Slip-on fishing swivel

Abstract

A fishing swivel, such as a barrel, includes a slip-on connector, i.e., an attachment element, formed from bent wire. The attachment element has a neck and, adjacent the neck, an opening for slidingly inserting and removing fishing line, lure or hook. An embodiment of the attachment element further includes a blunt acute leading edge and an S-shaped trailing edge. A terminal end is removably hooked around the neck, separably abutting the neck, or adjacent to and apart from the neck. A swaged end is attached to the neck for rotational engagement within a cavity of a body. An embodiment features a first lateral bight that leads to a second bight, leading to a first side, leading to a tip bight defining an acute blunt leading edge, leading to a second side, leading to a fourth bight defining a capture recess, leading to a return bight, leading to a terminal end proximate the neck. In one embodiment, the first lateral bight is a 90 to 180 degree bend, and the second bight is a 45 to 270 degree bend and the third bight is a 90 to 270 and the return bight is a 90 to 180 degree bend, leading to a terminal end proximate the neck.

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