Game imitating the catching of fish by plug casting

A fishing apparatus comprising

• a horizontally extending fish support;
• a horizontally extending cast-over back bar connected to the fish support and extending in spaced parallel relation thereto;
• the fish support and back bar being made floatatable so that the fish support and back bar can float on the surface of water;
• one or more flat, relatively thin fish shaped members, each having the outline of a fish and each having an upper end forming an angled mouth and a lower end resembling the tail of a fish, each fish shaped member having a circular snare opening therein mounted directly below the mouth of the fish shaped member and a guide slot leading from the mouth of the fish-shaped member to the circular snare opening, each fish shaped member being connected to the fish support by a releaseable holding means,
• a casting line,
• a plug adapted to be connected to the end of the casting line so that the plug and line can be cast over the back bar and the angled mouths of the fish shaped members, each plug being made of resilient material and being provided with a nose piece adjacent to the connection of the line to the plug, the nose piece tapering outwardly from a diameter of smaller size than the circular snare opening in the fish shaped member where the plug connects to the line to a diameter slightly larger than the diameter of the snare opening in the fish-shaped member, the plug being provided with a recess beyond the larger diameter of the nose piece so that, when the plug is pulled into the circular snare opening in the fish-shaped member, the nose piece will squeeze through the opening until the sides of the opening are received in the recess of the plug, so that pulling on the line after the plug has been received in the circular snare opening will cause the fish shaped member to pull against the releaseable holding means to release the fish-shaped member from the fish support.