Abstract: A hand held device for disengaging a fish hook from a fish's mouth without the need to remove the fish from the water. The device comprises a through bored tubular body having a proximal end sized for manual gripping and a distal end sized for insertion into a fish's mouth, and also has a slot extending the length of the tubular body. The device is operated by aligning the slot with fishing line, which is taut from the pull of a fish line, and pushing it into the through bore. The fisherman then slides the device down the fishing line and engages the bend of the fish hook with the front edge of the device, and pushes abruptly. This releases the fish. Flanges, which are operable to inhibit accidental exit of a fishing line during the release process, extend from the both sides of the slot inwardly into through bore.

Abstract: A hand held knot tying device used for tying fishermen's knots, such as nail knots, which are used to tie monofilament segments to fishing line segments. The device has a straight portion that extends approximately one-half of its length at which point the other half tapers down to a diameter that is small relative to the straight portion. The grooves run the length of the straight portion but run out in the tapered portion due to the taper going below the depth of the grooves. To tie a knot with the device, the fisherman lays the fishing line in the widest groove, then, coming from the opposite direction, he lays the monofilament in one of the other grooves. Next, and having provided enough slack to do so, he wraps the monofilament back upon itself and the fly line, so as to form multiple coils, and then tunnels the free end of the monofilament back beneath the coils, using the third groove as a tunneling means. He then tightens the coils to form a knot around the straight portion.

Abstract: A hand-held hot-tying device used for forming fishermen's knots, such as blood knots, which are used to tie two fishing lines segments together. The device is flat with a base from which three spaced-apart legs extend at right angles. The device may be formed from an assembly consisting of congruent plates which are fastened together adjacently. The adjacent spaced-apart legs of the assembly provide three sets of two nips into which the fishing line is wedged and held fast. The top portion of each nip is tapered so as to facilitate insertion of the fishing line segments. While one free end of line to be joined remains held fast, the free end of the other is manipulated on the device and then clamped to the center legs. Then the free end of the other line to be joined is likewise manipulated and clamped to the center legs.

Abstract: A hand-held knot-tying device used for forming fishermen's knots, such as blood knots, which are used to tie two fishing lines segments together. The device is flat with a base from which two spaced-apart legs extend at right angles. The device may be formed from an assembly consisting of congruent plates which are fastened together adjacently. The assembly also includes a medial member. The spaced apart legs of the assembly provide two sets of two nips into which the fishing line is wedged and held fast. The top portion of each nip is tapered so as to facilitate insertion of the fishing line segments. The medial member is manipulated on the device so as to form two sets of coils in the line segments on either side of the medial member. Following the aforesaid line manipulation, free ends of the line segments are clamped to the medial member which is then pulled through a loop formed between the coils so as to form a loose knot.

Abstract: A telescopic sight for use on a firearm, which sight provides an eye relief of greater than about 3.0 inches and an exit pupil of greater than about 25 mm. so that the target as viewed through the scope will substantially fill the eyepiece. The scope reduces the necessity of close alignment of the viewer's eye with the optical axis of the scope, thus enabling the viewer to quickly pick up the target with the scope and fire.