Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing – Artificial bait
Reexamination Certificate
1999-06-30
2001-05-22
Ark, Darren W. (Department: 3643)
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
Artificial bait
C043S042280, C043S042380, C043S042390
Reexamination Certificate
active
06233863
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to fishing lures and more particularly to fishing lures which can be quickly assembled and disassembled and to kits therefor to enable the fisherman to create a lure having a desired characteristic.
BACKGROUND
Fishing lures and kits therefor have been known as described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,630,289 issued May 20, 1997, to the application herein. Lures according to this patent include a head having an eye adapted for connection to a fishing line. The head includes a fish hook. A flexible, plastic body is secured over the hook to nest at the head such that the hook emerges from the side of the body. A barbed shaft, connected to a hackle or other component attractive to fish is inserted into the body to secure the hackle to the head-body construction to define the lure.
Repeated removal of the barbed shaft from the body to change the hackle can damage the body requiring replacement thereof. Further, the barbed shaft may be forcibly torn from the body on a snag or by a forceful strike by a fish resulting in loss of the hackle.
There is a need to provide an assembleable lure to more positively secure the hackle or other member to a head member to resist loss of the hackle. There is also a need to provide a kit of components which can be selected to assemble a lure having a desired characteristic be it color, shape or hydrodynamic performance.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
There is, therefore, provided according to the present invention a fishing lure having a removable trailing member. A first member includes a forward end, means for connecting the first member to a fishing line, a hook and a forward opening notch. The trailing member for the lure has a loop adapted to be received in the notch to couple the trailing member to the first member. An elastic sleeve is adapted to be removably received over the first member to constrict at said notch to secure the selected trailing member to the first member and define the lure.
Also provided is a kit for fashioning a lure which has one or more first members each including a forward end and means for connecting the first member to a fishing line, a hook and a forward opening notch. One or more trailing members are provided each including a loop to be received in the notch to couple the trailing member to the first member. One or more elastic sleeves are provided, each adapted to be removably disposed to constrict at the notch to secure the trailing member to the first member and define the lure.
The trailing members for the kit may include hackles, worm-form members, minnow-form members or any other desired shape or configuration thought to be attractive to fish. Furthermore, the first members and/or trailing members may be of a variety of shapes and colors as well as providing different hydrodynamic performance in the water. Still further a plurality of elastic sleeves may be provided of different colors and shapes whereby the fisherman can assemble a lure of desired characteristics. As can be appreciated, by providing the loop-notch connection as well as the elastic sleeve, the connection between the hackle or other trailing component is positive in nature resisting loss of the trailing member or hackle on a snag, through repetitive use or upon a forceful strike by a fish.
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Anderson Philip J.
Anderson & Morishita
Ark Darren W.
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