Patent ID: 6892489

Claim:
An artificial lure comprising: (a) an integral body and tail portion; (b) said body configuration selected from the group consisting of fish, worms, crayfish, shrimp, frogs or other creatures of prey, said body portion of sufficient dimensions to provide means for hooking a fish; (c) said tail portion comprising an upper or lower or a right and left sickle shaped appendage, said sickle shaped appendages molded in separate parallel planes with a parallel space therebetween, said sickle shaped appendages arranged substantially opposite one another when molded, the full width of each said sickle shaped appendage when molded extends in a general rearward direction with the arc of each said sickle shaped appendage for part of its length directed in an inward direction, the said full width of each said sickle shaped appendage somewhere along its said length crosses the other said sickle shaped appendage in an opposite manner in the mold, after said sickle shaped appendages cross one another in said mold, said arc of each said sickle shaped appendage continues to its distal end; said sickle shaped appendages precisely aligned in said mold, whereby producing a predetermined gap between the inside edges of said sickle shaped appendages when the lure is pulled through the water on a fishing line; (d) said upper or right sickle shaped appendage integrally attached to an upper or right surface respectively of said body portion; (e) said lower or left sickle shaped appendage integrally attached to a lower or left surface respectively of said body portion.