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Encyclopedia > Fishing lures
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Spinner lure with ring, dish, body/weight and hook

In terms of sport fishing, a lure is an object, often designed to resemble fish prey, equipped with one or many hooks that is used to catch fish.


The lure is attached to the end of the fishing line and is then thrown out into the water and pulled back to attract fish. An exception is the fly lure, which either floats on water surface, slowly sinks or floats underwater, based on real behavior of insect being resembled.


There are several types of fishing lures:


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Fishing lure - Patent 5167089 (3491 words)
A fishing lure having a head, a body with skirts of contrasting colors attached to the body, a leader through an axial bore in the head of the body and the leader attached to the eye of a hook rearward of the body.
The fishing lure as in claim 3 in which the body is reversed with relation to the head, and the skirt is doubled out and back on itself such that the second layer is now shrouded within the streamers of the first layer.
When the fishing lure 10 is being drawn through the water, the leader 26, extending through the axial bore 46 of the head 12 and through the axial bore 48 of the body 14, is attached to the eye 50 of the hook 24.
Fishing lure - Patent 3958358 (2432 words)
A fish lure, for use in fishing with a rod, line and hook, and usually a reel, in the form of an elongated body member, and paired wings carried as bifurcated rearward projections, aerodynamically designed in arc shape.
Lures are often designed to spin, wobble or wiggle and even to gurgle, pop, and dip or dive through the water to better imitate life forms which, as suggested, will excite and arouse the curiosity and rapacity of the fish.
Most preferably, the lure is one resembling an insect having the usual body, head capsule with eyes and mouth parts, appendages which resemble legs, antennae or other specialized parts, and wings aerodynamically shaped to provide the essential rotation of the lure on movement of the member through the air.
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