Robert R Rowe

US Patent:

47947217, Jan 3, 1989

Filed:

Aug 21, 1987

Appl. No.:

7/088399

Inventors:

Robert R. Rowe - Santa Rosa CA
Sherry Rowe - Santa Rosa CA

International Classification:

A01K 8500

US Classification:

43 4214

Abstract:

A fishing lure attachment provides a fish-attracting device that mimics the look of a school of minnows or other bait fish to a predator fish, and is releasably securable to a standard fishing line above a common hook, live bait, or artificial lure. The attachment comprises a semi-rigid central segment portion of steel leader or similar material attachable at its upper end to the terminus of the fishing line to be used, and at its lower end to the hook, baited hook, or artificial lure. This central segment portion includes a plurality of spaced, independent spinner members along its length, so that when it is pulled straight, the spinner members define a generally colinear series of light-reflecting surfaces. At least one pair of co-planar, opposed arm portions, composed of wire or similarly rigid yet flexible material, project from this central segment portion at or near it s upper end, and each of these opposed arm portions carries an independent spinner member at its respective end remote from the central segment portion, and thereby offset from the colinear series of spinners. Thus, these spinner members collectively define a planar body of spaced, light-reflecting surfaces, generally wider at the upper (leading) end than the lower (trailing) end, ahead of a trailing hook or lure.