Decoy or fishing lure exhibiting realistic spectral reflectance

• US 20090000177A1
• Filed: 08/29/2008
• Published: 01/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aaron Henry Johnson, Brian Myron Tande, Todd Andrew Pringle
• Original Assignee: Aaron Henry Johnson, Brian Myron Tande, Todd Andrew Pringle
• Inventors: Johnson, Aaron Henry, Tande, Brian Myron, Pringle, Todd Andrew
• Granted Patent: US 7,966,764 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 43/17.600
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 85/01 with light emission, sound emission, scent dispersal or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A01M 31/06 Decoys

Abstract

An animal decoy or fishing lure with a surface reflection which closely matches the spectral reflectance pattern of the animal that it is designed to mimic, including both human-visible and ultraviolet wavelengths, with the intent of making the decoy or fishing lure appear more realistic to animals that can see in both the human-visible and ultraviolet spectrums.

Claims

1. A fishing lure with a surface reflection which substantially matches the spectral reflectance pattern of the animal that it is designed to mimic in the ultraviolet wavelengths.

2. The fishing lure of claim 1, wherein only certain areas of the lure have a surface reflection which substantially matches the spectral reflectance pattern of the animal that it is designed to mimic.

3. The fishing lure of claim 1 wherein said surface reflectance pattern is achieved with a diffuse ultraviolet-reflecting surface which reflects at least 15% of ultraviolet light.

4. A fishing lure resembling an animal where one or more portions of the surface of the lure are diffuse ultraviolet-reflecting areas which correspond in location to the natural ultraviolet-reflecting areas of the animal to be mimicked by the lure.

5. The fishing lure of claim 4 where the animal is a fish and the one or more portions of the surface of the lure are the underside of the lure, corresponding to the belly area of a fish.

6. The fishing lure of claim 4 wherein said diffuse ultraviolet-reflecting surface areas of the lure reflect at least 15% of ultraviolet light.

7. The fishing lure of claim 4 wherein said ultraviolet-reflecting areas of the lure have a surface reflection which substantially matches the spectral reflectance pattern of the areas of the animal they are designed to mimic.

8. A fishing lure coating which reflects at least 15% of ultraviolet light and which matches the ultraviolet reflection of a surface of the animal to be mimicked by the lure coating.