Method and apparatus for weedless fish lure

• US 8,689,479 B1
• Filed: 05/03/2011
• Issued: 04/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Troy C. Smith
• Original Assignee: Troy C. Smith
• Inventors: Smith, Troy C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ark, Darren W
• Assistant Examiner(s): SCHWARZ, TIMOTHY S
• Application Number:
  US13/068,092
• Time in Patent Office: 1,071 Days
• Field of Search: 43 34- 37, 43/420.8, 43/424.1, 43/424.4
• US Class Current: 43/37
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 85/02 with means for concealing or protecting hooks, e.g. to prevent entanglement with weeds
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 85/16 with other than flat, or substantially flat, undulating bodies, e.g. plugs

Abstract

Method and apparatus for a hard body fishing lure having a cavity disposed therein which conceals a fish hook held internal the body by a magnet. An axle is provided near the front of the lure about which the hook rotates from the internal position to an external position when the lure is struck by a fish and back pressure is placed on the fishing line so that the hook is deployed from internal the body to external the body so as to hook a fish in the mouth. A tube for receiving the line is placed between two halves of the lure wherein weights are placed near the bottom edges of the halves in order to properly weight the lure body. An additional embodiment is shown wherein a bill or lip is placed on the front of the halves of the lure body in order to make the lure dive deeper into the water column.

Claims

1. A weedless fishing lure, comprising:

a) a body having an upper portion, a lower portion and a cavity therein;

b) an axle being disposed in said body passing through said cavity;

c) a hook being disposed in said cavity;

said hook comprising an axle loop with an eye thereon at one end, a barbed portion at an opposite end of said hook, and a shank joining said axle loop and said barbed portion wherein said axle loop of said hook is rotable about said axle, wherein said hook is rotable from a first position internal said cavity to a second position external said body; and

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d) a wall within said lure extending from a front of said lure to a rear of said lure defining an outer boundary of said cavity, a magnet embedded in said wall of said cavity and extending into said cavity proximate said shank of said hook, the magnet extending along an axis that is transverse to an axis of said axle, wherein said magnet attracts said shank and secures said hook in said cavity;

e) a weight mounted in said lower portion of said body to keep said body at an effective depth in a water column; and

f) a fishing line extending into said cavity through an opening in said upper portion of said body and said wall adjacent said front of said lure, said fishing line being attached to said eye extending out from said axle loop whereby back pressure on the fishing line caused by a fish overcomes attraction of said magnet and rotates said hook from said first position to said second position external said body for hooking said fish.

2. The weedless fishing lure of claim 1, further comprising a tube extending from said cavity to said exterior of said body for receiving the fishing line therein.

3. The weedless fishing lure of claim 1, wherein said weight is mounted within and along a bottom edge of said cavity.

4. The weedless fishing lure of claim 1, said body having first and second halves.

5. The weedless fishing lure of claim 4, wherein said first and second halves are mirror images of each other when viewed along a vertical plane, said halves having cutouts which form said cavity when said halves are joined, said weight comprising weight portions along a bottom edge of each cutout in said first and second halves of said body.

6. The weedless fishing hire of claim 5, further comprising a fastener extending from a first side of said body through said cavity to a second side of said body, wherein said axle is a portion of said fastener.