spoon hook

plural spoon hooks · alternative spoonhook · alternative spoon-hook

1. Synonym of spoon lure.

   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

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   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

   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

   Synonyms: spoon lure