Year: 1886

page_text: We, ROBERT MUNRO CAMPBELL, of Rose Cottage, Fort Augustus, in the County
of Inverness, North Britain, Insurance Agent, and THOMAS GELLION HENDERSON,
of Highland Club Buildings, Inverness, in the same County, Agent, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object to improve and render more efficacious fishing
tackle of the kind used in trolling, or which has hitherto been provided with a
single artificial minnow as a bait such minnow being armed with hooks and fitted
with screw or twisted fins or blades to make it spin when drawn through the water.
The Invention consists in providing another minnow on the same line at a little
distance from the end minnow, the added minnow being made capable of spinning
independently of the end one.
The improved fishing tackle which may be designated as the "duplex spinning
tackle" is shown on the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings. The end
minnow, A, as ordinarily used is shown in side view, the line, B, to which it is
attached being provided with the usual swivel connections, C, to allow of the
minnow spinning freely by the action of its grew fins, D.
The added minnow, E, is shown in section. It is made with a tube, G, of thin
brass or other suitable material extending through it lengthways; and the tail end
of this tube is made with a flange or bead, H, to bear on a metal ring, J, which is
attached to a bead, K, of rubber. This rubber bead, K, is made with the hole through
it so small that the bead grips the line, B, which passes through it and through the
tube, G, of the minnow, E. The minnow, E, is quite free to spin by the action of
the screw fins, L, at its head, the tail end of the tube, G, bearing and turning on the
metal ring, J. The minnow, E, is by preference colored differently from the end
minnow, A. The tube, G, and metal ring, J, are made large enough to pass over
the swivels, C; but the rubber bead, K, by gripping the line, B, keeps the
minnow, E, in position until a fish has been hooked by it. When a fish has been
hooked by the minnow, E, the dragging strain causes the minnow to push the
rubber bead, K, along the line, and the rubber bead gets over the swivels, C, by
stretching. The minnow, E, being thus dragged by a fish ultimately reaches the

page_text: end minnow, A, and the fish will very properly become additionally hooked by the
end minnow and its capture be thereby rendered more certain.
Instead of providing for the spinning of the added minnow by making it with a
tube as described an ordinary minnow may be used, such minnow having fixed
to it short lengths of line which are connected by swivels to the other parts of
the line.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
In fishing tackle, the combination of two independently spinning minnows or
baits one being at the end of the line and the other at some distance from the end
substantially as herein before described.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.