Snag-free hydrodynamic fishing sinker container
AssigneeThe Raymond Lee Organization, Inc.
InventorsVirginia L. Hershey, George P. Hershey
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Abstract
A shaped container has a fishing weight or sinker installed and a flat plate extends radially about a compartment in which the sinker is mounted. Holes in the plate provide optional mounting means for a fishing line passing through one of said holes and joined to the sinker in the container and to a fishhook leader extending externally away from the compartment. A fish hooked to the leader, in attempting to drag the sinker through weeds or rocks lying on the bottom of the water is drawn upwards by the reaction of the water against the flat plate, and away from the bottom.
Claims1
A sinker for fishing purposes comprising
- a flat shaped plate,
- a conical unit fastened to the plate and projecting from a surface of the flat plate,
- a weight located in the conical unit, and
- fastening means to join the weight to the fishing line that extends through a hole in the plate,
- said conical unit fastened to the plate at a distance from the mid-line of the plate with a shorter section of the plate extending in one direction from the conical unit and a longer section of the plate extending in the opposed direction from the conical unit with the said hole in the plate located in the said shorter section of the plate, so that the longer section of the plate serves as a tail surface that orients in water along an upward plane when the plate is pulled by a fishing line extending through the hole in the shorter section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.