[f. TROUT sb.1 + -ING1.] Fishing for trout, trout-fishing.
a. 1768. Erskine, Inst. Law Scot., II. ix. § 13. Depriving him of the pleasure of trouting.
1827. Scott, Surg. Dau., v. The game was plenty, and the trouting in the brook such as had been represented by advertisement.
b. attrib.
1806. Gazetteer Scotl. (ed. 2), 558. Venny or Finny; a small rivulet of Angus-shire,… is a fine trouting-stream.
1833. J. Rennie, Alph. Angling, 64. A trouting-rod is usually made from twelve to fifteen feet.
1883. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4), 176. Salmon Lines, Deep Sea Lines, Trouting Lines.
1896. Westm. Gaz., 16 Sept., 3/3. The one good trouting loch in Scotland is Loch Leven.
c. as pres. pple. (chiefly after go).
a. 1845. Hood, To I. Walton, 65. Sham flies to go trolling and trouting.
1866. Alger, Solit. Nat. & Man, III. 181. The loneliness of Izaak Walton trouting in a secluded glen.
1899. Q. Rev., Jan., 88. At Villeneuve he goes trouting in the dark with the servant of the inn.
