Chum dispensing attachment for fishing rigs

Claim 1

A chum holder and dispenser for use alternately with a float in surface fishing and with a sinker in bottom fishing, said chum holder and dispenser comprising a substantially cylindrical hollow plastic body having symmetrically conically tapered end portions, said body having a multiplicity of perforations arranged to cover a major portion of its total surface, said body formed in two substantially semi-cylindrical half sections and said half sections hingedly connected along corresponding longitudinal edges inwardly of and between the conically tapered end portions, releasable snap fastener means on the opposite corresponding longitudinal edges of said half sections enabling the half sections to be closed around a mass of chum and around either a float element or a sinker element, diametrically opposing integral post elements on the interiors of said conically tapered end portions near the opposite end extremities of said body, the post elements of one half section having longitudinally aligned grooves for the snug reception of a fishing line or leader extending axially through the chum holder and dispenser and said aligned grooves having their axes coinciding with the longitudinal axis of the chum holder and dispenser, said last-named post elements having axially aligned enlarged resilient socket openings immediately above said grooves and slightly laterally offset from the longitudinal axis of the chum holder and dispenser, and coacting locking heads on the post elements of the other half section adapted for snap locking engagement within said sockets when the two half sections are closed and said snap fastener means are engaged, said locking heads then pressing on said fishing line or leader within said grooves.