Sikuti (Sikuti)

Traditionally, the combined short rod (very short for trolling through ice holes in winter), line and trolling spoon (i.e. hook(s) with fish- or spoon-shaped lure), sometimes translated word-for-word from mänguõng as playing-hook, but nowadays more commonly just the business end. In southern Estonian dialects, notably around (or on...) Lake Peipsi, they tend to say sikuska (and sometimes tirk, see Tirgu) due to Russian influence with communities dating back to the 17th C when Old Believers migrated there following the religious schism, раскол (raskol, hence Dostoyevsky’s Raskolnikov) of 1666. Part of a fishing-tackle group, see also Sumba.