Fishing lure having an action halo
AssigneeWAR-TAC Outdoors, Inc.
InventorDanny R. Parks
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Abstract
The present invention provides for a variety of soft plastic fishing lures having an enlarged soft plastic attachment as part of the leading edge of the bait. The soft plastic attachment, preferably disk shaped and concave, provides for unique back and forth swimming motion in the leading edge of the bait and, when fished on the surface, creates a wake of water and produces vibration. The soft plastic attachment also adds additional weight to the front of the bait, causing it to fall in a natural lifelike position, and also allows the hook eye and line knot to be embedded into th
Claims20
A soft plastic fishing lure comprising:
- a. a soft plastic body having a front end and a back end, said body configured to receive a hook shank, and
- b. a soft plastic disk shaped attachment integrally formed and affixed to the front end of the body, wherein the disk-shaped attachment has a front face and a rear face, said front face being concave,
- wherein the soft plastic disk shaped attachment has a cross sectional area larger than the cross sectional area of the front end of said body and wherein the concave front face of the disk shaped attachment forms the leading edge of the soft plastic fishing lure as is it pulled through the water.
A soft plastic fishing lure comprising:
- a. a soft plastic action halo having a front face and a rear face;
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- b. a soft plastic body connected to the soft plastic action halo, said soft plastic body having a front end and a back end and at least one appendage,
- wherein the soft plastic action halo has a cross sectional area larger than the cross sectional area of the front end of said body and wherein the front face of the soft plastic action halo forms the leading edge of the soft plastic fishing lure as it is pulled through the water.
A soft plastic fishing lure comprising:
- a. at least one soft plastic action halo having a front face and a rear face having a thickness between said front face and said rear face around the perimeter of said soft plastic action halo of between approximately 0.1 and 0.4 inches;
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- b. a soft plastic body connected to the soft plastic action halo, said soft plastic body having a front end and a back end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.