sproat Angling.
(sprəʊt)
[f. the name of the inventor, W. H. Sproat of Ambleside.]
sproatbend (hook), sproat hook, a light fish-hook with a wide and slightly flattened bend, short front, and point set well inwards.
| [1866 W. H. Sproat in Field 1 Dec., I send..salmon hooks made by Messrs. Hutchinson and Son, of Kendal. They have affixed my name to them.] 1871 ‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Rur. Sports (ed. 9) i. v. 276 The sproat-bend, which is intermediate between the round-bend and the Limerick, has also come a good deal into use of late for trout. 1883 Cent. Mag. July 378/1 He attached a sproat hook, No. 1½, with a gut snell eight inches long. 1888 Goode Amer. Fishes 20 Thirty or forty yards of braided silk or linen line, and a Sproat-bend hook. |