Patent ID: 7891667

Claim:
A fishing game apparatus, comprising: (a) a horizontally extending fish support; (b) one or more fish shaped members, each having the general outline of a fish and a lower end resembling a tail of a fish, each of said fish shaped members having a representation of a fish thereon, each of said representation of a fish having a representation of fish tail proximate said lower end of said fish shaped member and a representation of a fish mouth proximate an upper end of said fish shaped member, (b1) said upper end of said fish shaped member having an outwardly flaring upper terminus extending beyond said representation of said fish mouth, said upper terminus having an angled mouth, a guide slot and a circular snare opening there, said guide slot leading from said angled mouth to said circular snare opening, (b2) each fish shaped member being connectable to the fish support by a releasable holding means, (c) a plug adapted to be connected to the end of a casting line so that the plug and line can be cast over the angled mouths of the fish shaped members, each plug being made of resilient material and being provided with a nose piece adjacent to the connection of the line to the plug, the nose piece tapering outwardly from a diameter of smaller size than the circular snare opening in the fish shaped member where the plug connects to the line to a diameter slightly larger than the diameter of the snare opening in the fish-shaped member, the plug being provided with a recess beyond the larger diameter of the nose piece so that, when the plug is pulled into the circular snare opening in the fish-shaped member, the nose piece will squeeze through the opening until the sides of the opening are received in the recess of the plug, so that pulling on the line after the plug has been received in the circular snare opening will cause the fish shaped member to pull against the releasable holding means to release the fish-shaped member from the fish support.