Abstract: A pair of cross jaw pliers with handles and jaws pivoted around a pivot pin with a container in each handle, one for storing and dispensing fishhooks and the other for storing and dispensing split shot sinkers. Both handles have a short bowed section joined to a longer hollow tube portion. The short bowed sections compensate for the lack of curvature in the longer tube portions. Each tube portion is closed with a normally closed valve that is adapted to be opened with finger or thumb pressure to gravity-feed the fishhooks and sinkers. The jaws of the pliers are biased open and have a recess for seating and retaining a split shot sinker and crimping it on a fishing line. The jaws also have longitudinal blades for cutting the fishing line.

Abstract: A multi-purpose fishing tool to aid in the cutting of line and the maintenance of fish hooks and flies is disclosed. The fishing tool comprises two normally spaced-apart hand grips that are attached to a common flexure assembly. A knife blade is mounted to one of the hand grips and is oriented and directed to abut an anvil surface on the other hand grip. One of the hand grips contains a storage compartment that is normally enclosed by an outer cover of the hand grip. The second hand grip contains a file that can be extended through an opening in the butt end of the hand grip for the actuation of a lever normally seated in a slot in the base of the hand grip. A pin for cleaning the eyelet of flies and hooks is mounted to the frame of the tool.

Abstract: A pair of fisherman's pliers for connecting a lead fishing weight to a fishing line comprises a pair of pliers with a pair of handles pivotally connected to a pair of elongated and tapered jaws such that the jaws are brought together as the handles are brought together. A blade on the jaws is provided for cutting an elongated piece of lead to the desired length, with a wedge provided for impressing a notch into one end of the elongated piece of lead. The jaws are provided with opposed surfaces for pressing the notch closed around a length of fishing line. Depressions are also provided on the jaws for receiving a spherical piece of lead so that it can be crimped onto a fishing line.

Abstract: A sportsman multiple use tool is a device for allowing the sportsman a variety of tools in one. It comprises a locking bill with teeth for grasping, serrated sides on the bill for scraping, a crimper which is designed within the spacers which keep the teeth from breaking and a groove in the front of the bill for use as a degouger. A device as such will allow the sportsman to use the tool, in camping for securing items and handling hot pots, coals, etc., in hunting for grasping hides when skinning or tanning, in fishing as an all around tool for grasping fish, crabs, turtles, etc., degouging hooks, crimping weights on fishing line, and scraping fish scales off fish.

Abstract: A tool for fastening the sinker to the fishing line with a pressing facility installed at its side wall portion of the container of sinkers for inserting the sinkers in the notches having been formed. In fastening the sinkers to the fishing line, those sinkers taken out of the container are placed in the notches and are fixed to the fishing line by fastening the pressing facility portion with hand by gripping it.

Abstract: A portable hand-held apparatus for sharpening fish hooks and stripping lines from a fish spool. The apparatus includes a housing having an inlet port, an exit port and an aperture through which a sharpening mechanism extends. A motor mechanism is mounted within the housing operatively connected to a roller mechanism and the sharpening mechanism. The roller mechanism is aligned with the inlet and exit ports and is arranged to engage the free end of a line, guided through the housing inlet port. The roller mechanism transports the line through the housing and out the exit port, stripping the line off the spool. A sharpening mechanism rotatably projects through the housing aperture to engage a fish hook barb or other object.

Abstract: The present invention is a multi-purpose device for use by fishermen. A first lever arm includes a handle, a primary jaw element and a secondary jaw element. A second lever arm includes a handle and a primary jaw element. The second lever arm is pivotally connected to the first lever arm so that the primary jaw elements form a pair of primary jaws for gripping, crimping or cutting. A jaw member includes a flange and a secondary jaw element. The jaw member is pivotally connected to the first lever arm in proximity to the secondary jaw element so that the secondary jaw elements form a pair of secondary jaws for gripping hooks embedded in the gullet of a fish. A connecting link is pivotally connected between the second lever arm and the jaw member, so that the primary and secondary jaws simultaneously open and close in response to pivotal movement of the handles relative to each other.

Abstract: A fisherman's tool for cutting line and cleaning hooks that includes a pair of adjacent elongated spring members having ends curved generally in the same direction, with a cutting edge on one and line receiving recesses adjacent the end of the other so that when squeezed together the cutting edge wipes across the recesses severing line positioned therein. A hook eye cleaning point is formed integrally on the end of one of the spring members and it is rotated in the hook eye to clean paint, leader or line from the eye.

Abstract: A fisherman's pliers combines in a single tool the gripping, holding, compressing and flattening features of a needlenose or similar pliers with a hole punch and with both straight edge and half-moon metal cutters, whereby hollow and solid so-called "pencil lead" sinker material can be prepared efficiently while fishing for attachment as a sinker to a fishing line.

Abstract: A fish tackle tool including a line cutter having a slotted base portion and a blade portion which cuts fishing line placed in the base slots and a wedge shaped line threader which holds a hook and has a slot for guiding a fishline through the eyelet of the hook.

Abstract: A tool is disclosed for attaching slotted weights to a fishing line. The tool has a base having a channel and an opening for insertion of the fishing line traversing the channel. An abutment across the channel is located adjacent to the opening. A transfer block is slidably mounted within the channel in the body. The transfer block urges a slotted weight against the abutment to close the slot and attach the weight to the line. Means are provided for moving the transfer block within the channel in the base. The tool also includes a reservoir for storage of a plurality of slotted weights and discharging individual weights into the channel. The reservoir is preferably tubular with a single flat surface for maintaining the weights in proper orientation with a flat orienting surface opposite the slot. The tool also includes a weight removal device attached to be moved with the transfer block, which device opens the slot in the weight and removes the weight from the line.