Patent ID: 8484884

Claim:
A fishing lure, comprising: a head member, said head member having a quick-release mechanism and having means of engaging said head member to an attachment with a fishing line, said attachment with a fishing line forming a fixed engagement of said fishing line to a first end of said head member; said head member having an axial chamber at a second end of said head member; a tail member, said tail member removably attachable to said second end of said head member through an operative employment of said quick release mechanism wherein said tail member is removable from the head member while said head member is in said fixed engagement to said fishing line; said tail member including a shaft, said shaft of said tail member attachable to the head member by an insertion of the shaft into the axial chamber; a shaft portion at said second end of said head member, said shaft portion including the axial chamber into which the tail shaft is secured by the quick release mechanism; said quick release mechanism comprises a slide; and a spring, positioned so as to be compressed by a sliding of the slide, wherein the slide and spring are disposed substantially around the shaft portion of the head member, wherein longitudinal motion of the slide secures or releases the tail member shaft from the axial chamber in the head member.