Patent ID: 8869445

Claim:
A fishing lure imitating a bird comprising: a substantially cylindrical, flexible hollow body having a central long axis, the body shape tapering from a common larger diameter to a substantially smaller diameter at a front end and having a rounded rear end, the cylindrical body implemented to exhibit substantially equal longitudinal buoyancy, causing the body when floating on a water surface to float with the long axis substantially parallel with the surface in an orientation defining a body top, a body bottom, a height from top to bottom, a length, a left side facing front, and a right side facing front, the buoyancy providing a water line; a set of two simulated eyes, one eye positioned on the left side of the body toward the front end, another eye positioned on the right side of the body directly opposite the one eye; two first groupings of buoyant flexible strands joined at one end each to the body at a common height below the water line on directly opposite sides of the body at a point along the length rearward of the set of simulated eyes, the flexible strands of the two first groupings having a first average length; two second groupings of buoyant flexible strands joined at one end each to the body at a common height below the water line on directly opposite sides of the body at a point along the length rearward of the position of the two first groupings of flexible strands, the flexible strands of the two second groupings having a second average length less than the first average length; a third grouping of buoyant flexible strands joined to the body at a central point of the rounded rear end below the water line, extending generally rearward in the direction of the long axis; and a hook element disposed longitudinally through the cylindrical body, the hook having an eyelet extending outward through an opening from the front end of the body below the water line, a shank extending rearward in the body along the long axis to about the position of the simulated eyes, then bending downward, then rearward again to lie along the bottom of the body within the body to near the rear end, then curving upward in the shape of the rounded rear end, exiting the body through an opening below the waterline in an upward facing lengthwise recess, then bending forward to present a hook point facing in a forward direction, the point concealed in the recess and positioned at a point along the length rearward of the second groupings of buoyant flexible strands.