Abstract: The fishing rod handle attachment is comprised of a handle, a handle extension for positioning the handle directly above the fishing rod, and an attaching device for rigidly attaching the handle attachment to the fishing rod. The handle is comprised of an elongated member and a support member. The elongated member is gripped by a user's hand while the user is fishing, the elongated member being transverse to the fishing rod, horizontally oriented, and positioned directly above the fishing rod when the fishing rod is being used for fishing. The support member is rigidly attached to the elongated member and provides the means for attaching the elongated member to the handle extension. In some embodiments of the invention, provision is made for adjusting the position of the elongated member relative to the attachment point of the handle attachment to the fishing rod.

Abstract: A heterogeneous catalyst formed by the steps of:(a) irradiating an organic macromolecular substrate or a metal substrate with ionizing or U.V. radiation in the presence of a monomer selected from the group comprising o-, m-, or p- styryl diphenyl phosphine or o-, m-, or p- phenyl acrylyl diphenyl phosphine to graft the monomer to the substrate, and(b) reacting the graft copolymer with a homogeneous catalyst selected from the group consisting of catalytic metal salts and catalytic organometallic complexes such that the monomer-substrate conjugate becomes a ligand of the catalyst.These catalysts have particular activity in hydrogenation reactions, hydroformylation reactions, isomerization reactions, cracking reactions and dehydrogenation reactions of organic compounds.