spoon hook

noun

, Angling.

1. a fishhook equipped with a spoon lure.

Word History and Origins

Origin of spoon hook¹

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

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 Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

One thing the trollers did know,—where the small feed swarmed, in shoal water or deep, those myriads of tiny fish, herring and nameless smaller ones, there the blueback would appear, and when he did so appear he could be taken by a spoon hook.

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