Patent ID: 7059080

Claim:
A fishing lure system comprising: a hard-body lure that exhibits lateral motion when pulled through water, the hard-body lure having a nose end and a tail end along a longitudinal axis, wherein the tail end comprises: a channel extending within the hard-body lure; a cross-channel extending through the hard-body lure in a direction substantially perpendicular to the channel, wherein the channel intersects the cross-channel; and a pin disposed within the cross-channel; and wherein the nose end comprises: a leader line connection for connecting to a leader line, the leader line connection comprising: a first eyelet connected to the hard-body lure and a second eyelet connected to the hard-body lure; a first ring looped through the first eyelet and a second ring looped through the second eyelet; and a third ring looped through the first ring and the second ring, wherein the leader line connects to the third ring; a trailing lure; and a flexible linkage for translating the lateral motion of the hard-body lure to lateral motion of the trailing lure, the flexible linkage having a first end connected to the pin, and second end connected to the trailing lure.