Patent ID: 8656633

Claim:
A fishing lure includes a body, a skirt, a blade and a hook, the body includes a pivotable loop that attaches the blade to the body, the loop is pinned to the body but pivots about the pin in a slot disposed in a non-planar head section of the body, and wherein said slot has a length that is generally parallel to a length of the body, a line is attached to the blade at a point spaced from said loop, the skirt includes flexible filaments and is attached to the body, wherein a first eye on said loop is spaced from said pin and wherein the slot has a front end and back end and the loop moves from the front to the back of the slot as it pivots about said pin, and wherein the loop is wire and has an ‘S’ shape wherein the blade is attached to the first eye of the loop and the pin passes through a second eye of the loop such that as said loop pivots about said pin said first eye travels along the length of said slot such that said blade can strike said body along the length of said slot.