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
Fly-killing device using a spring-compressed air blast similar to a BB rifle. It has an accurate range of , and the killed bugs remain whole for easy clean up. The pneumatic salt-shot approach is claimed to be effective because the high speed, small-sized salt grains are apparently undetected by the targeted fly until it is too late to dodge them. A fly bottle or glass flytrap is a passive trap for flying insects. In the Far East, it is a large bottle of clear glass with a black metal top in which there is a hole. An odorous bait is placed in