Types of Fish Hook

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:21:24 +0000

Fish hook is the equipment used to catch a fish. A fact that you must know about this little piece of equipment is that it has been enlisted by Forbes in 2005 as one of the most used tool by man. There are different kinds, shapes, sizes and materials that are used to create fish hooks and this depends on what kind of fish a man wants to catch.

Each fish hook is intended for a specific purpose and manufacturers just give each hook a name and model. The shape of the hook ranges from straight to different kinds of curves, offset, bends and kinks. The shape of the hook will help greatly in snagging a fish. Fish hooks are also designed either as single, double and treble hooks.

A single hook is composed of a single-eye, point and shank. A double hook is created from a single piece of wire and may have shanks that are brazed together for more durability. On the other hand, treble hands are created by adding single eyeless hook to double hook and brazed the three shanks together.

There are also different bait hook shapes and names such as:

Salmon Egg
Beak
O'Shaughnessy
baitholder
shark
Aberdeen
Carlisle
Carp
Circle
Tuna Circle
Offset Worm
circle hook which is also referred to as lonk shank, suicide hook, j hook, short shank, big game jobu hooks and octopus hooks.

On the other hand, fly hook shapes and names include the following:

Sproat
Sneck
Limerick
Kendal
Viking
Captain Hamilton
Barleet
Swimming Nymph
Bend Back
Model Perfect
Keel
Kink-shank

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Types of Fish Hook