Abstract: A spring-loaded, double acting fish hook assembly having a single strand of spring wire bent to provide two legs extending from the bend to respective terminal ends. A pair of essentially conventional, banked fish hooks are fixedly attached to the terminal ends of the legs, one of which is further bent in a 360.degree. loop to provide a torsion spring, by first and second connecting members. One of the connecting members also serves as a pivotal mounting for a catch and trigger mechanism, and the other connecting member provides a latch for the catch arm of the catch and trigger mechanism. A perforated spinner blade is preferably mounted on the legs other than that having the 360.degree. loop for rotation as the lure moves through the water.

Abstract: A spring-loaded, double-acting fish hook having a pair of oppositely directed barbed hooks at the ends of a pair of legs of a spring member. The spring is disclosed as of the safety pin type, bent in a loop at its midpoint and having a catch on one leg engageable by a latch pivotally mounted on the other leg to maintain the spring in a flexed position with the hooks overlapping one another. Pressure on a trigger arm extending integrally from the latch to a position closely adjacent one of the hooks releases the latch, allowing the biasing force of the spring to move the legs, and thus the hooks, in opposite directions.