Abstract: A trotline storage reel on which a trotline with attached hook leader lines and hooks assembled thereon can be wound onto and stored conveniently on a reel and subsequently unwound from the reel from a boat or the like in order to facilitate storage of a trotline, positioning a trotline in a fishing relationship to a body of water and retrieving the trotline. The trotline storage reel includes a reel device with a hub and spaced discs with at least one of the discs including a plurality of radially disposed cages or retainers for the trotline hooks to retain them in position and prevent them from becoming entangled with the trotline or hook leader lines. The reel is inexpensive to manufacture inasmuch as it can be made from plastic or similar material and is effective for winding, storing and placing a trotline in fishing position.

Abstract: A towing hitch having an arm arrangement including a first arm mounted on a vehicle, such as a lawn mower, to be towed and a second arm connected to the first arm and attachable to a towing tractor. Biasing the second arm toward the vehicle being towed is a resilient arrangement which causes the towing tractor and vehicle being towed to travel in parallel, but offset, paths, while a bumper assembly provided on the arm arrangement contacts obstructions, such as trees, in the path of travel of the vehicle being towed so as to change the angular relationship of the first arm and second arm against the bias of the resilient arrangement and route the vehicle being towed around the obstruction.