?

Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

There he was, the mighty, ferocious beast -- and my only weapon a trout-rod!

Ways of Wood Folk William Joseph Long 1909

Then Major Kinnaird strolled away with a trout-rod to a neighboring rapid, and Mrs. Kinnaird went to sleep in a hammock.

The Gold Trail Harold Bindloss 1905

Honoria, perched on the terraced wall, with her legs dangling, was making imaginary casts with a trout-rod, when she heard footsteps.

The Ship of Stars Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

As we climbed the last slope under the terraces of the house, I caught sight of my father leaning by a balustrade high above us, at the head of a double flight of broad stone steps, and splicing the top joint of a trout-rod he had broken the day before.

Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

G----, a few sentences back, playing his unexpected salmon, on a trout-rod, in the Saguenay.

Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things Henry Van Dyke 1892

G----, fishing with a small trout-rod, a poor, short line, and an ancient red ibis of the common kind, rose and hooked

Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things Henry Van Dyke 1892

The squire's sons have lost immense trout in the Drone as it saunters through their lands, and most of them have duly earned thereby the distinction (in Middleshire) of being the best trout-rod in England.

Red Pottage Mary Cholmondeley 1892

I asked for nothing better, but I had no trout-rod with me.

The Days Before Yesterday Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892