spoon hook

American  

noun

Angling.

1. a fishhook equipped with a spoon lure.

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Etymology

Origin of spoon hook

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

Among the itemized expenses were: motorboat hire, $60; mineral water, $31; Minnesota fishing licenses, $22; one spoon hook, $1.25; three sinkers, 15¢; can of minnows, 75¢.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes, the fisherman uses a spoon hook or other bait in which the hooks are hidden beneath some bright-colored feathers or other material which looks tempting to the fish.

From Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks by Griswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph)

And always at such times they struck savagely at a glittering spoon hook.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney

It proved to be a new spoon hook, bright and shiny, with gleaming red and silver, and a bunch of bright feathers covering the hooks at the end.

From The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill by Smith, Ruel Perley

He may only be taken in commercial quantities by a spinner or a wobbling spoon hook of silver or brass or copper drawn through the water at slow speed.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney