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

For this the hook and line are often used; some also use the spoon hook.

From The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 469-532 by MacCauley, Clay

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