I found these hooks(Mustad) in a hardware store up in ND while looking for some gloves in the outdoor section…Ive never seen these before and could not figure out who or what they would be used for. I figured somebody would know on here. 
kruger:
Those are called Swedish hooks… In WI I think they have been outlawed now. They generally are used in setting up dead baits for Northern pike, so that they sit level… Hook goes in to the mouth area and the through the body and the point of the hook sticks up behind the dorsal fin…
Mark
Wow By looking at the actual hook and barb its hard to see this working very well. Doesn’t look like it would stick home very well…but ive been wrong before. 
What was the reason for them being outlawed?
Mark, we actually rigged them the opposite way. Run them into a smelt from the dorsal and out to the head. Use finish nails in the smelts mouth to balance them.
A pike would hit the smelt (usually from the side) run and turn the bait in their mouth to swallow head first. A good hook set and the barb was embedded into the roof of their mouth. Worked great. Problem with small fish was if they swallowed the head of the smelt, they were gut hooked. Trying to get that hook out of a 22″ pike usually resulted in a bad situation.
Smelt hooks, Thread smelt on with hook point coming out behind smelts head. Pike bites set hook , point driven in usually into the roof of the mouth between the eyes. I have brained pike with these hooks instant death. Any slack line and they get off. But it was the hook back in the day for smelt fishing. I soon switched to quick strike. In the old days we were told to make bait perfectly level or no bites. Pike dont care I found out so quick strikes all the way.
Mwal
we used those for fishing northerns on the ice. String a dead sucker or something through it, you have to set the hook kind of forcefully and keep pressure on it the whole time while you’re pulling the line up.
Why were these outlawed in WI?
Ive never seen them in a gander or cabelas in MN. Are they outlawed here as well?
I think they were outlawed, if I am correct (I had ’em rigged backwards so they may not be outlawed), for the very reason that Randy talked about in his post, the gut hooking… I don’t know if they are outlawed in MN…
Mark
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Ive never seen them in a gander or cabelas in MN. Are they outlawed here as well?
I’ve seen them at 2 fleet farms in the metro. That doesn’t necessarily mean that there legal.
Tight lines!!!
Kevin
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