Abstract: A casting or fishing rod includes a handle assembly and a rod assembly. The rod assembly is rotatably connected to the handle assembly by a hinge and is swingable through an arc of movement between aligned and skewed positions with respect thereto. A line release mechanism includes fixed and movable jaws mounted on the rod assembly and an actuator mounted on the handle assembly for automatically actuating the movable jaw to release a line passing through the line release mechanism upon completing a casting swing whereby the rod assembly is swung from its skewed position to its aligned position.

Abstract: An apparatus for launching a fishing line, that can be fixed to the ground and the fishing rod or held to the body by straps that has in its front end an explosion chamber in which a cartridge is acommodated against the stem of a fishing line sinker which has been inserted through a hole in the end of the apparatus, and a percussion pin which is slidable through a sleeve to impact the primer of the cartridge by means of a percussion device comprising at least one spiral spring that when released by means of a firing mechanism activates the percussion device to drive the percussion pin against the primer of the cartridge.

Abstract: A quick release bow fishing device is provided. The device allows for a quick connect and disconnect of a fishing rod and reel from an archery bow. The device is comprised of a connecting shaft that attaches to the bow at the socket conventionally employed for a stabilizer attachment. The fishing rod is provided with a longitudinally bored channel within the handle to receive the shaft. The shaft is constructed so that trigger catch means engage the shaft to restrict relative motion of the shaft within the channel thus holding the bow and rod together. The trigger catch release is located on the handle for easy manipulation by the operator to effect a release of the shaft for a quick disconnect of the rod from the bow. Another embodiment of the device is provided with the shaft having radial arms to engage retaining slots in the rod handle.

Abstract: A casting rod combined with an open face reel such that during a cast swing, a main portion of the rod moves in front of the reel to avoid colliding with casting line peeling off at the reel spool. The line is guided by a rod tip guide positioned at a tip portion of the rod. The combination is arranged such that nothing other than the mentioned guide contacts the line during the cast, thereby producing very little friction. During line retrieval, a retrieval guide positioned between the reel and the rod tip guide, guides the line onto the grooved rim of a roller as the rod bends under load. Several embodiments of the invention include various mechanisms for releasing the line during the cast swing. The rod can cast heavy lines without backlash and has applications that are not limited to fishing.

Abstract: A casting rod provides a reel seat with trigger mechanism having a depending arm to fasten a first rearward end of an endless elastic propellant device. The second forward end of the elastic propellant device is carried by a depending arm of a stretching mechanism that is selectively positionable on the rod at plural points spacedly forward of the first depending arm. A fishing line carried in ordinary fashion by the rod is fastened to the propellant device and projected with it, responsive to trigger motion, to propel the fishing line in predetermined trajectory at a distance from the rod. The propellant device remains interconnected to the end portion of a fishing line to there serve as a float or sinker depending upon density of that propellant device.

Abstract: A specific arrow for fishing in shore, the arrow is shot farther from shore by a bow for a good catch of fish. It provides a closed arrow sleeve tube connected to the body of an arrow and a ring is positioned at the front end of the closed arrow sleeve tube, the ring can spin relative to the closed arrow sleeve tube to prevent the body of the arrow from becoming entwined by fishline.

Abstract: A fishing rod which is foldable is pivotally attached at one end to the handle of a bow. The fishing line from a reel is attached to the arrow which is to be shot and extends through the eyelet of the fishing rod to the fishing reel. The fishing rod is folded to about half its length and is rotated about the pivot point down out of the way so as not to hamper the normal shooting of the arrow. When the arrow strikes a fish, the fishing pole is unfolded and rotated to its operating position by triggering a lever. The fishing reel and rod can then be used to reel in the fish.

