Patent ID: 7107719

Claim:
A fish lure having a connector for joining a hard head to a soft tail comprising: a rigid hard head component; a soft flexible tail component; a head plate secured to said hard head component of said lure; a tail plate secured to said soft flexible tail component of said lure; a pair of projections carried on said head plate arranged in fixed spaced-apart relationship and outwardly projecting therefrom to terminate with a flared distal portion; a pair of openings provided on said tail plate in fixed spaced-apart relationship and adapted to be registered with and to insertably receive said pair of projections; said projections in an insertable engagement with said openings providing a detachable engagement between said head plate and said tail plate; where each of said openings in said plate includes a notch; where each projection includes a shank carrying said flared distal portion whereby manipulation of said head plate respective to said tail plate urges said shanks into said notches for capturing said flared distal portions behind said tail plate; and where each of said flared distal portions includes an angular undercut slidably engageable with said tail plate, where the head plate and tail plate slide against and parallel to each other to engage the head plate to the tail plate.