LESLIE M THOMAS
Nursing at Ml Spg Ln, Fort Lauderdale, FL

5992085, Nov 30, 1999

Sep 29, 1997

8/939392

Benjamin I. Schultz - Fort Lauderdale FL
Leslie Ann Thomas - Fort Lauderdale FL

A01K 8500, A01K 8306

43 442

A squid mounting rig for shaping and securing the body of a dead squid having a squid body tubular portion and squid tentacles for fishing includes a squid body mounting structure for insertion longitudinally into the squid body tubular portion, the mounting structure having lateral extent for laterally filling out the squid body, a fishing hook mounting structure and a fishing line engagement structure, and a fishing hook connected to the fishing hook mounting structure. The hook preferably includes a hook eyelet and the mounting structure preferably includes a plate body having a plate forward end including the fishing line engagement structure in the form of a fishing line-passing port and having a plate rearward end including the hook mounting structure in the form of a hook eyelet-passing port. The plate rearward end is preferably beveled. The plate forward end preferably has tapered shoulder edges terminating in a forwardly extending elongate stem portion including the fishing line-passing port.

2001001, Aug 16, 2001

Sep 24, 1999

09/405874

BENJAMIN I. SCHULTZ - FORT LAUDERDALE FL, US
LESLIE A. THOMAS - FORT LAUDERDALE FL, US

A01K075/02

043/017600

A jig-type fishing lure has a weighted lure body holding a gravity-operated switch that controls the energization of an LED for illuminating fiber optic strands extending from the tail end of the lure body in proximity to a fishhook. A heat shrunk tube in the lure body holds the LED and the adjacent ends of the fiber optic strands.