Abstract: A fishing rod, having a longitudinal through bore for the reception of the terminal tackle (fly, spoon, spinner, plug, baited hook, etc.) replaces the conventional rod and has a port at its rearward end, communicating with a charge of air from the operator's lungs to launch said terminal tackle, thus eliminating the need for the traditional arm casting action required in the use of conventional fishing rods. The bore includes a second lateral port a small distance forward of the rearward port for receiving a flexible strand, wound on a conventional fishing reel, and having its free end attched to the terminal tackle. Said terminal tackle has an integrated impeller-seal, designed to cooperate with various styles of lures, bait and the like.

Abstract: Fishing device, comprising a rod (10, 16) which forms a guide for a carriage (21) displaceable along the rod, which has means (22) for carrying along a bite (23) on a line (25) running out from a coiling or spinning reel (61). The fishing device also comprises projecting means (26, 27, 31) for chocklike displacement of the carriage from the rear end of the guide towards an abutment (15) arranged at the free end of the rod, while the bite is being projected from the carriage, stopped by the abutment, and the line being withdrawn from the coiling or spinning reel. The projecting means include a rubber cord (27), which is attached to a driving slide (26) displaceable in the guide, which can be arrested by means of holding means (33, 35) at the rear end of the rod with the rubber cord stretched between the driving slide and a point (30) between the ends of the rod, the holding means being releasable for disengagement of the driving slide, the carriage being driven by the spring bias of the rubber cord.

Abstract: A special clamping mechanism is disclosed for holding a reel to a bow for use in bow fishing which can be attached to a bow without screws, bolts or the like. It includes an upper clamp and a lower clamp, each clamp wrapping around the bow in a unique manner and is made of one continuous piece. A reel support member is attached to the clamping mechanism. A shooting strap is connected to the bow next to the spot thereon where the holding hand grasps the bow.

Abstract: A device relating to a breakdown sport fishing rod, to better utilize the energy applied to casting a weight. The device having a fishing rod butt section supporting an adjustable rotating spool at its tip end. The spool has an attached cylindrical appendage capable of receiving interchangeable rod blanks. The appendage also adapted to support and provide adjustments for a pulley. The pulley communicating by means of elastomers and or cables with one or a pair of pulleys placed in a second adjustable environment on an additional appendage. This appendage is one of a flexible variety and supported by said rod butt section. The present invention induces an exaggeration of rod action, resulting in an increase in the rods recoil power and velocity, providing a longer cast of common fishing projectiles.

Abstract: A fishing rod unit for use particularly in areas of thick vegetation. The specific device is an attachment for fishing rods and, in particular, a fishing rod combination wherein the fishing line passes along the central axis of hollow components. The attachment is a hollow elongated body having an internal diameter sufficient to accept a conventional float carried by the fishing line. The length of this body is sufficient to encase the float, a weight and the bait. Tension on the fishing line causes the float, when within the body of the attachment, to compress a coiled spring within the base thereof. The extreme end of the body carries an enlarged portion that assists a fisherman in the passing of the rod through thick vegetation. Since there is no portion of the line, or the attachments thereto, exposed to the vegetation, entanglement with the vegetation is prevented.

Abstract: An improved apparatus and method for fishing at a location in water relatively remote from where the fisherman is positioned on land, under conditions where there is a wind blowing in a direction from the fisherman toward the location where he wants the hook and bait to be located in the water, the improved apparatus and method to be used with a conventional fishing rod, reel, fishing line, fishing jig, hook and bait.

Abstract: A winch includes a spindle plate having a plurality of pins fixed thereon, the pins forming the core of a winch and the line of the trap is wound on the pins. An ejector plate is axially slidable for ejecting the wound line from the pins into the water. The space surrounded by the pins forms a basket in which the buoy is put in the winding-in step, this securing the line to the pins for the winding. The ejection step is produced by a slidable ejection shaft carrying the ejection plate, and driven by a motor. An advancing shaft is carried by and within the ejection shaft, and at the final movement of the ejection shaft, the advancing shaft ejects the buoy clear of the line coil. The advancing shaft is moved relative to the ejection shaft, by a cam carried by the ejection shaft and engaging a fixed trip unit.

