Patent ID: 8844190
Filing Date: 2014-09-30
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. A fishing lure comprising: a hook including an eye at a front end of said hook, a shank, a bend at a rear end of said hook, a first barb and a point; a body being fixed at a front end of said shank and surrounding a front half of a length of said shank, said eye extending just forward of said body, said body including a head portion, a chin portion and a cylindrical neck, said neck surrounding a portion of said shank and including a rim, said rim being located at least one eighth inch rearward of said head portion and extending radially outward from said neck, said neck also including a second barb at a rear end thereof, said second barb being located at least one eighth inch rearward of said rim, said barb extending outward from said heck portion and being configured to fixedly hold an elastomeric neck portion of an artificial elastomeric night crawler which has been impaled on said second barb, said chin portion extending downward from said head portion and away from said shank, said chin portion then flaring out in a rearward direction to form a horizontal spoon-holding fan portion; and a spoon portion being held by and extending rearward from said spoon-holding fan portion, said spoon having a bottom surface, a top surface, a teardrop shaped peripheral edge and a bowl, said spoon having a thickness of about one sixty-fourth inch and a width of about one third of a length of said spoon, said spoon being slightly cupped upward near the marginal edges thereof, said top surface of said spoon facing and being approximately parallel to said shank, said top surface of said spoon being spaced apart from said shank, and a free end of said spoon extending rearward beyond said bend of said hook.