Abstract: A snag-hook particularly adapted for salmon fishing having barbed tines having a central stem terminating into an eye for the attachment of a fish line thereto, the hook may be a three-tined barbed hook having a two-piece weighting device extending from the hook in a direction away from the tines and eye of the hook. The two-piece device constitutes a crown and weight detachably joined by a screw-threaded coupling and clamped to the bight portions of the tines of the hook. The weight may be a generally cylindrical member having a knurled peripheral surface which may be readily grasped by the fingers of the user, and having a threaded boss extending from one end thereof. The crown may be a generally cylindrical member having a bore extending therethrough to receive the eye of a particular size hook. One end of the crown is slotted in accordance with the number of tines of the hook to receive the tines.

Abstract: A snag-hook particularly adapted for salmon fishing having barbed tines having a central stem terminating into an eye for the attachment of a fish line thereto. A weight is provided with slots and a central recessed portion to receive the stem and tines of the hook. The weight extends in an opposite direction from the eye of the hook. A retainer member in the form of a resilient ring having overlapping ends detachably mounts the hook to the weight and accommodates the interchangeability of weights of different sizes and different hooks for different snag-fishing conditions.

Abstract: A line guide ring assembly designed for use on a fishing rod has a pair of fixing frames formed from a punchedout metal plate, a pair of inverted V-shaped ring holding frames formed integral with and in continuation to the rear ends of the fixing frames, said holding frames being bent up vertically to the rod, an X-shaped supporting frame also formed integral with and intermediate the fixing frames, the supporting frame being bent up centrally in the form of a mountain, and a line passing ring secured at its both sides to the upper portions of the inverted V-shaped holding frames and at its bottom to the top of the supporting frame.

Abstract: A trap for flying insects adapted for corner mounting has black-light fluorescent tubes adjacent opposite sides of an electrocution grid within a housing and diffusing reflective panels are positioned behind the fluorescent tubes to reflect rays of light beyond the light sources and through an open side of the housing. A translucent diffusing panel extending across the open side of the housing has gridded openings on opposite sides thereof. Insects attracted to the light approach the light source where they will encounter the electrocution grid or may land upon the translucent panel, from which they may also crawl through the gridded openings.

Abstract: A mosquito trap consisting of a receptacle containing water and having two chambers separated by a screen member. The first chamber is open to the atmosphere while the second chamber is enclosed and contains a food retaining member remote from the first chamber. The mosquito trap permits a female mosquito to lay its eggs in the water of the first chamber. The ensuing larvae will swim through the screen member to the second chamber in quest for the food. Upon growing larger and transforming into a pupa stage and then into a young adult mosquito, they become trapped to die in the second chamber as the screen openings are not of such size to permit the larvae, pupae or mosquitoes to escape back into the first open chamber.

Abstract: Method for baiting hooks secured to a line by means of a snood, in a baiting apparatus to ensure baiting of each hook when pulled through a hook guide and past a bait holder. Prior to hooking the hook into the bait piece the inside of the hook curve is brought into engagement with a movable member to reduce the advancing rate of the hook and together with the hook curve form an enlarged bearing surface against the bait piece to facilitate and ensure conveyance of said bait piece, whereafter the member is released from the hook and returned to starting position. The movable member being a finger for formation of an auxiliary bearing surface between the hook and the bait piece.

Abstract: A pair of oppositely disposed jaws are pivotally movable between open and closed positions, a spring means on the jaws bias the jaws to a normally closed position and a trigger positioned between the jaws releasably hold the jaws in an open position, the trigger being slideably and partially rotable with respect to the pivotal axis of the jaws. The trigger assembly is so constructed to induce the animal to come further into the trap and when released by an animal cause the animal to fall towards and into the trap jaws rather than away from them.

Abstract: A receptacle in which an insect attracting substance is placed, the receptacle including a top surface having a fly trap appendage for trapping insects therewithin. A yieldable arm arrangement supports a swatter above the top surface of the receptacle enabling the user to swat insects by manually depressing the uppermost arm. A tray like member is moveably mounted within the receptacle for periodic emptying of the receptacle and the resupplying of an insect attractor.

Abstract: Apparatus for reducing the likelihood that a sinker or other weighting device on a fishing line will become snagged on underwater obstructions includes a hollow receptacle having a cross-section much larger than the cross-section of the sinker. A relatively small aperture is provided in the leading portion of the receptacle, and a large aperture is provided in the trailing end. The fishing line passes through the small aperture in the receptacle to engage the sinker which is inserted into the receptacle through the large aperture. A plurality of elongate, flexible, resilient whiskers project outwardly from the leading portion of the receptacle. The whiskers fend the receptacle off of the underwater obstacles, and the large size of the receptacle minimizes the chances that it will become snagged on such obstacles.

Abstract: A fishing device has a spring steel inverted U-shaped spring member provided with two arms which terminate at their ends in double barbed hooks projecting inwardly toward each other, a baited fishing hook is suspended between the arms on strings extending horizontally between the arms such that when a fish passes between the double barbed members and nibbles at the bait on the baited hook the spring unit is activated to engage the barbed units into the fish.

