Abstract: A specific arrow for fishing in shore, the arrow is shot farther from shore by a bow for a good catch of fish. It provides a closed arrow sleeve tube connected to the body of an arrow and a ring is positioned at the front end of the closed arrow sleeve tube, the ring can spin relative to the closed arrow sleeve tube to prevent the body of the arrow from becoming entwined by fishline.

Abstract: A portable camping lantern includes an electrified grid including two half sections embracing the light unit and having indexing structure cooperating with a valve control on the lantern which functions to limit how the grid is placed on the lantern such that a safety interconnect extending from the grid to the battery below the capped refuel opening extends thereacross preventing the refueling of the lantern without disconnecting the power supply from the grid. Insect-attracting odor is sprayed across the grid upwardly from a manifold extending around the lantern and is carried by a carbon dioxide propellant. An insect-attracting sound-emitting unit is positioned closely adjacent to the grid for attracting insects to the grid. An appropriately colored glass enclosure extends around the lantern light to attract insects to the grid.

Abstract: An illuminated fishing assembly comprises a bendable and foldable bar having lamps or bulbs provided therein with the predetermined numbers thereof being connected serially and with the lamps being connected in parallel. There is provided a remotely located power source and with conductors interengaging the same with the lamps. The exterior wall of the bar is transparent so that upon energization of the lamps light will be transmitted through the exterior wall for illuminating the ambient body of water. The bar is suspended within the water from a bouyant member by an elongated flexible member of any predetermined length so as to permit location of the bar at a desired depth. There is suspended from the bar a fishing line of any preselected length which at its end remote from the bar carries conventional fish attracting bait.

Abstract: An artificial fishing lure to simulate the natural movement and shape of live bait. The fishing lure is comprised of flexible resilient material with a hook being embedded in an end portion that forms the body configuration of the lure when engaged back upon itself. The end portion retains a spaced relation to the remaining body with engagement of the hook through the remaining body portion defining an opening within the lure.

Abstract: A portable blind for observing, photographing or hunting birds and animals in their natural habitat which includes a chair and pack frame connected together whereby the blind can be disassembled and packed with the pack frame to the place wherein it is to be used. The chair has a base which allows it to pivot about 360.degree. and a cover extends over and around the chair and is held in place by a hoop structure at the bottom and structure extending upwardly from the pack frame and above the chair. An opening in the front of the cover allows the user to see through the cover. By shuffling one's feet along the ground, the user can pivot the entire blind about 360.degree. to observe birds and animals in any direction from the blind. An optional gun rest table is also provided and is adjustable to accommodate any user.

Abstract: An animal trap adapted for outdoor use to catch relatively small game animals and particularly adapted to be attached to a tree, post, or the like upstanding support and to be used independently of the height of snow and of other unfavorable ground conditions. This animal trap has a fixed jaw and a movable jaw. A bracket with arms projects away from the plane of the fixed jaw. The movable jaw is pivoted to an operative position angularly upwardly relative to the fixed jaw. A detent lever is pivoted between the arms of the bracket with an outer end forming a catch portion intercepting the movable jaw and holding it in operative position. A pair of spring wires operatively bias the movable jaw and cooperate with a chain to attach the trap to a tree, post, or the like, and the bait is attached to the detent lever to pivot the latter and release the movable jaw that then closes against the fixed jaw under the action of the spring wires.

Abstract: Apparatus, especially hand-held, battery-powered apparatus, for the collection and disposal of insects through an open end thereof. In one embodiment, which may be in the form of an attachment for a conventional battery-powered vacuum cleaner, the insect is retained on a screen mounted on a carriage which is movable between rear and front positions within a housing. The front position is close to the open end, and after collecting the insect with the carriage in the rear position, the carriage is moved to the front position, where it is brought to an abrupt stop so that the insect is ejected from the apparatus. The ejection of the insect can alternatively or additionally be assisted by reversing the direction of the air flow through the open end.

Abstract: A trap assembly designed to catch and maintain birds, preferably pigeons, within a storage space of the trap assembly without injuring or harming the birds during the trapping or storing procedure. A closure and entrance of the assembly are cooperatively structured to allow passage of a bird through the entrance and into engagement with the closure element which will be displaced upon such engagement into a non-covering relation to the entrance allowing the bird to pass therethrough but preventing any bird collected within the storage space to exit the entrance thereof.

Abstract: An artificial fishing bait (A, B) includes a broken bill (18, 18') connected to a body (10, 40) by a pivot (29, 18a and 48, 46) enhanced by a lateral slot (16). A spoon (22) of the bill may be weighted at (24) for deeper diving. Plug (A) has a loose omnidirectional pivot (29, 18a) which facilitates natural wobbling of the artificial bait when weighted for depths of 40 feet or more. Shank (30) may be reduced relative to slot (16) and bill opening (18a) made considerably larger than pivot pin 29 facilitating omnidirectional pivoting for plug (A). Plug (B) has a lateral pivot (46, 48) which exhibits side-to-side diversions (52, 56) produced by lateral pivoting only. The amplitudes (52a, 56a) may be reduced to more closely simulate the darting path of bait fish when the spoon (22) is limited by a removable stop peg (50).

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved, easy to assemble fishing lure which utilizes the scent of any species of enclosed live bait to attract fish.

