Fish hook designs, shapes, and materials are all variable depending on the intended purpose of the fish hook. Fish hooks are manufactured for a range of purposes from general fishing to extremely limited and specialized applications. Fish hooks are designed to hold various types of artificial, processed, dead or live baits (bait fishing); to act as the foundation for artificial representations of fish prey (fly fishing); or to be attached to or integrated into other devices that represent fish prey (lure fishing). The fish hook or similar device has been made by man for many thousands of years. The world's oldest fish
Oscar bait went on to win the Best Picture Oscar. "Oscar bait" was used in a critical 1948 review of John Ford's "Fort Apache" in "The New Republic" that ends with the sentence "Postcards are supposed to be sent through the mail; flashed self-consciously on the screen, they look like Oscar bait." "The New York Times" used it in a 1955 article about the then-upcoming "The Harder They Fall", Humphrey Bogart's final film. A 1968 ad for "The Lion in Winter" quoted from a review in "Cosmopolitan" praising the performances of Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn as "Oscar bait outings." These all