Fishing lure with angled end faces and rotatable on the line

A fishing lure has an elongated body which is reversely curved to dispose inclined end faces of the body on opposite sides of and directed away from a middle portion of the body. The curvature near one end face is greater than the curvature near the other end face. A longitudinally extending passageway in the body threadedly receives a leader used to attach a hook as well as the lure to a fishing line. The arrangement allows the lure to be moved through water in one direction to impart a selected rotative movement to the body and to be moved in the opposite direction to impart a slightly different rotative movement.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION 
This invention relates to an artificial fishing lure or bait. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART 
There are many types of lures available to fisherman but most are designed 
to perform best when used for a particular method of fishing. For example, 
a lure intended to be used primarily for trolling may be shaped and 
coloured to simulate a small fish such as a herring and very often the 
shaping is such as to impart a swimming action to the lure as it is drawn 
through the water behind the boat. A trolling lure will not perform 
satisfactorily if not used as intended and the same thing may be said of 
other specialized lures some of which are relatively complex and 
expensive. 
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
The present lure on the other hand is a simply constructed and inexpensive 
device which occupies a minimum amount of space in a fishermans tackle 
box. The shape given to the present lure makes it reversible, that is, it 
can be moved through the water in either direction to provide a different 
action according to the direction of travel and this makes the lure 
suitable for trolling as well as drift fishing with one lure of an 
appropriately small size being suitable for spin casting as well. 
More specifically, a device according to the present invention may be 
defined as a fishing lure which comprises an elongated body which is 
reversily curved in a horizontal plane extending through the longitudinal 
axis of said body said elongated body having opposite end faces inclined 
in opposite directions with respect to the longitudinal axis of the 
elongated body, and rigging means for attaching the elongated body to a 
fishing line whereby longitudinal movement of the body in either direction 
through water exerts a force on the leading opposite end face tending to 
rotate the body generally about the longitudinal axis.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 
Referring to the drawings, the present fishing lure is indicated generally 
by the numeral 10. The lure 10 has an elongated body 12 which may be 
formed of partly coloured or suitably painted plastic. The body has a top 
ridge 14 and a transversely rounded bottom surface 15 which ridge and 
surface preferably are parallel to one another as shown best in FIG. 3. 
Between the ridge 14 and surface 15, the body curves outwardly so as to 
appear substantially pear shaped in cross section. This cross sectional 
shaping is exaggerated at opposite end faces 16 and 17 of the body since 
those faces are inclined in opposite directions with respect to the 
longitudinal axis of the body. In other words, end faces 16 and 17 
converge inwardly from the top ridge 14 to the bottom surface 15 as will 
be appreciated best from viewing FIG. 3. 
The elongated body 12 is reversely curved between the end faces 16 and 17, 
see particularly FIG. 2, the curvature being in a horizontal plane 
extending through the longitudinal axis of the body. Starting at a 
straight portion 20 located at about the middle of the body, the lure will 
be seen to have another portion 21 which curves outwardly away from the 
middle portion in one direction and which terminates at the end face 16. 
The degree of curvature is relatively greater in a third portion 22 of the 
body which extends from the middle portion to the end face 17. Thus, the 
reverse curving is in a horizontal plane which is assumed to extend 
through the longitudinal axis of the body but the curvature is greater in 
the portion 22 than in the portion 21. 
FIG. 1 shows the lure rigged to move through the water from left to right 
so that the end face 16 is the leading end of the lure. End face 17 then 
becomes the trailing end of the lure and it will be noticed the unequal 
reverse curving disposes the inclined end faces in opposite directions 
relative to the middle portion 20 of the body. There is a dot indicated by 
the numeral 25 on the trailing end face 17 of the lure to distinguish that 
face from the leading end face 16. 
The body 12 is provided with a longitudinally leading end face 16. 
extending passageway 30 which is located closer to the top ridge 14 than 
to the bottom surface 15. A leader 31 is threaded through the passageway 
30, see FIG. 1 only. One end of this leader is adapted to be secured to an 
end of a fishing line 32 by means of a swivel 33. The other end of the 
leader is attached to a hook 35 which may be the triple barbed type shown 
in FIG. 1. Preferably, the leader 31 is fitted with a bumper 36 located 
between the hook 35 and the end face 17. 
The fishing lure 10 is rigged as shown in FIG. 1 for fishing in various 
ways one of which is commonly referred to as drift fishing. That is to 
say, the fishing is usually done from a boat in deep water. A rod carries 
the fishing line 32 and the lure 10 is lowered to the required depth 
whereupon the fisherman periodically lifts the end of the rod to raise and 
lower the lure. The end face 17 bearing the dot 25 is at the lowermost end 
of the lure at this time. As the lure is raised in the water, the end face 
16 acts as a planing surface in the water and a force is imposed on the 
body 12 which causes it to rotate slightly about its own longitudinal 
axis. The rotation is not too rapid and may not be over a full 360.degree. 
due to the position of the inclined end face 16 and the relatively slight 
curvature of the portion 21 but the overall movement is somewhat similar 
to that which might be made by a small bait fish. The lowering motion of 
the lure is made quite slowly to avoid too much slack in the fishing line 
and it is the end face 17 which then tends to twist or rotate the lure. 
The portion 22 has the greatest amount of curvature and the end face 17 is 
offset from the middle portion 20 to a greater extent than the end face 
16. As a result, the rotative movement of the body is proportionately 
greater in relation to its speed of movement through the water and the 
resulting movement of the lure as it is allowed to sink in the water has 
been likened to that of a wounded herring. Movement of this kind is known 
to attract game fish which are encouraged to strike at the lowering lure 
so as to be caught by the hook. 
The lure 10 may be rigged in the above-described manner when it is to be 
trolled behind a boat during salmon fishing. However, if the fisherman 
decides that a faster or more pronounced rolling action would be best, he 
places the hook 35 near the end face 17 to achieve that result. Factors 
such as the speed and depth at which the trolling is to be done, the 
condition of the water and so on may persuade the fishermen that rotation 
of the lure should be speeded up and this is done by reversing the body 12 
on the leader. The leader 31 is threaded through the passageway 30 so that 
the end face 17 will be the leading end of the lure as indicated by the 
dot 25. Again the face 17 and portion 22 combine to give a faster speed of 
rotation which, under certain circumstances, would be more likely to 
attract salmon than would be the case if the body was mounted on the 
leader in reverse. 
From the foregoing, it will be apparent there is provided a versatile lure 
which offers two distinct fishing actions for both drift fishing and 
trolling. A slightly smaller version of the lure has been found 
advantageous to use when spin casting as well.