spoonhook

plural spoonhooks

1. alternativeAlternative form of spoon hook.

   The carp had, in some time past, swallowed a No. 4 spoonhook.

   1928, Fins, Feathers and Fur, page 242

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   He caught six or eight fine connies on a stout hand line and spoonhook, simply by throwing the spoonhook out as far as he could and pulling it in hand over hand.

   1916, Emerson Hough, Let Us Go Afield, page 77

   Early in the season, they take the spoonhook freely, but by the middle of July or the first of August they retire into deep water.

   1923, Dietrich Lange, Good Times in the Woods, page 127