Weedless fishing lure
AssigneeHenry C. Kovar
InventorEdward M. Anderson
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Abstract
A weedless fishing lure has a body with a concavity aft of a leading end, means for mounting a hook rotatably to the body, a fish hook rotatably secured to said means and having an elongate shank and a curl skewed from the shank and an apex where the curl adjoins the shank, and a resilient spring mounted between the body and the hook which rotatably positions the hook with respect to the body in a normally weedless position in which a hook point is in the concavity and the hook apex is outward of the body, the hook is rotatable when the apex is depressed toward the body and the hook point rotates out of the concavity to become exposed, the spring resiliently returns the hook to the normal weedless position, a preferred spring is an elongate helical torsion spring having one end mounted in the body and a second end fastened to the hook.
Claims23
A weedless fishing lure comprising:
- (a) a body having a leading end, means for connecting the leading end to a fishing line, and a concavity in one side of the body and aft of the leading end;
- (b) hook securing means mounted to the body for rotatably securing a fish hook to the body;
- (c) a fish hook rotatably secured to the securing means and having
- (1) an elongate shank,
- (2) a curl of approximately 180 degrees in between the shank and a hook point, said curl being skewed from the shank, and
- (3) an apex where the curl adjoins the shank;
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- (d) a resilient spring reactively mounted in between the body and the rotatable hook, said spring rotatably positioning the hook with respect to the body in a normally weedless position in which the hook point is within the concavity and in which the hook apex projects outwardly of the body, said spring being operable for resiliently returning the hook to the normal weedless position from an alternate fish catching position in which the hook is rotated with respect to the body with the apex having been depressed toward the body and the hook point being exposed outside of the concavity and the body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.