Fishing lure

In early time, angling used predominantly edible baits impaled on hooks made from animal bones or bronze.

The ancient Chinese and Egyptians practiced angling with fishing rods, hooks and lines as early as 2,000 B.C., though most of the first fishermen used handlines.

The Roman scholar Claudius Aelianus first described the practice of "fasten red wool... round a hook, and fit on to the wool two feathers which grow under a cock's wattles" by Macedonian anglers on the Astraeus River,[1] an early form of fly fishing, near the end of the 2nd century.

English tackle shops are recorded as selling tin minnows in the middle of the 18th century, and realistic imitations of bugs and grubs made from painted rubber appeared as early as 1800.

Early English minnow baits were largely designed to spin as their attracting action, as exemplified by the “Devon”-style lure first produced in quantity by F. Angel of Exeter.

The first production lures made in the United States, mostly metal spoons and spinnerbaits, came on the market in the last half of the 19th century.

The makers included Julio T. Buel, Riley Haskell, W. D. Chapman and Enterprise Manufacturing Company.

[4] Modern fishing plugs were first made commercially in the United States in the early 1900s by firms including Heddon in Michigan and Enterprise Mfg.

These movements mimic the behaviors of small preys, which draw the attention of larger aquatic predators and fool them into identifying the lure as an easy meal.

Today's modern definition for lures are that they be made of wood, plastic, rubber, metal, cork, and materials like feathers, animal hair, string, tinsel and others.