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US 5,634,290 AGranted
Device and method for making a fishing lure
OwnerFloyd H. Johnsoninventor
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Abstract
A harness lure tying device comprises a plurality of beads and a spinner disposed on a shaft having an axial bore therethrough and removable retainers at opposite ends of the shaft. The removal of one or the other retainers permits the beads and spinner to be slid onto and off the shaft into and out of engagement with a leader line during the tying of a harness lure or the replacement of the beads and blade of a harness for those of another.
Claims21
A fishing lure harness tying device, comprising:
- a shaft having opposite ends and an axial bore of a diameter enabling said shaft to be slid onto and off of a leader line;
- an artificial bait having a circumferentially continuous inner wall defining an axial passageway through said bait of a diameter enabling said bait to be slid onto and off of said shaft;
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- a pair of retainers mounted on said ends of said shaft to retain said bait releasably on said shaft, said retainers being removable individually from said shaft to enable said bait to be slid onto and off of said shaft from either of said ends thereof, whereby said bait is attachable to the leader by removing a selected one of said retainers from an end of said shaft to unblock said end, sliding said unblocked end of said shaft onto the leader, sliding said bait off of the unblocked end of said shaft directly onto the leader, and thereafter sliding said shaft off of the leader.
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A method of tying a harness lure for fishing, comprising:
- obtaining a length of flexible leader line having leading and trailing ends thereof;
- obtaining a harness tying device comprising a first elongate tubular shaft having opposite leading and trailing ends and an axial bore between said ends of a diameter enabling the shaft to be slid onto and off of the leader line, a first selected artificial bait supported on said shaft having a circumferentially continuous inner wall defining an axial passageway along the length of the bait, and a pair of removable retainers supported on the ends of the shaft;
- in a selected order, attaching a connector to the leading end of the leader and a fish hook to the trailing end of the leader;
- prior to the attachment of the latter of said connector and said hook to said leader, removing a selected one of the retainers from a first end of the shaft, sliding the first end of the shaft onto the leader, sliding the bait off the first end of the shaft and directly onto the leader, and thereafter sliding the shaft off of the leader thereby to dispose the bait on the leader.
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A harness lure tying kit, comprising:
- artificial bait including an assortment of plastic beads and spinner devices that can be arranged in any of a number ways to provide a variety of bait combinations, said beads having central axial passageways of predetermined diameter therethrough that open at their opposite ends and are substantially closed between said ends enabling said beads to be self-supporting on a leader line;
- at least a first elongate tubular shaft having opposite ends and an outer surface of a diameter no larger than the diameter of said passageways of said beads enabling a selected one of said variety of bait combinations to be slid onto and off of said ends of said shaft, said shaft further having an axial bore extending between said ends of a diameter enabling said shaft to slide onto and off of a leader line;
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- at least a pair of retainers removably disposable on said opposite ends of said first shaft securing said selected bait combination on said shaft when said retainers are disposed on said ends of said shaft while enabling said selected bait combination to be slid off of and onto said shaft from a selected one of said ends of said shaft upon the removal of the associated said retainer from said selected end of said shaft.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.