Rubber
fishing lures (delayed sinking) characterized by The addition of a
tail plate creates a wobbling action, slowing the lure's descent. The
tail plate of a soft plastic lure typically serves to attract the attention of a predatory fish through its back-and-forth movement. For manufacturing reasons, the plate's surface is flat. The innovation is that the
tail plate is concave on the inside, like a parachute (1). This slows down the fall of the soft plastic lure with jig head rig, leading to an increased number of bites, since approximately 99% of bites occur during the lure's fall. The curved tail plate (1) contains a volume of water that dampens the back-and-forth wobble of the plate because the enclosed
water mass must also move. The innovation lies in the fact that on both sides of the tail plate, which is connected to the body of the soft plastic lure at the upper end of the caudal peduncle, there is a rearward-facing, curved outlet channel (1a) through which the water collected in the cavity of the concave tail plate can escape. These two outlet channels result in a significantly higher frequency wobble of the tail plate. The tail plate is connected to the soft plastic lure at its upper end by a short, flat, vertical caudal peduncle. This short caudal peduncle transfers the
vibrational energy of the tail plate to the soft plastic lure, causing it to also wobble back and forth.Long, thin tail stalks may make the plate wobble more, but almost no
kinetic energy is transferred to the fish's body. The
kinetic energy remains in the tail plate. The protection applies to lure lengths between 30mm and 300mm. The length of the tail section, excluding the tail plate, can be between 5% and 25% of the lure's total length. The
diameter of the tail plate can be between 5% and 20% of the lure's total length. The tail plate can be round, oval, elliptical, heart-shaped, teardrop-shaped, square, or rectangular. The angle of the tail plate to the soft plastic lure is between 70 and 120 degrees (1c).