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US 3,942,282 AGranted
Minnow harness for fishing
OwnerClarence E. Flagelinventor
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Abstract
A fishing device for supporting a bait fish in a generally horizontal disposition includes a rigid wire shank connected to two bait spears, and a braided wire cable which is wrapped around and frictionally engaged with the shank portion and provided with a loop at one end of said shank portion for connection to a fishline and a hook at the other end which is embedded in the bait. When a fish is hooked, the cable is displaced from a first position parallel with the spears to a second position generally parallel with said shank portion to provide a taut line during fish retrieval.
Claims5
A fishing device comprising a rigid shank portion,
- an angularly related portion extending from said shank portion and adapted to support bait,
- a flexible strand wrapped around and in frictional engagement with said shank portion and including means at one end of said shank portion for connection to a fishline and hook means at the other end adapted for connection to bait at a point remote from said shank portion and said strand having a strand portion in a first position non-parallel relative to said shank portion when said hook is connected to bait and said strand portion being displaceable from said first position to a second position generally parallel with said shank portion after a fish is caught and during fish retrieval.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.