*As a verb: to tickle the belly of a trout, thereby making it easily caught with the hands. (Like the old advice about salting a bird’s tail as an aid to catching it, there is no mention of the fact that if the trout stays still long enough to allow one to tickle its belly, then surely it is amenable to being picked up in the hands.) | *As a verb: to tickle the belly of a trout, thereby making it easily caught with the hands. (Like the old advice about salting a bird’s tail as an aid to catching it, there is no mention of the fact that if the trout stays still long enough to allow one to tickle its belly, then surely it is amenable to being picked up in the hands.) |