Fixed Support Line Handling Means, E.g., Trawls Patents (Class 43/27.4)
  • Publication number: 20030005616
    Abstract: A sport fishing outrigger assembly is disclosed that includes a boom attachment arm having a distal end portion and proximal end portion, a rotating arm having a distal head portion capable of releasable attachment to the proximal end portion and a handle engagement, an adjuster for adjusting the releasable attachment of the distal head portion to the proximal end portion, an indexing sleeve secured to the rotating arm, a rotator operatively engaged to the rotating arm, and a handle operatively engaged to the handle engagement and the rotator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2002
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Inventor: Stephen O. Slatter
  • Patent number: 6286245
    Abstract: A tag line return that repositions a tag line to the base of an outrigger after release of a fishing line from the tag line. The return has a housing with internal guides which are adapted to urge the return upwardly when a fishing line is attached to the tag line and to slide downwardly when the fishing line is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Inventor: James E. Broberg