Talk:Fish hook

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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 galvanised, and thus are bronze, silver or matte grey in colour. 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 colours including red, black, green, gold and pink, with red and black finishes in particular becoming very popular.

There is at least one known species of fish which will bite a bare hook if it is coloured, Sockeye salmon. Taking this a step further are 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 small 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.

Treble hook
A treble hook is a fishing hook with a single eye and shaft but three hook points set 120 degrees apart from each other, similar in design and appearance to grappling hooks. They are usually used on lures (artificial bait) to catch fish. There are many different types of brands that are available on the market.

They are occasionally used to snag baitfish in thick schools off piers, jetties, bridges, etc. This practice is however illegal in many areas.

Trivia
The Norwegian municipalities of Frøya, Træna and Øksnes have old fiskhooks in their coat-of-arms.

Addition of Tone Tag on Fish hook article
For User:Trcunning

It might be more helpful if you would make specific suggestions on the talk page about what aspects of the section you feel are of an inappropriate tone. Merely slapping the tag on the section without any comments or explainations isn't very useful. Even better would be your rewriting those sections into an appropriate tone.--Mike Cline 11:39, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Salmon Fly Image
This article is about fish hooks. Although I have no objection to the Salmon Fly image. The image and caption should emphasize the HOOK not the fly. In the current image, the hook is barely visible.--Mike Cline (talk) 21:30, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Maybe so. What about the lures image as well? - that just shows things that are attached to hooks, as the caption indicates.  --MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:36, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I think a Salmon fly image is fine to demonstrate one of the 3 ways hooks are generally used (as explained in the opening section)--attached to Lures, to hold Bait, and as a foundation for artificial flies. A salmon fly image does that nicely as long as it captioned something like this:  A XXXX hook used for a XXXXX Salmon fly.  The emphasis is on the hook not the fly--thus the hook should be clearly visible.  We need a Hook-Bait image and I have been meaning to dig a worm, impale it and photograph it.  Hopes this clarifies my thoughts.--Mike Cline (talk) 21:45, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Perhaps consider using Image:Green Highlander salmon fly.jpg instead, as that has a more visible hook? --MichaelMaggs (talk) 21:54, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

What is a suicide hook?
I see the term 'suicide hook' in the stores, and have not been able to find out what this means. Does anyone know? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.111.47.29 (talk) 07:58, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Point--not! Point--not! Watch the beat!
The last bit on points sure seems like marketing but it's been in the article forever so I want to leave it to someone more knowledgeable to remove, if appropriate. Nklatt (talk) 03:15, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

"'SP stands for several words like Sport Point, Super Point or Special Point. We think these new SP point, especially SP-Barbless point are representing the sport aspect of fly fishing well.'"


 * The above is actually an artributed quote to make the Point about Points. I've changed to the Quotation template so that aspect is more obvious.--Mike Cline (talk) 21:30, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Fish hook vs. fishhook?
Which one or both? --Hartz (talk) 07:44, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Both. I've added it to the lead. Thanks. --Epipelagic (talk) 09:49, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

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Fish hook removal
The only statement in the article on injuries is currently this figure legend: A hook in a finger. Either surgery or pushing the hook through the finger are the least destructive methods to remove a barbed fishing hook. These two papers on removal of fishhooks suggests several methods are available of retrograde (reverse-path) removal rather than only the pushing through option. Does injuries and treatment warrant a separate section in the article? T.Shafee(Evo &#38; Evo)talk 06:20, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

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