Assassination Trivia

[Eva Elisabeth]

(08-10-2013 09:06 AM)LincolnMan Wrote:  It must not have worked to well- as I don't think they are in use today.

Today I was at a flea market and there was a man who sold lots of fish hooks. I asked him about the Yankee Doodle.
These hooks are still traditionally used in Scandinavia, Poland and Russia to catch pike and other carnivore fish, here they are called "pike trap".
Bill, they do work well, but they are prohibited by law in Germany and many other countries because the caught fish often die cruelly from severe injuries and bait fish have to be spiked in a very bloody manner. Some people here collect such historic fish hooks.