Tackle is everything you tie directly to your fishing line, put on a snap swivel or a leader. Commonly called hooks and lures and are mostly used in recreational fishing. Hooks are the objects hung at the end of the line and they are designed to look like the prey of the fish that you want to catch. 

What is the difference between lures and hooks?  Lure is defined as an action to attract attention to tempt or bring something closer to you from where it was. Hooks are defined as an object used to catch, place or hold something on.

So if we apply these definition to fishing then, the lure is the method and consists of using color, flash, shape, movement, noise and vibration to entice the fish to bite or come after your bait.  Hooks then would be the physical body, metal, wood,  plastic or combination of and the sharp pointed needle like hook ends used to capture and hold the fish.  The physical sharp hooks can be found at the front, the back end or under the body.

 

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Fishing lures are not an invention of our times, early caveman may have used sharpened sticks or rocks, but after getting soaked and skunked most of the time, somewhere in this period the first BONE hooks were crafted. A fish hook will pierce the mouthparts of a fish and may be barbed to make escape less likely. Another method is to use a gorge, which is buried in the bait such that it would be swallowed end first. The tightening of the line would fix it cross-wise in the quarry’s stomach or gullet and so the capture would be assured.

The Chinese and Egyptians used fishing rods, hooks, and lines as early as 2,000 B.C. though most of the first fishermen used handlines. The first metal hooks were made out of bronze which was strong but still very thin and less visible to the fish. Like everything else as technology changes, fisherman demands, new ideas and plans so do lures and hooks. Today most are artificial they are made of plastic, wood, metal, rubber, cork. or manufactured materials in some way.

Lures 100% of the time catch the fisherman before they catch a single fish.  You have to select, purchase or be given it from somewhere.  There are thousands of lures manufactured every year, The Latest and Greatest, but they are purchased by…..Yep the first (fish..erman). The fishing lure is either tied with a knot, such as the improved polomar or clinch knot or connected with a tiny safety pin-like device called a "snap" onto the fishing line which is in turn connected to the reel. The reel is attached to a rod.

Lures still cannot catch fish until the fisherman finds a way to get the offer to the fish.  Fish live in water, they can breath in water, fisherman cannot. Enter the rod, reel and line. However, anglers still have to move the fishing lures,with motions that make the plastic or fiber material look like swimming fish food. The movement of the lure will also make light reflect and cause sound or vibrationsand attract the attention of the fish. The fisherman casts the line and the motion is created by winding the line back onto the reel. As well motion is made by sweeping the fishing rod, jigging movements with the fishing rod, stop winding and let sink or float, or by being pulled behind a moving boat (trolling). 

Types Of Lures:

Top Water: floaters they float on water looking very much like surface prey. Flies, basa wood plugs, hollow plastic baits, floater jigs

 

Spoons: Usually a metal and have treble hooks on bottom end, for under water surface but not on bottom, high flash.

 

Plugs or crank-baits: between surface and bottom, mostly trolling but retrieved faster to get swimming action, resemble bait fish

 

Jigs: a weight headed hook, designed to bounce off or near the bottom or in water area, usually baited with minnows or live bait.

 

Spinner baits: wire bent at about a 60 degree angle with a hook on the lower end and a spinner blade on the upper end

 

Swim baits:  minnow- like soft plastic bait that is reeled like a plug. Some of these have a swimming tail

 

Crawlers: and Harness: rigs with one or two hooks, beads, and blades, used to hold worms, minnows, leeches etc

 

J  Straight hooks: fish on the bottom using bait balls or in water using live or artificial bait.  

 

Advantages Of Todays Lures:

Manufactured in great quantities making them cheaper to purchase

Better materials and paint for closer to life imitations

New hook styles allow for better releases and less fish death

Fish faster and cover more water

Change color, shape, and size of the lure at a moment’s notice

 

More Information On:

Top Water Lures

Spoon Type Lures

Plug and Crank Bait Lures

Jigging Type Lures

Spinner Bait Lures

Swim Bait Lures

Crawler Type Lures

Bottom Use Lures

 

 

 

 

 

 

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