Fishing Lure Exit Hook and Ballast Oscillator for Snag Resistance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing fishing lures face issues such as snagging on obstacles, difficulty in maintaining orientation, and inefficient hooking and releasing mechanisms, leading to frustration and inefficiency in fishing.
Innovation Solution
The introduction of a Hard Bodied Ballast Oscillator (HBBO) that oscillates around various axes and maintains an upright position, combined with an exit hook design that remains partially hidden within the lure body until a fish bites, ensuring reliable hooking and minimizing snagging.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the hook is exposed to ensure reliable hooking, then hooking reliability is improved, but snagging on obstacles increases
Solution Approach 1:
The hook is nested within the lure body, with the shaft positioned inside a cavity and the point extending through a controlled exit opening. This nesting allows the hook to remain protected during retrieval while still being accessible to fish mouths, resolving the contradiction between exposure for hooking and protection from snagging.
Solution Approach 2:
The hook is designed to dynamically change its position relative to the lure body. During retrieval, the hook remains nested and protected. When a fish bites, the hook exits through the opening to engage the fish. This dynamic behavior allows the system to adapt its state based on operational requirements.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the lure is designed to maintain upright orientation, then snag resistance is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
A ballast weight is incorporated into the lure design, positioned to create a natural downward force that maintains the lure in an upright orientation during retrieval. This counterbalancing mechanism simplifies orientation maintenance compared to active control systems while providing consistent snag-resistant positioning.
Solution Approach 2:
The lure design creates a stable equilibrium position where the upright orientation is the natural resting state. The ballast and body geometry are configured so that the lure naturally orients itself vertically during retrieval, eliminating the need for complex active orientation mechanisms.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If the hook remains inside the body during retrieval, then snagging is reduced, but hooking effectiveness may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The hook is pre-positioned within the lure body in a ready state, with the point extending through the exit opening. This preliminary positioning ensures that when a fish bites, the hook is already in the correct position to engage the fish mouth effectively, eliminating the need for additional activation mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The hook is nested within the lure body structure, with the shaft positioned inside a cavity and the point extending through a controlled exit opening. This nesting allows the hook to remain protected during retrieval while still being accessible to fish mouths, resolving the contradiction between exposure for hooking and protection from snagging.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The HBBO and exit hook design enhance fishing efficiency by reducing snagging, maintaining lure orientation, and ensuring secure hooking and easy release of fish, making fishing faster and easier.
Implementation Method 1
a Hard Bodied Ballast Oscillator (HBBO) that oscillates around various axes
Implementation Method 2
an HBBO with positive lift that rises during retrieval
Implementation Method 3
a hook for use in a rigid body which, while being fished, remains at least partially inside the body and reliably pointing upwards, and which, when the fish bites, is at least partially exposed
Data Source
AI summary
The disclosure provides various components for a fishing lure. These components include a Hard Bodied Ballast Oscillator (“HBBO”) which oscillates around various axes, an HBB with positive lift that rises during retrieval, and a hook for use in a rigid body which, while being fished, remains at least partially inside the body and reliably pointing upwards, and which, when the fish bites, is at least partially exposed. In some cases multiple components may be connected to each other via a stiff wire and designed to maintain, in the water, a particular orientation of the components relative to each other.