Abstract:
A fishing lure retriever is disclosed which is of the of the class including a generally cylindrical weighted main body and eye guides adapted to slidably couple the retriever to a fishing line, thus permitting it to slide down the fishing line to the site of a lodged lure. Lure engagement structure is provided integral with the retriever and is generally bulbous, being composed of a series of equatorially distributed filament loops. A cord fixed to the upper end of the retriever permits tugging on it after engagement has been made with a lodged lure to dislodge and retrieve the lure. The bulbous engagement structure is preferably formed by feeding the filament out a first one of a plurality of circumferentially equally distributed apertures provided in a lower cap member of the retriever and back in the diametrically opposite aperture, then back out an aperture adjacent the first aperture, the process thereafter continuing from position to position to obtain the equatorially distributed loops effecting the ball-like structure.