Daiwa Seiko, Inc.

Globeride, Inc.

Hideyuki Furuya

Shigeru Yamamoto

Mitsuyoshi Oyama

Kunio Masuyama

Shin-ya Takizawa

Provided is a soft lure in which interference in movements between adjacent wobbling portions in a front-rear direction is reduced. A soft lure according to one embodiment has a body and a plurality of legs each projecting out from a side of the body and arranged along a moving direction of the soft lure. The legs wobble in accordance with water flow when the soft lure moves. At least one leg among the plurality of legs has a connected portion connected with the body (trunk) where a thickness in an upper-lower direction is smaller than a thickness in the moving direction, and has a substantially middle portion situated outer from the connected portion. In the middle portion of the leg, a thickness in the upper-lower direction is larger than a thickness in the moving direction.

Fishing soft lure

One object is to provide a fish collecting device having a simple structure whereby free rotation of a propeller is prevented in casting, and the propeller can rotate freely under water. The propeller body is formed of one metal plate or an integral resin mold; a front end stopper and a rear end stopper are formed of bent or projected parts of the propeller body at the front end and rear end of the propeller body, and a rotary shaft, inserted through holes formed in the front end stopper and the rear end stopper, has a rotation restricting portion for contacting the propeller body. Free rotation of the propeller body in casting can be restricted by a simple structure wherein the rotation restricting portion contacts the propeller body and the rotary shaft engages with the propeller body such that the propeller body is unrotatable with respect to the rotary shaft.

Fish collecting device

One object is to provide a jig head including a sinker head and a hook readily replaceable with new one. A jig head includes: a sinker head including an eye to which a fishing line is to be attached; and a hook portion including a shank fixed on the sinker head at one end thereof, and a bend continuous to the other end of the shank and bent in a predetermined direction. The hook portion includes a wide portion widened to form a plane at the one end of the shank. The sinker head includes: an intermediate member having a hook engagement portion configured to be removably engaged with the wide portion; an intermediate member-receiving hole portion configured to receive therein the intermediate member; and an intermediate member-fixing means configured to removably fix the intermediate member in the intermediate member-receiving hole portion.

Jig head

A casting handle with a trigger includes a grip area section disposed behind the trigger, a rear section disposed in the rear of the grip area section, and a small-diameter intermediate section interposed between the grip area section and the rear section. The grip area section is expanded both vertically and laterally. The rear section has a vertical height less than the corresponding height of the grip area section. This forms a flat upper surface positioned sufficiently rearward with respect to the grip area section that the wrist of an angler's hand holding the casting handle does not interfere with the casting motion. The constricted cross-section, intermediate section has a lateral width and a vertical height respectively less than the corresponding width and height of the rear section. Consequently, the casting handle allows smooth casting, thumbing and pumping operations as well as improving the angler's ability to operate the fishing rod.

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Tokyo, Japan

Hideyuki Furuya