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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 1988
Filed:
Apr. 08, 1988
Dennis K Cooper, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Other;
Abstract
A weedless hook attachment includes a central hub with a plurality of legs emanating radially therefrom, formed of a flexible, resilient and compressible plastic. The plurality of legs have approximately the same diameter, the diameter being approximately equal to or greater than the diameter of the eye on the fishing hook onto which the weedless hook attachment is to be engaged. In the preferred embodiment of the invention for use with a treble hook, the hook attachment includes a pair of legs having a necked-down portion between the leg and the central hub. A third starter leg includes a starter nub projecting from the free end of the starter leg that has a diameter smaller than the diameter of the eye of the fish hook. In use, the starter nub is threaded through the eye of the treble hook and is used to pull the starter leg through the eye. The starter leg is threaded through the eye until the necked-down portions of the remaining legs are situated in the eye. The starter nub is severed from the end of the starter leg, and the starter leg and the remaining legs are impaled on the barbs of the treble hook. The weedless hook attachment conceals barbs and prevents the treble hook from becoming snagged on underwater weeds and brush, without significantly affecting the action of the lure to which the treble hook is attached.