Patent ID: 7117629
Filing Date: 2006-10-10
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. A bottom fish rig comprising: an elongated leader having two opposite ends, a leader book end and a leader line end, said hook end having a leader hook loop secured by a leader hook loop lug therein, said line end having a leader line loop leader secured by a leader line loop lug therein, a first movement stop frictionally connected to said leader adjacent said line end, said first movement stop abuts the leader line loop lug, a second movement stop frictionally connected to said leader, said second movement stop located between said first movement stop and said leader hook end, said second movement stop is located approximately one-third of the way from said leader hook end, and approximately two-thirds of the distance from the line leader loop; a c-weight that could be removed and reinserted without cutting said leader, said c-weight having a substantially c-shape that could slide along the leader for two-thirds of said leader, said c-weight having a first end, said first end having a first bore therethrough, said c-weight having a second end, said second end having a second bore therethrough, said c-weight having a first slot to said first bore on one side, on the other side said c-weight having a second slot to said second bore, allowing the c-weight to be fixedly connected to said leader; a swivel connected to said leader hook eye loop; a snap connected to said swivel; and a horizontal unilateral three-prong hook connected to said snap, swivel, and leader, said horizontal unilateral three-prong hook has a bent eye and shank in the same plane as a vertical center hook barb and a symmetrical pair of outer hook barbs which are disposed within a 180-degree section, this placement of the barbs causes the hook to lay horizontally and allows said hook to slide upon a lake bottom without being caught on debris and to flip upright when the leader is being reeled.