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Contents 1 Changed Fishing Hook to Fish hook 2 Treble hook 3 Trivia 4 External links 5 Addition of Tone Tag on Fish hook article 6 Salmon Fly Image

[edit] Changed Fishing Hook to Fish hook

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A fishing hook is a hook used to catch fish. It may be barbed or barbless. It is usually attached to a fishing line. In general the hook is concealed within the bait or trailed closely behind or within the lure.

Ancient fishing hooks were most often fashioned from bone or wood. Steel hooks, which generally have an advantage in the ability to pierce a fish's mouth, later became prevalent.

Modern fishing hooks are usually barbed and are finished in bronze or nickel plating or are galvanised, and thus are bronze, silver or matte grey in colour. Hooks, of course, exist in a range of graded, numbered sizes for different fish (see diagram). Several different hook shape classes also exist allowing for the differing dimensions of a fish's mouth, and for the preferences of an angler (see diagram). New hook technologies now allow hooks to be finished in a variety of colours including red, black, green, gold and pink, with red and black finishes in particular becoming very popular.

There is at least one known species of fish which will bite a bare hook if it is coloured, Sockeye salmon. Taking this a step further are Piranhas, Gar Pikes (needle fish) and Mackerel; these will bite any bare hook if it is moving, probably being attracted by the flashing of the hook's metal resembling small prey fish, thus functioning in a manner similar to that of the spoon lure.

Often it is desirable for a fish, having been caught, to be released. Barbless hooks (usually created by crushing barbs flat with needle-nosed pliers) are often used to aid the release of fish. If a hook has been swallowed deeply by a fish, it should not be attempted to remove the hook. The line should be cut as close to the hook as possible, or if possible the hook itself cut close to the barb, and the fish released. The metal hook is thought to gradually corrode away in the water.

Fishing with a hook, line and rod is called angling. Long-line fishing is a commercial fishing technique that uses hundreds or even thousands of baited hooks hanging from a single line.

One of the worlds largest manufacturers of fishing hooks is Mustad.

[edit] Treble hook

A treble hook is a fishing hook with a single eye and shaft but three hook points set 120 degrees apart from each other, similar in design and appearance to grappling hooks. They are usually used on lures (artificial bait) to catch fish. There are many different types of brands that are available on the market.

They are occasionally used to snag baitfish in thick schools off piers, jetties, bridges, etc. This practice is however illegal in many areas.

[edit] Trivia

The Norwegian municipalities of Frøya, Træna and Øksnes have old fiskhooks in their coat-of-arms.

[edit] External links

• Hook History
• Fishing Hook Explanation of Different Types of Fishing Hooks

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--Mike Cline 22:08, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Addition of Tone Tag on Fish hook article

For User:Trcunning

It might be more helpful if you would make specific suggestions on the talk page about what aspects of the section you feel are of an inappropriate tone. Merely slapping the tag on the section without any comments or explainations isn't very useful. Even better would be your rewriting those sections into an appropriate tone.--Mike Cline 11:39, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Salmon Fly Image

This article is about fish hooks. Although I have no objection to the Salmon Fly image. The image and caption should emphasize the HOOK not the fly. In the current image, the hook is barely visible.--Mike Cline (talk) 21:30, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Maybe so. What about the lures image as well? - that just shows things that are attached to hooks, as the caption indicates. --MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:36, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

I think a Salmon fly image is fine to demonstrate one of the 3 ways hooks are generally used (as explained in the opening section)--attached to Lures, to hold Bait, and as a foundation for artificial flies. A salmon fly image does that nicely as long as it captioned something like this: A XXXX hook used for a XXXXX Salmon fly. The emphasis is on the hook not the fly--thus the hook should be clearly visible. We need a Hook-Bait image and I have been meaning to dig a worm, impale it and photograph it. Hopes this clarifies my thoughts.--Mike Cline (talk) 21:45, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps consider using Image:Green Highlander salmon fly.jpg instead, as that has a more visible hook? --MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:54, 13 February 2008 (UTC)