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US 5,398,440 AGranted
Fishing bobber with drag scoop for bait jigging
OwnerWalter M. Amundseninventor
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Abstract
An improved fishing bobber has an upward facing concave hydrodynamic drag scoop underneath a buoyant body, and structure to slip-fit a fishing line through the bobber to a non-buoyant lure. The lure may be raised and lowered while the bobber is positionally restrained by the drag scoop. A method of fishing with the bobber and scoop, and a method of making the improved bobber are provided.
Claims1
A fishing bobber comprising
- a) a tubular central shaft for receiving a fishing line and having a line inlet;
- b) a buoyant float body secured to said shaft, said body having an upper end and a lower end;
- c) a line guidestop secured to said shaft above said body upper end;
- d) a non-buoyant thermally molded water drag scoop structurally fastened to the bottom end of said tubular central shaft, said scoop having a relatively large diameter top end, a relatively small diameter bottom end, and a concave side between said top end and said bottom end, said concave side facing upward, toward said buoyant float body and forming an annular water inlet about said body;
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- e) means in said shaft and below said scoop bottom end defining a downward facing line outlet from the bobber, wherein said shaft, said line guidestop, and said line outlet permit said line to pass therethrough in a slip fit to permit a lure attached to said fishing line to be elevated substantially with respect to said body and scoop by pulling on said fishing line.
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