Fishing Lure With Nested Exit Hook for Snag Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing fishing lures face challenges such as snagging on obstacles, difficulty in maintaining orientation, and inefficient hooking mechanisms, leading to frustration and inefficiency in catching and releasing fish.
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 the body and only the point exposed. This nested configuration allows the hook to remain protected during retrieval while still enabling reliable engagement with fish mouths, thereby reducing snagging on obstacles while maintaining hooking effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of exposing the entire hook for easy engagement, the design inverts the approach by hiding the hook shaft within the body and exposing only the necessary point portion. This inversion reduces the hook's exposure to obstacles while maintaining its functional capability to hook fish.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the lure is designed to dive during retrieval to avoid snags, then snag resistance is improved, but orientation stability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
A weight is positioned within the lure body to provide counterbalancing and stabilize the lure's orientation during retrieval. This counterweight counteracts the diving action that would cause orientation instability, allowing the lure to maintain a stable upright orientation while still benefiting from reduced snag resistance.
Solution Approach 2:
The lure design incorporates specific geometric parameters including a tapered body shape and positioned weight that work together to maintain stable orientation during retrieval. The body geometry and weight distribution are optimized to prevent excessive diving while reducing snag contact.
3Reliability
If multiple hooks are used to increase catching probability, then catching probability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The lure body serves multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as the main body structure, provides housing for the hook, contains the weight for stabilization, and presents the oscillating blade for fish attraction. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate components and simplifies the overall device while maintaining high catching probability.
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 consistent hooking, making it easier to catch and release fish.
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
This creates a roughly conic-shaped disturbance in the water that fish can easily sense with their lateral lines
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.