A metal weight fitted with a hook, used as a lure for sea fishing.
（海上捕鱼用的）鱼饵坠，鱼饵垂
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Today much is made in the way of lures to attract fish and these include pirks for deep-sea fishing, flies for trout, salmon and grayling, plugs and spinners for pike, salmon, bass, cod and flounders.
A pirk and a couple of muppets worked through a shoal of cod will usually produce the goods.
Expensive chromed plated pirks such as the ‘Norwegian banana ‘through to simple pirks made from lead filled pipe have all caught huge amounts of fish over a lot of years.’
Even when baiting a treble or single hook on a pirk, it's worth adding a luminous muppet to add further movement at hook level.
If you tip the pirk with a side of mackerel or a strip of squid think about removing the treble hook and fitting a large single hook.