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  2. Fish hook - Wikipedia

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    Fish hook. A fish hook or fishhook, formerly also called an angle (from Old English angol and Proto-Germanic *angulaz), is a hook used to catch fish either by piercing and embedding onto the inside of the fish mouth (angling) or, more rarely, by impaling and snagging the external fish body. Fish hooks are normally attached to a line, which ...

  3. Circle hook - Wikipedia

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    A circle hook is a type of fish hook which is sharply curved back in a circular shape. It has become widely used among anglers in recent years because the hook generally catches more fish and is rarely swallowed. [3] Since the circle hook catches the fish on the lips at the corner of its mouth, it usually decreases the mortality rates of ...

  4. Wooden halibut hook - Wikipedia

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    A wooden halibut hook is a type of fish hook, historically used by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast to catch Pacific halibut. In addition to their utilitarian function, wooden halibut hooks have artistic value, and spiritual significance to the cultures that traditionally used them. Rarely used for fishing in the late 20th ...

  5. Fishing tackle - Wikipedia

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    Fishing with a hook and line is called angling. In addition to the use of the hook and line used to catch a fish, a heavy fish may be landed by using a landing net or a hooked pole called a gaff. Trolling is a technique in which a fishing lure on a line is drawn through the water. Snagging is a technique where the object is to hook the fish in ...

  6. Fishing line - Wikipedia

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    Fishing with a hook-and-line setup is called angling.Fish are caught when one are drawn by the bait/lure dressed on the hook into swallowing it in whole, causing in the hook (usually barbed) piercing the soft tissues and anchoring into the mouthparts, gullet or gill, resulting in the fish becoming firmly tethered to the line.

  7. Fishing techniques - Wikipedia

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    Drone fishing - Rod fishing assisted by a drone, the drone can be a flying type or underwater type, it can be remote controlled by a human, computer, AI or a combination of the three simultaneously. The drone is used to scout for fish via camera, carry the hook to a far off location, cast the hook, reel in the fish and return.

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