Fishing device

A fish device intended to be suspended from the end of a fishing line for retaining a fish on the fishing line once the fish nibbles at a baited hook, the device comprising, in combination:

• an inverted U-shaped spring member having legs thereof extending downwardly from an apex portion suspended from the fishing line, a pair of arm members, each affixed at its top end to one of the leg members and extending downwardly and outwardly therefrom, a pair of double barbed hook members each affixed to the terminal free end of each arm member projecting inwardly toward each other in a confronting manner, means suspending the arm members, and means for triggering the arm members to effect the spring member to drive the arm members in a direction inwardly of each other;
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• a hook suspended from said arm members by means of a pair of vertically spaced apart eyes affixed to one arm member, a second pair of vertically spaced apart eyes affixed to the other arm member, a flexible cord having one end tied to one eye of one arm from whence it is trained through an eye of the other arm from whence it is trained back to the remaining eye of the first arm from whence it is trained back to the remaining eye of the second arm to which it is permanently tied thereto, the fishing hook being suspended intermediate the arm members on the run of the cord which is nearest the double barbed hook members, with the means for triggering the spring member comprising the cord which pulls the arms slightly together upon a fish nibbling on the hook, this effecting closing of the legs of the spring member to drive the double barbed hooks in a direction inwardly toward each other.