spoon-hook

plural spoon-hooks

1. alternativeAlternative form of spoon hook.

   On the end is a monster spoon-hook, gaily ornamented with gaudy feathers.

   2010, Nick Lyons, The Best Fishing Stories Ever Told, page 143

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   This was done with a rod and a small spoon-hook, and the favorable spots were whipped from the end of the canoe, just as one would cast for trout in a lake.

   1991, John Charles Van Dyke, The open spaces: incidents of nights and days under the blue sky, page 185

   There had been a good deal of discussion of the fishing question between the two young friends, for Two Arrows knew nothing of the powers of a "spoon-hook."

   2017, William Stoddard, Two Arrows: A Story of Red and White