While the art of fishing planers, sometimes called seakites is highly developed, in conventional planers there remain the tendency of the planer to work and twist the bail loose from the vane, which working may result from normal and desirable lure action during trolling. Hence, prior fishing planers have heretofore required relatively expensive assembly, as by welding or the like, or been subject to relatively rapid loosening and malfunction, requiring repair or replacement of parts.