Weedless- multi-barb fishhook

A weedless multi-barb fishhook including a head structure, defining a hollow cavity including an open side opening outwardly of one side of the head structure, said head structure including line anchor means thereon for attaching one end of a fishing line to said head structure, a pair of oppositely facing fishhooks including a pair of shanks yieldingly supported at one pair of corresponding base end portions thereof within said cavity in laterally spaced apart relation and for swinging movement of the other pair of corresponding end portions thereof toward and away from each other, said other pair of corresponding end portions including oppositely curved hook portions opening toward said one pair of one end portions, said one pair of end portions being telescoped within said cavity in position closely opposing opposite sides of said cavity, and a resilient body disposed within said cavity between said one pair of base end portions of said shanks and yieldingly resisting movement of said base end portions toward each other, said base end portions including angulated terminal ends anchored in said cavity and projecting toward each other, said cavity defining narrow portions thereof in which said base end portions and said terminal ends are received with said base end portions swingable through said narrow portions toward and away from each other, said cavity including inwardly projecting portions spaced toward said open side of said cavity from said terminal ends preventing withdrawal of the latter and thus said fishhooks from said cavity.