Matching the hatch consisted of tying on an Iliamna Pinky - nothing more than a ball of pink chenille wrapped around a weighted, short-shank hook.

The original, and still most commonly seen use of soft plastics is as a simple lure, using a weighted hook known as a jighead.

In its four-fingered left hand was a bamboo spear with a point of delicately flaked stone; in its right was a coil with weighted hooks on the end.

By casting a weighted treble hook across them and jerking it back, individuals can be plucked from the schools.

Then, with a deft cast for a boy his age, he sent the weighted hook, bait still attached, out across the starboard wake of the skiff.

Then he goes to the beach, where a boat is riding at anchor, rows out to sea, casts a weighted hook to the bottom, and catches a flounder.

They may be captured by the "suspension method" used to catch silver carp, or, where legal, by snagging them by jerking a weighted treble hook through the water.

They'll be holding on to two ropes connected to a weighted hook.

A jig is a weighted hook with a lead head opposite the sharp tip.

The weighted hooks shot straight up into the air and crashed down at my feet.