Editing Fish hook (section)

{{Short description|Device for catching fish}}
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[[Image:Fish hooks.jpg|thumb|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 [[fishing|catch]] [[fish]] either by piercing and embedding onto the inside of the [[fish jaw|fish mouth]] ([[angling]]) or, more rarely, by impaling and [[snagging]] the external fish body. Fish hooks are normally attached to a [[fishing line|line]], which tethers the target fish to the angler for retrieval, and are typically dressed with some form of [[fishing bait|bait]] or [[fishing lure|lure]] that entices the fish to swallow the hook out of its own natural [[instinct]] to [[foraging|forage]] or [[predation|hunt]].

Fish hooks have been employed for millennia by [[fishermen]] to catch [[freshwater fish|freshwater]] and [[saltwater fish]]. There is an enormous variety of fish hooks in the world of [[fishing]]. Sizes, designs, shapes, and materials are all variable depending on the intended purpose of the hook. Fish hooks are manufactured for a range of purposes from general fishing to extremely limited and specialized applications. Fish hooks are designed to hold various types of artificial, processed, dead or [[live food|live bait]]s ([[bait (luring substance)|bait fishing]]); to act as the foundation for artificial representations of [[invertebrate]] prey (e.g. [[fly fishing]]); or to be attached to or integrated into other devices that mimic prey ([[fishing lure|lure fishing]]). In 2005, the fish hook was chosen by ''[[Forbes]]'' as one of the Top 20 tools in [[human history]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/personaltech/2005/08/05/technology-food-fishhook_cx_de_0805fishhook.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120630063117/http://www.forbes.com/personaltech/2005/08/05/technology-food-fishhook_cx_de_0805fishhook.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 30, 2012|title=No. 19: The Fish Hook|first=David M.|last=Ewalt|website=[[Forbes]]|date=5 August 2005|access-date=23 April 2017}}</ref>
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