Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A variety of fish hooks. 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 ...
Meaning. The fish-hook shape of the hei matau means to know, which holds that the North Island of New Zealand was once a huge fish that was caught by the great mariner Māui using only a woven line and a hook made from the jawbone of his grandmother. [2] Legend holds that the shape of Hawkes Bay is that of the hei matau, which caught in the ...
Fish Hooks is an American animated television series created by Noah Z. Jones and developed by Alex Hirsch and William Reiss for Disney Channel. The show ran for three seasons from September 3, 2010 to April 4, 2014, airing a total of 59 episodes.
Māui (Hawaiian mythology) Sculpture of Maui capturing the sun. Māui Snaring the Sun, pen and ink drawing by Arman Manookian, circa 1927, Honolulu Academy of Arts. In Hawaiian religion, Māui is a culture hero and ancient chief who appears in several different genealogies. In the Kumulipo, he is the son of ʻAkalana and his wife Hina-a-ke-ahi ...
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 ...
Angling with a rod. A young angler who has successfully hooked a black crappie in the mouth. Angling (from Old English angol, meaning " hook ") is a fishing technique that uses a fish hook attached to a fishing line to tether individual fish in the mouth. The fishing line is usually manipulated via a fishing rod, although rodless techniques ...
Oscar and Milo believe that their teacher Mr. Baldwin lives a double life as a comic book superhero named Captain Aquarium. Meanwhile, Bea has to do a news report for Dr. Frog and believes that the realization of Mr. Baldwin being Captain Aquarium will make a good story. 13. 13. "Dances with Wolf Fish".
A fish hook is a device for catching fish either by impaling them in the mouth or, more rarely, by snagging the body of the fish. Fish hooks have been employed for millennia by anglers to catch fresh and saltwater fish. Early hooks were made from the upper bills of eagles and from bones, shells, horns and thorns of plants (Parker 2002).