"To bait the hook" means to attract or entice someone by offering them something they are interested in or desire, usually as a way to get them to do something or make a certain decision.
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On the other hand, dropping the same
baited hook into a freshwater lake that has not been stocked with fish makes it much less likely that any given tug on the line represents a fish, as opposed to, say, a tree snag.
Longlines use thousands
of baited hooks on a single line to try and catch a particular species of fish such as tuna.
However, it is known to be caught
on baited hooks of the local sport fishery, indicating potential vulnerability to bycatch mortality (Ratcliffe et al. 2008).
Kayak through cool, fragrant mangrove tunnels, take turns
baiting the hooks while you fish for tonight's golden grilled snapper, or stroll along the fluffy sand and laugh at the seagulls pirating snacks from unwary tourists.
However, David Little's company is one of the few harvesters
utilizing baited hooks and longliners, a low - impact, environmentally sensitive fishing style that keeps species flourishing for the long term while ensuring the freshest fish possible for clients.
Alongside some of the area's best shark fishermen, Chapple trolled up and down the coast,
baiting the hooks night and day, sometimes for days on end.
Among the sources Dalhousie biologists Ransom Myers and Boris Worm looked at were the records of Japanese boats that use fishing lines up to 60 miles long, with 2,000 or
more baited hooks, to catch anything that will bite.
I love to camp, fish, travel, read and spend time with family and friends (but I'm not going to lie... I
hate baiting the hook), I enjoy trying new things but I do have my limits.
Such mispricing creates an opportunity for investors to capture excess returns, much as the fisherman's
baited hook entices the next bream that skims by.
Max sadly, being the kitten that he was, became enamored with a
large bait hook used for open ocean fishing.
We do angle for invites like fisherman with
cheese baiting our hook... new services and products, or new iterations of the same products.
They had been catfishing and
baiting their hooks with chicken livers, which Elvis apparently found too tempting to ignore.
In my mention of a plan to protect spawning bluefin tuna with a voluntary buyout allowing vessels in the Gulf to switch from using longlines bearing hundreds
of baited hooks to more selective gear that would not catch bluefin tuna, I said the money would come from the Pew Charitable Trusts.
However, David Little's company is one of the few harvesters
utilizing baited hooks and longliners, a low - impact, environmentally sensitive fishing style that keeps species flourishing for the long term while ensuring the freshest fish possible for clients.
If they can do it, anyone can
bait the hook.
«But as one of the great fisherman of the past said, «One
baits the hook, another casts the line, and a third reels in the fish.»
A third person has to be trained the cast
the baited hooks into the water, and a fourth person is specially trained to reel in any fish that are caught.
He is teaching them how to
bait the hook.
I had always fished for grouper by anchoring near a reef and sending down
a baited hook, but when they're hungry enough, they will leave the rocks swim upward, and take a lure.
Teach your child how to
bait a hook, build a campfire or paddle a canoe.
In other words, it's
a baited hook, and there is no need to continue putting worms on a hook for a fish that's already in the boat.
If you drop
a baited hook into a barrel full of fish, the chances that a tug on the line means that you have caught a fish are pretty high.
But those effects are largely imperceptible to humans — as invisible to a landlubber as an albatross chomping on
a baited hook at the end of a long line.
If he could
bait a hook that would be great.
I enjoy fishing as long as
you bait the hook, reading, sporting events, theater, concerts.
I work hard but play hard too as life is too short.I love the outdoors enjoying the Sun, surf and looking for someone to
bait my hook on my fishing line:).
I'm a country girl, I love to be outside and yes I like to hunt and fish... and I can
bait a hook!
Whisked away to Never Land, Jane is just
the bait Hook needs to prompt another showdown with the one and only Peter Pan.
In short, I found my best teachers to be misfits; somewhat ill - equipped for life on the outside, but wonderful guides to the art of cutting a hole in the ice,
baiting a hook, and lowering it into the dark unknown.
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in the process of offering schools complete packages of loans, Sallie Mae introduced subprime loans as the «
baited hook» to gain access to its more profitable federal loan and primae loan volume.
I can
bait a hook, but I can not allow myself to have a visual of my animals with little worms in them.
We suspect that he must have started playing with
the bait hook overnight and gotten stuck on one of the hooks through his mouth, and then through his palate.
It consists of tying a hook to a line with a weight on the end,
baiting the hook with sprat, shrimp, or small fish, and throwing the line in the water.
Watch the Barramundi lurking among the pylons and drop
your baited hook or lure right in front of their noses!
Fishing with miles - long lines of
baited hooks has spread around the world in the past few decades and has removed up to 90 percent of the large predatory species, including tunas, billfish and sharks, according to a variety of recent studies.
Sylvia Earle, the marine explorer and campaigner, was more blunt about the goal of saving bluefin by letting them work free from
a baited hook:
The most controversial part of the proposal is a large increase in the quota for the fishermen who use surface longlines, which can stretch 40 miles, carry more than 750
baited hooks, and float unattended for up to 18 hours.
This wasteful fishing gear stretches for 30 miles on average — a length equal to 528 football fields, dangling hundreds of
baited hooks.
These included using circle hooks on longlines which are less likely to snag a turtle that goes after
the baited hook, dehooking equipment that could save a turtle that was hooked rather than harm it even more, the use of «turtle excluder devices» on shrimp trawl nets that allow turtles to escape after being caught, and rules about keeping out of particular areas during times when turtles are most likely to be present.
Some of the strategies used to keep birds away from the lines include a «bird - scaring» line that keeps them away from
the baited hooks while they're set.
In order to catch a wider audience, developers need to
bait the hook with something interesting, like a fantastical setting from the world's most famous role - playing game series.