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US 6,658,785 B1Granted
Live bait fish lure
OwnerFulton L. Faulkner, Kirk E. Faulknerinventors
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Abstract
A lure for mounting bait fish includes a unitary weighted body having a socket for receiving the nose of the bait fish and a lower tail section having inwardly projecting hooks for penetrating the sides of the bait fish to effect a secure, properly oriented mounting.
Claims15
A bait fish lure comprising:
- a unitary body including a lower medial rib having a forward end and a rearward end, said rib having an apertured nose section at a forward end and a pair of laterally spaced, vertically extending wing sections attached to said nose section and the rearward end of said rib, said medial rib having an upper surface substantially planar between said forward end and said rearward end, said nose section with said wing sections defining a trough for receiving the head of a bait fish with the eyes thereof rearwardly of the nose section and above the wing sections, symmetrically disposed downwardly and outwardly flared upper surfaces on said wing sections for balancing said body during forward movement and imparting turbulence along the-body of the bait fish for imparting simulated natural movement to the tail thereof, symmetrically disposed upwardly and outwardly lower surfaces flaring from said medial rib to said upper surfaces for promoting hydrodynamically stable forward movement to said lure, a plurality of inwardly projecting hooks on said inner surface of said wing sections for penetrating the side of the bait fish;
- said wing sections extending beyond said rearward end of said medial rib forming a rearwardly opening groove;
- and means for connecting a leader at a said nose section and a barbed hook at the rearward end of said medial rib.
A bait fish lure comprising:
- a unitary body including a frustoconical nose section having an opening therein, said nose section having a recessed rear surface configured for receiving the head of a ballyhoo with the bill thereof projecting forwardly through said opening and the eyes thereof located rearwardly of said nose section, a rib section extending rearwardly from said nose section below said opening and having a rearward end terminating beyond the gills of a ballyhoo positioned at the nose section, wing sections extending upwardly from the sides of said rib section and rearward of said nose section forming a trough to receive the head of the ballyhoo;
- a passage for slidably receiving a leader line therethrough, said passage formed in said nose section and said rib section and having an entry at said opening and an exit at said rearward end of said rib section, a plurality of forwardly and inwardly projecting hooks on said inner surfaces of said wing sections for penetrating the sides of the ballyhoo behind the gills whereby the ballyhoo may be secured on said body by inserting the bill through said opening and said head into said recess followed by rearward movement of the ballyhoo to engage the hooks with the body thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.