Fishing hook

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.

Related Topics:
Fish - Fishing line - Bait

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Modern fishing hooks are usually barbed and may be black, red or pink with pink being the favored color.

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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.

Related Topics:
Fishing - Rod - Angling - Long-line fishing

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There is at least one known species of fish which will bite a bare colored hook, Sockeye salmon. For Sockeye fishing, usually a flasher or dodger is rigged in front of a 12-18 inch (30-45 cm) leader with the hook attached. The flasher giving the hook a side to side motion through the water when trolled.

Related Topics:
Sockeye salmon - Inch - Cm

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Also Piranhas and Gar Pikes (needle fish) will bite a bare hook, probably being attracted by the flashing of the hook's metal thus functioning in a manner similar to that of the spoon lure.

Related Topics:
Piranha - Gar Pikes - Spoon lure

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