Abstract: A powered fishing reel is described which permits manual operation and powered operation providing the fishing line has no load on it. A hollow shaft with a concentric opening in it drives, by means of gear means, the reel upon which the fishing line is wound. A manual shuttle with a crank handle on it can be inserted into one end of the hollow shaft to rotate the reel. A power shuttle similarly can be inserted into the opposite end of the hollow shaft. A bevel gear on the power shuttle. A transfer shuttle is located between the power shuttle and the manual shuttle and serves to push the manual shuttle with the crank handle out of the hollow shaft. A battery is located in the handle of the fishing rod to power an electric motor mounted in a motor assembly so that the electric motor which through gears and a shaft rotates the bevel gear. The same finger hook slides the power shuttle into the hollow shaft and closes a switch which energizes the electric motor.

Abstract: An automatic cut-off motorized reeling assembly is provided including a fishing pole with a reel attached thereto at an inboard end thereof. The reel has a handle rotatably coupled thereto and a spool rotatably coupled thereto about an axis perpendicular to an axis about which the handle rotates. A gear assembly is connected between the spool and the handle for automatically reeling the reel only upon the receipt of voltage thus requiring the manual reeling of the reel upon the lack of receipt of voltage. A switch is connected between a power source and the gear means with a deactuated orientation for precluding the supply of voltage to the motor and an actuated orientation adapted to supply voltage to the motor. A cut off mechanism is provided for unconditionally precluding the supply of voltage to the gear assembly upon a load being detected on a line of the pole, as when a fish is caught, thereby requiring the user to manually reel the line.