This method is preferred when fishing the bait off the bottom.
Down in a Confederate submarine during the Civil War, an experimental vessel fished from the bottom after drowning its first two crews, is the last place most of us would want to imagine going.
The skull was fished from the bottom of the Solo River in Sambungmacan in central Java, and thus cannot be dated from surrounding sediments, but its features suggest that it is probably 750,000 to 1 million years old.
I cast long and short, played the surface with a caddis fly, switched to a nymph to fish the bottom, strategized to no end, but nothing doing.
It is above all a gorgeous film to watch, especially with the shots underwater of uniform schools of silvery fish, the bottom of the boat floating overhead, circular like a mandala, or the moody pans on a brow-stricken sky.
The crab and lobster and eel pots of the baymen who used the towers as their landmark drift along, lost, ghost fishing on the bottom of the harbor.
— Jeff Gordinier Mercury News: Environmentalists seek better protection for anchovies, sardines and other forage fish at the bottom of the fish-food chain.
Conventional otter trawls fish on the bottom but over rough ground pelagic trawls may be fished just off the seabed to avoid fouling the gear.
You may need to find different combinations of food or feeding times if the fish at the surface eat all the food intended for the fish at the bottom.
He's flip-flopped like a fresh-caught-fish in the bottom of the boat.
