Patent ID: 7356963

Claim:
A fish lure, comprising: a fish shaped body, the body further comprising: a forward body segment and an aft body segment connected by an integrally-formed vertical hinge, the vertical hinge further including a pair of vertical grooves extending from a dorsal surface to a ventral surface of the body, the grooves defining a hinge web that attaches the forward body segment to the aft body segment, and the forward body segment and the aft body segment each having a pair of sides which extend between the dorsal and ventral surfaces; a pair of front hinge surfaces, each of the front hinge surfaces extending between a respective side of the pair of sides of the forward body segment and the web so as to extend along one side of a respective groove of the pair of grooves; a pair of rear hinge surfaces, each of the rear hinge surfaces extending between a respective side of the pair of sides of the aft body segment and the web so as to extend along an opposing side of the respective groove of the pair of grooves, where the front hinge surface and the rear hinge surface on a same side of the body define a hinge angle between 5 degrees and 20 degrees when at rest, where each of the rear hinge surfaces and each of the front hinge surfaces is angled aft toward the aft body segment, where each of the rear hinge surfaces and each of the front hinge surfaces extends from the web at a first location and terminates at a second location at its respective side surface with the first location being forward of the second location, where each of the rear hinge surfaces extends laterally beyond its corresponding front hinge surface on the same side of the body; and a buoyancy-controlling insert inside the forward body segment.