Abstract: An improved missile tube for a rocket propelled fishing device powered by a blank cartridge and a rocket motor, the improved missile tube containing a plurality of pivotably mounted clip tabs securing the fishing line, fishing leader and fishing hook to the missile tube in streamlined position during flight, the pivotably mounted clip tabs, rotating after ejection of the rocket motor to permit the fishing line, fishing leader and fishing hook to detach from the pivotably mounted clip tabs and fall into the water, the missile tube itself serving as the sinker for the fishing line, fishing leader and fishing hook.

Abstract: A fishing slingshot fixture adapted to receive a fishing reel and a slingshot detachably coupled thereto comprising a base plate having a forward extending guide arm with a vertically adjustable fishing line guide-eye mounted thereon. Clamping means are provided for quickly and easily clamping a fishing reel to the top of the base plate and for clamping a slingshot behind the base plate. A fisherman may propel a baited hook or fishing lure into a desired location using the slingshot. The guide eye allows a fishing line to be unreeled from and be reeled onto the reel without becoming tangled.

Abstract: A device for casting a weighted fishing line that includes a hollow cylindrical member having threaded thereon at one end a conical augered spike and having on the other end a cap which is held onto the cylindrical member by means of a ridge on the cylindrical member. The cap has a slot which corresponds with a slot in the cylindrical member through which the fishing line is threaded. The casting device is adapted for use with the fishing line attached to a weight of a geometrical shape such that it will not pass through the aperture in the cylindrical member. The augered spike is screwed into the earth, the weighted line is placed into the cylindrical member and the cap placed onto the member such that when pressure is applied to the fishing line this pressure is transferred to the cap on the cylindrical member by means of the weight on the line which is pulled up against the slot in the member to release the cap.

Abstract: A casting rod includes an elongated piston chamber tube and a connected guide tube for enclosing and guiding a push rod to accelerate and project a fishing lure or other weighted device attached to a line. The push rod has a piston fixed to its rearward end for coaction with the chamber tube, and the rod projects through the guide tube having a mounting tube at its exterior exposed end which is the rod tip. A weighted device has an axial pin received within the mounting tube and attached to the line which passes through a line aperture in the mounting tube. The rod includes a valve housing and handle at its base end, the handle enclosing a CO.sub.2 cartridge which is pierced to pressurize the valve chamber. A valve interposed between the valve chamber and the cylinder chamber is opened momentarily by a firing pin impacted by a hammer to pass a charge of pressurized gas to the piston chamber to accelerate the push rod and project the lure.

Abstract: A fishing rod casting device for a disabled person is provided, comprising a base for attachment to a wheelchair with an adjustable holder for a reel and a casting rod member pivotally connected to said base. Calibratable biasing means are provided on the holder pivot housing to accommodate the strength of the operator in cocking and releasing the casting device, a support device is provided, for attachment to the usable body member of the operator, having an operating lever adapted to engage a cocking and releasing ring on the holder housing, to cock and release the same for casting. The same operating lever is used to activate the reel to draw in the catch.

Abstract: Fishing apparatus comprising a reel mounted on a tubular member, a short pilot rod pivotally connected to the tubular member, a spring housed in the tubular member and connected to the pilot rod for urging it from a first position toward a second position, and latch means for so retaining the pilot rod in the first position as to be responsive to a motion of the fish line reacting to a fish striking the lure, for jerking the line to set the hook as the pilot rod is moved toward its second position. A weight, carried on the line, can also be cast from the apparatus by mounting it on the pilot rod, pulling the pilot rod against the spring tension toward the reel, and then releasing the pilot rod.

Abstract: A target fishing apparatus is disclosed which when attached to a conventional rod and reel assembly allows casting of a baited hook to a desired location. The unit may be used in areas where restricted overhead clearance precludes conventional casting. Actuation of a trigger mechanism causes an elastic member to propel a lure and attached line from a bait cup toward the target area.

