herring used as bait in mooching.
See also: mooching
- 1961  . . . wise in the ways of a mooched, whole herring [he] took two quick salmon 13 miles down the inlet. . . .
- 1961  . . . taking 11 prizes each are plugs ... and mooched or trolled herring . . . the latter as strip, plug-cut or whole bait.