Patent ID: 8826586

Claim:
A method for affixing a pinless fishing apparatus to a bait, the method comprising: providing a fishing apparatus including: a line; a bait attachment device being defined by the line and having one of a box-shaped aperture and a diamond-shaped aperture and being substantially collinear with the fishing apparatus; a length of malleable wire having a first end and second end and sized to be passed through the bait attachment device and circumscribe the bait at least once; and providing the bait, the bait having a first end, a second end, a dorsal portion, a ventral portion, a first side, and a second side; positioning the fishing apparatus on the dorsal portion of the bait, the bait attachment device being proximal to the first end of the bait and in contact with the dorsal portion of the bait; passing the length of malleable wire through the ventral portion of the first end of the bait, out the dorsal portion of the first end of the bait, and through the aperture of the bait attachment device; circumscribing at least once with the malleable wire the first end of the bait and at least a portion of a line of the fishing apparatus; positioning the first end and second end of the length of malleable wire such that the ends do not protrude from the bait or fishing apparatus; and passing the at least one hook through the bait such that: the hook passes through the bait from the first side to the second side, the hook being positioned such that the at least one barb of the at least one hook is in contact with the second side of the bait; or the hook passes through the bait from the second side to the first side, the hook being positioned such that the at least one barb of the at least one hook is in contact with the first side of the bait.