Abstract: A fishing rod, having a longitudinal bore for the reception of an elongated projectile, replaces the conventional barrel and is secured to the magazine of a compressed gas fired pistol. The bore includes a lateral port communicating with a charge of gas under pressure. The elongated projectile is closed at its forward end and includes an axial socket open at its other end. A tubular bolt is slidably received in the bore of the fishing rod and the axial socket of the projectile. The bolt is closed at its rearward end but includes a lateral port communicating with the lateral port in the bore and with the axial socket of the projectile, whereby the bolt transfers the charge of gas to the projectile for firing thereof. A monofilament line, wound on a spin-cast reel supported by the fishing rod, has its free end attached to the projectile for retrieving the projectile after being fired at a target.

Abstract: A spring gun with a dispensing device and a cutter-stripper device, enables electricians to string wires through large unobstructed access, such as the space above suspended ceilings. The gun projects a dart, which carried the end of a drag line or fine wire to the desired location. If a drag line is used the cutter-stripper device is operated to cut the line so that a wire can be affixed thereto, to be pulled through the space. If a fine wire is shot through the space after the wire is in place, the cutter-stripper device is operated to prepare the wire end for its final installation.

Abstract: A portable device usable with a fishing rod for selectively projecting or casting a fish lure outwardly to desired areas by means of stretching or retracting a flexible elastic or stretchable line or a stretchable spring, which is mounted on and connected to a fishing rod or pole, and which has a movable, slidable carrier or open ended slidably mounted container, which is connected to an end part of the elastic or spring, and which is adapted to be pulled back or stretched, and then released to cause the carrier or receptacle to snap forward to thereby project a lure from within the receptacle into areas in which the user desires the lure to fall.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an archery bow fishing reel and mount and particularly to a generally loop shaped or ring shaped mount in which a fishing reel is mounted and which is disposed to dispense line forwardly through a generally loop shaped line guide structure which is surrounded by a buoyant line holding spool; the frame also having a guide adapted to guide line extending from the open forward end of the spool backward to an attachment with an arrow and in shooting position relative to the bow on which the reel supporting frame is mounted; the reel supporting frame adapted to support various types of reels and used for dispensing directly from such a reel through the line guide and through a bore in the aforementioned spool such that line may be dispensed directly in a forward direction from a spinning reel or the like held by said frame and through said spool or whereby the line may be first dispensed from the reel and then wound around the spool preliminary to shooting an arrow with line attached ther

Abstract: An attachment for fishing rods for the slingshot casting of the fishing line. The attachment is clamped to the fishing rod and extends forwardly with pivoted spring arms. When these are swung back to vertical position they become fixed; and the elastic sling extends rearwardly from the same. The arms are also swingable downwardly to lock as props for supporting the fishing rod on the ground or on the deck of a boat.

Abstract: A target fishing rod including a grip assembly having means for securing a fishing reel thereto. A triggered float is propelled from the rod to cast the hook into a general target area. This may be used in any restricted area where conventional casting is not feasible.An alternate rod comprising a plurality of telescopically united sections is removably held in said grip assembly and cast in the conventional manner.

Abstract: A fishing reel accessory for a fishing reel mounted on a fishing pole at the handle thereof and having fishing line wound therearound comprises a brake member mounted on the pole adjacent the handle and the reel for selectively manually preventing unwinding of the reel.

Abstract: A device for removably attaching various types of commercial fishing spinning reels to conventional archery bows for use in any sport or activity where a retrievable arrow must be used connected to a line, one end of which is attached to the arrow and the other end to a reel on the bow. Both the reel and the bow may be later easily separated and used for their original purpose, but while assembled as a unit, form a system of proved economy and efficiency, for instance, in fishing with the bow either under or above salt or fresh water. The adapter device of the present invention includes three parts: (a), a first, vertical mounting bracket for attaching the device to the bow; (b) an intermediate, horizontal, transverse section; and (c) a second, horizontal mounting bracket upon which is mounted the standard fishing spinning reel through its standard foot mount.