Abstract: The present discovery provides an improved spring loaded fishing hook. In one embodied form, the hook comprises two hook arms which have a shaft portion, a barbed portion and a bend portion. The hook arms are rotatably attached to one another at the end of the shaft away from the barbed portion of the hook arms. A coiled spring is provided with arms, one of which is rotatably attached to each hook in such a way to allow the force of the spring spread the hooks apart when the spring is activated. One of the hook arms has a pivot located above the bend portion of the hook arm which pivotably connects the barbed portion and the bend portion to the shaft portion of the hook arm. The bend portion of each hook arm is located equally distant from the top of the shaft of the hook arm so that when the hook arms are in the activated position the bend portions are in alignment.

Abstract: A fish landing net having a handle with two openings for receiving two flexible members which form a frame for supporting a net. The flexible members are made to telescope within the handle to reduce length. The flexible members are made for connecting and disconnecting the extended end of the flexible members.

Abstract: A spinner bait includes an L-shaped shank portion having a first ledger and a second ledger, the two ledgers crossing substantially at right angle with an eye portion for a fishing line provided at the crossing of the two ledgers. A lip member is provided in the shank portion, the lip member being bent into a longer portion and a shorter portion, wherein the longer portion is bent with respect to the shorter portion, and wherein the shorter portion receives the first ledger and second ledger passing therethrough.

Abstract: A fishing rod which is foldable is pivotally attached at one end to the handle of a bow. The fishing line from a reel is attached to the arrow which is to be shot and extends through the eyelet of the fishing rod to the fishing reel. The fishing rod is folded to about half its length and is rotated about the pivot point down out of the way so as not to hamper the normal shooting of the arrow. When the arrow strikes a fish, the fishing pole is unfolded and rotated to its operating position by triggering a lever. The fishing reel and rod can then be used to reel in the fish.

Abstract: A fishing lure including a jig and a body. The body may be formed in the shape of any suitable bait, for example, a craw-dad, and includes a top wall and side walls to define a channel for receiving the jig. To maintain the body in a horizontal position during movement through the water, a shank having a central horizontal portion; a front upwardly inclined portion; and a rear downwardly inclined portion is provided. A novel keeper formed from lead ballast is provided for holding the body to the jig. The keeper works in conjunction with the jig eye, which protrudes through the front portion of the body for affixing the body to the jig. An upwardly curved hook, hidden beneath the body, engages the body to act as a third keeper. The front of the body may be provided with a spring-like flap for skipping the lure over stones and other foreign objects.

Abstract: A method and device for killing fire ants in a mound comprising a shroud which will fit over the mound and conform to the contour of the ground. The shroud is provided with a relief valve, a tube or hose for admitting an exhaust gas into the shroud and a handle for lifting the device. Exhaust gases directed into the mound and into cavities made by the fire ants will exterminate the ants.

Abstract: An animal trap suited for trapping rodents or the like is shown. The trap comprises a hollow housing with a closure for sealing a trapped animal therein. The normally open closure member operates to seal off the exit of the trapped animal when actuated. The closure is actuated from an open housing position to a sealed off housing position by pivoting the housing from an open end downward position about a fulcrum to an open end upward position. The pivoting of the housing is caused by travel of a small animal therein moving from the open end of the housing toward the closed opposite end to retrieve bait placed at the end opposite the open end.

Abstract: An animal trap of the guillotine type primarily for the capture of mice comprises a housing with an opening for the forebody of an animal. The trap includes a spring biased guillotine member mounted in tracks in a pair of parallel uprights on opposite sides of the opening such that a guillotine member is able to reciprocate between open and closed positions in relation to the opening in the housing. The guillotine member includes detents for releasably engaging the housing assembly and holding the guillotine member in an open set position. The trap further includes a slidable striker member which is spring biased laterally towards the guillotine member and designed to disengage the guillotine member from an open set position by striking the lower portion thereof. A pivotally mounted bait lever projects downward into the housing assembly and includes a detent for releasably engaging the striker member and holding the striker member in a retracted set position.

Abstract: A strike indicator for simple and direct mounting to a flexible fishing pole which is held in a mount at a predetermined angle after casting. The indicator has an elongated hollow elongated casing and a circuit board is supported lengthwise in the casing. A mercury switch is fixed at a predetermined angle on the board, which also has battery contacts receiving disc type batteries as self-contained power. A buzzer and/or lamp is supported by the casing at its exterior and connected to the battery contacts through the mercury switch. An access cap on an end of the casing provides for installation/removal of batteries. At the bottom of the casing spaced apart grommet caddies, aligned along an axis parallel to the bottom, hold annular compressible grommets for engaging around a fishing pole to support the casing on the pole. The grommet caddies include openable sections for installation and substitution of different sized grommets.

Abstract: A hand held device for safely holding a fish hook or small component while a line or leader is attached, having a tapered, slotted pen barrel shaped member (10), which encloses a coil spring (30), which in turn encloses the sharp portion of a hook, a cap (10a) with an adapted pocket clip (20) and a line cutter (21). The device safely assists in attaching line to a fish hook or small component faster than prior methods and produces a knot that is stronger because the line is attached with two wraps of line through the eye of a fish hook.