spoon hook
noun1
Synonym of spoon lure.
- When a pickerel seizes a spoon hook it is either well hooked or lost at the moment of contact, as the fish knows at once that it has made a mistake, and will get rid of the combination of steel and other ingredients if possible.1898, Forest and Stream - Volume 50:
- The next time you are trout fishing and none of your lures tempts the fish, smoke a spoon hook and cast it.2008, Popular Mechanics, How to Tempt a Fish: A Complete Guide to Fishing, page 20:
1 more example
- Tie a 6- to 8-inch piece of light mono to the spoon hook then add a 1/64- or 1/32-ounce crappie jig to the tag end.2012, Keith Sutton, The Crappie Fishing Handbook: