Spike Style Impaling Spring Hook

Victorian Era Spring-Loaded Fish Hook

1867 Lenhart Improved Fish-Hook

1872 Pitcher Fish Trap

1888 Spear-Shooting Spring-Loaded Needle-Hook

1904 Crossbow for Fishing

The 6 metal, killer fish traps that are the subject of this article are some of the author’s favorites that he has collected over the previous 25 years. Three of these traps are patented, while the other 3 may have and could have been, because of their unique design, but if so, their letters of…

‘Big Emmitt’ Scott and his ‘Sure-Catch Device’ 32 S&W caliber. A new subject that deals with an historical aspect of fishing in the United States has just come to light. It is contained in a book entitled Spring-Loaded Fishhooks, Traps and Lures. The book deals with the evolution of mechanical fishhooks and metal traps meant to…