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Before 'trolling' became popular, 'trawling' was common and correct use for this case. Same kina use as fishing trawlers. The dictionary has more detail.
by bravoetch 6y ago
Before 'trolling' became popular, 'trawling' was common and correct use for this case. Same kina use as fishing trawlers. The dictionary has more detail.
- chrisseaton 6y agoBut trolling is also a type of fishing - you drag a line and try to catch people/fish on your bait (the phone call from the supposed son). That seems the perfect metaphor for what they were doing? They weren't dragging a big industrial net trying to catch anything at random passively (trawling) because they were trying to get individual people by calling them up one by one trying to get them to bite.
- mulmen 6y agoSurely "spear (ph|f)ishing" is the most appropriate fishing analogy here because it targets an individual?
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