Patent ID: 6185858
Filing Date: 2001-02-13
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
A leader attachment method for attaching a wire leader having a free end and a connected end to a fishing item having an eye, said method comprising the steps of:a) providing a leader attachment tool including a bent wire member including a handle portion, a right angle offset portion, an axis portion having a front end and a rear end, a connecting hook with a tapered insertion end, an attachment eyelet, and a plastic tubular sleeve handle;said handle portion terminating at a far end in said attachment eyelet and at a near end in a right angled integral connection with one end of said right angle offset portion;said right angled offset portion terminating at another end in a right angled integral connection with said rear end of said axis portion;said front end of said axis portion terminating in an integral connection with said connecting hook;said plastic sleeve handle being configured to slide or twist over and become rotatably positioned over said handle portion of said bent wire member;said handle portion and said axis portion being oriented in parallel with each other;b) inserting a free end of a length of wire leader through an eye of a fishing item to be secured in a fishing rig;c) tying the free end and the connected end of the wire leader into an overhand knot about the eye of the fishing item;d) pinching the free end of the wire leader against the connected end of the wire leader between a user's thumb and forefinger;e) inserting said tapered insertion end of said connecting hook of said leader attachment tool through the eye of the fishing item; andf) rotating said handle portion to spin the eye of the fishing item while continuing to pinch the free end of the leader material against the connected end of the wire leader between the user's thumb and forefinger to tightly wind the free end of the wire leader helically about the connected end of the wire leader.