Open Eye Hook

Abstract

The Open Eye Hook is designed to make fishing faster and easier. The Open Eye Hook is the fishing hook that is designed with the channel gap that allows the fishing line to slip into the eyelet of the hook. The gap compresses the fishing line without any weakening of the strength of fishing line. Once the fishing line is inserted within the eyelet of the hook, the fishing line is locked within the eyelet.

1 . A method for inserting a fishing line into an eye of a fish hook comprising: placing a fishing line against a shank portion of the fish hook; drawing the fishing line along the shank portion until encountering an eye of the fish hook at an end of the shank portion, the eye having an opening immediately proximate the shank portion, the opening of a width smaller than a diameter of the fishing line; and urging the line into the opening with force while holding the fish hook, until the fishing line deforms sufficiently to pop into the inner region of the eye. 
     
     
         2 . The fish hook of  claim 1  wherein the fixed width is a width less than the known diameter of a specific fishing line. 
     
     
         3 . A fish hook, comprising: a point proximate a barb; a curved portion extending from the point and barb, following a curvilinear path through substantially 180 degrees; a shank portion extending in a substantially straight line away from the curved portion; and an eye having an inner region for enclosing a fishing line, the eye formed of a rod-like material contiguous with the shank portion at a first point, following a curvilinear path through at least two-hundred seventy degrees, and terminating at a second point short of contacting the shank portion, leaving an opening of a predetermined width into the inner region of the eye.