Abstract: The invention comprises a hook provided with a shank carrying an eye for attaching a line thereto and further carrying a bend, with a pointed end for hooking a fish with the fish hook having substantially a constant diameter and an outer surface for reflective light of a first wavelength with the improvement including a first layer of decorative material having a first pigment located on a first region of the fish hook, with the first layer of decorative material conforming to the outer surface of the fish hook without adding bulk to the hook, the first layer of decorative material reflects light of a wavelength different from the reflected fight of the outer surface of the point of the hook to provide the hook with greater visual attractiveness than the point of the hook and a method of making a fish-hook lure from a fish hook having an outer surface of substantially uniform dimension including the steps of spraying a layer of a first decorative material having a first pigment along a first portion of the fi