spoon hook

English

Alternative forms

• spoonhook, spoon-hook

Noun

spoon hook (plural spoon hooks)

1. Synonym of spoon lure
   • 1898, Forest and Stream - Volume 50:

     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.

   • 2008, Popular Mechanics, How to Tempt a Fish: A Complete Guide to Fishing, page 20:

     The next time you are trout fishing and none of your lures tempts the fish, smoke a spoon hook and cast it.

   • 2012, Keith Sutton, The Crappie Fishing Handbook:

     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.