Patent ID: 7340858

Claim:
A fishing sinker, comprising a polyhedron body having a rectangular base and triangular sides with a common blunt vertex, said polyhedron body including a bulbous leading edge; a central channel in said body; an eyelet pin with a swaged end, a straight section extending through said central channel and an integrally formed eyelet portion protruding from the blunt vertex, wherein the eyelet portion is a resilient eyelet with a slip-on opening biased into a closed position, the slip-on opening is defined between a vertical neck portion of the straight section of the eyelet pin and a free end portion of the eyelet portion, and the free end portion of the eyelet portion includes an integrally formed straight arm section and an integrally formed angled arm section, said angled arm section defining a free end of the free end portion of the eyelet portion and said straight arm section being attached to said angled arm section; and a plurality of symmetrically arranged stabilizer fins extending along angles of intersection of each adjacent triangular side, wherein said sinker has a length and the plurality of symmetrically arranged stabilizer fins extend the length of the sinker.