FISHING HOOKS
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ABOUT
FISHING HOOKS
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 galvanized, and thus are bronze,
silver or matte grey in color. 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 colors including red, black, green,
gold and pink, with red and black
finishes in particular becoming very
popular.
Types of
Hooks
There is at least one known species of
fish which will bite a bare hook if it
is colored, Sockeye salmon. Taking this
a
step furtherare 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
little 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.
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