Sentence:  Hooks of willow wood or bone (often from wishbone) and copper <WSD>gorges</WSD> (thin bipointed rods with a fishline attachment in the middle) could be baited with fish scrap or meat. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A primitive device used instead of a hook to catch fish, consisting of an object that is easy to swallow but difficult to eject or loosen, such as a piece of bone or stone pointed at each end and attached in the middle to a line.