Abstract: A fishing hook assembly in which there is provided at least two fishing hooks disposed in laterally spaced apart relationship, with each hook being supported by a portion of a shank separated from an adjacent shank having a hook associated therewith. The fishing hook assembly further includes a bait holding structure that is carried by the fishing hook assembly and is adapted to receive and hold the particular bait generally between the laterally spaced hooks and associated laterally spaced shanks. A first species comprises a safety pin bait holding device secured to the front of the fish hook assembly and adapted to penetrate through the body of the fish and to be securedly fastened to hold the bait thereabout in a position again generally between the laterally spaced shanks and hooks.

Abstract: Improvement in a fishing warning light device having a battery operated light to warn a fisherman that a fish is biting on a fishing pole and electrical circuitry for lighting the light, the improvement comprising a lengthwise extending insulative base, the base carrying the circuitry, and a mechanism for removably mounting the device in an in-use position thereof on the pole so that the base is disposed lengthwise of the pole in the in-use position, the mounting mechanism for the device arranged to squeeze the base against an eye on the pole so as to make a solid mechanical connection between the device and the pole, the mounting mechanism comprising a slot in one end of the base for engaging the eye, and a pinch type fastener on the other end of the base for clamping on the pole, the fastener moveable lengthwise of the pole to push the base against the eye, whereby the squeezing of the base is accomplished by the fastener forcing the slot into full length engagement with the eye.

Abstract: An enclosed passageway which provides a housing that is open at one end and has a back closure wall on which is mounted a trap mechanism that is capable of being both set and baited from outside the enclosed housing without handling the trap mechanism itself, and which is disposable or capable of having the entrapped and killed animal displaced therefrom without personal contact.

Abstract: A mouse trap incorporated within a jar lid for trapping a mouse within a jar to which the lid is attached. The mouse trap includes a trap door which is mounted for vertical sliding movement across a mouse size opening in the lid. The trap door is manually moved to elevated open position and is held for release by swinging movement of a bait holder mounted on the inside of the lid. Such movement is caused by the mouse taking the bait, which is accessible only from within the jar. The door moves down quickly by force of gravity, closes the opening and trapping the mouse within the jar.

Abstract: A frame is insertable into the ground or mountable on any supporting structure such as the side of a boat or wharf and has an adjustable cradle fastened thereon for holding a fishing pole and includes spring and adjustable fastener means for applying the proper tension for the cradle contact with a push button switch which activates a horn and a light.A rocker and tongue element are attached to the cradle in such a way that they permit cradle movement and positive switch contact while the cradle is mounted in combination with mounting elements permitting the in-ground and both horizontal and vertical surface mounting of the fishing pole holder.

Abstract: A filling spout supplies a food slurry under pressure to one portion of a rotating drum having molding cavities through its periphery to fill the cavities. An ejector inside the drum applies hot fluid under pressure to the inner ends of the pellets in the cavities to eject them from the drum. The drum is mounted on a bearing rotatable on and slidable along a hollow arbor serving as a conduit for the hot fluid, and the drum is slidable between an operating position adjacent the spout and the ejector, and a cleaning position completely removed from the spout and the ejector.

Abstract: A flying gaff, useful in gaffing large fish such as sharks, comprising a hook containing an elongated shaft and a wing member mounted on said shaft such that the wing member is capable of rotational movement around the shaft with little axial movement, said wing member having an aperture at its lower extremity through which a rope may be readily attached and detached. The gaff also includes a handle to detachably receive the lower extremity of the shaft such that the shaft may be readily urged into and detached from the handle.

Abstract: A container has one or more openings which extend into the container down elongated passageways. The passageways have needle prodders mounted along sidewalls to discourage rodent retreat once a rodent has entered the passageway. The interior ends of the passageways have doors with small holes for permitting rodents to smell enticing substances on the interior of the container, which doors are structured with lengths greater than the height of the passageways such that the doors extend into the interior of the container at an angle and can only be opened into the interior. The doors have needles on interior sides to keep rodents captured therein away from said doors. Sidewalls of the passageways extend into the interior of the container for keeping captured rodents away from side edges of the doors when in any open position.

Abstract: An elongated resilient and pliable worm-like in appearance sleeve is positioned on the free end of a fishline and a hook engaging the line has its shank extending into the outer end of the sleeve with the barb portions extending rearwardly along the peripheral side of the sleeve. The line extends along the longitudinal center of the sleeve and out the rear end which is open and may be closed by a bead movable along the line. Emulsified fish bait may be placed in the sleeve through the open end through use of a squeeze-type dispensing bottle. The sleeve includes a plurality of outlet openings in its side wall through which the bait is dispensed during use. Action of the sleeve on the line during use causes the line to agitate the bait material and facilitate its being dispensed through the outlet openings.

Abstract: A trap comprising a three-dimensional frame formed by a pair of spaced, superposed bent wire rings. A coil spring is mounted on the frame and its free end functions as a gripping arm capable of radial movement between the rings. Two-part latch means is mounted on one of the frame sides, near its mid-point, and operates pivotally in a plane transverse to the plane of the frame. Trigger means is attached to one of the latch members and lies spaced from and generally parallel to the frame plane when the trap is set.