Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing
Patent
1994-08-15
1995-11-14
Rowan, Kurt
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
43 11, 43 55, A01K 9704
Patent
active
054655226
ABSTRACT:
This invention relates to fishing gear in the form of a minnow caddy. The minnow caddy has a main caddy body which is opaque (black) and forms a hiding place for a minnow or like bait fish into which the bait fish will swim when the minnow caddy is placed in a bait receptacle. The main caddy body having an entrance end and an exit end is carried by a control handle which permits the positioning of the main caddy body within the bait receptacle. At the exit end of the main caddy body there is an exit opening in which there is positioned a hooking aperture body having a monoleaf spring gate with opposed monoleaf springs. When the minnow caddy is lifted out of the bait receptacle, seeing the light at the exit opening provided by the transparent hooking aperture body window, the bait fish will be forced through the exit opening in a generally head first and right side up position by the water where it becomes trapped in a position wherein it is feasible to engage the bait fish with a fish hook in a normal, easy manner and thereafter draw the hooked bait fish out through the exit end of the hooking aperture body thereby separating the monoleaf springs of the monoleaf spring gate.
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