baitless

From bait + -less.

baitless (not comparable)

1. Without bait.
   • 1964, Georg Borgström, Japan's world success in fishing:

     With baitless hooks, the catchers rely upon their speed and agility to flick the skipjack aboard as they snap at the glittering hooks.

• Stabiles, ableists, astilbes, bastiles, stabiles