Abstract: A fishing reel assembly designed for use either on a butt structure for securement directly to a fishing rod and including an elongated body having two holder elements mounted thereon for retaining engagement of a support plate of the fishing reel. One of the holder elements is slidably and rotatably movable along the length of the body and the other holder element is fixedly secured to a leading portion of the body and attached to the outer surface thereof in a manner which resists both rotational or longitudinal displacement through the provision of a positioning structure formed on the body.

Abstract: A fishing rod is provided which includes a rod body which has a tail end portion having a grip and a fishing reel fixture mounted thereon. A cylindrical bend-correcting member is provided at the outer periphery of the rod body in front of the reel fixture. The bend-correcting member is intergral with the rod body and forwardly shifts the position of the base of a bending portion of the rod body. The bend-correcting member is made such that it is easy to hold at its outer periphery by an angler.

Abstract: Fishing apparatus adapted for use with fishing accessories comprising a tackle box with an opening extending through an upper end and forming an inside wall. A first attachment means is disposed generally on a portion of the inside wall in the tackle box. The apparatus includes a container having outside walls generally surrounding a container opening with the container opening intersecting the upper end and being sized for receiving fishing accessories. A second attachment means includes a portion connected to the outside wall of the container. The second attachment means and the first attachment means each are adapted so that the second attachment means is removeably connectable to the first attachment means for removeably connecting the container to the inside of the tackle box.

Abstract: A line cutting apparatus includes a cutting tool and a mounting base separate from the tool. In the present embodiment, the mounting base is adapted for attachment to a fishing rod. The cutting tool and mounting base include interconnecting means for removably engaging the tool to the base. The cutting tool includes a tool housing that encloses a blade but defines limited access openings to expose portions of a blade cutting edge. Each opening is defined by a pair of lips projecting beyond the blade cutting edge and being spaced apart less than the length of the exposed edge. The tool housing also defines a receptacle for retaining a sharpening stone in alignment with the blade. The tool housing is shaped along its undersurface to provide a gap between the tool and mounting base. This gap enables the fishing rod and attached mounting base to flex without interference from the tool.

Abstract: A resilient luminous fishing rod clip having a generally U-shaped configuration including legs having confronting surfaces adapted to fit around and shape-matingly engage the outer surface of a circular end ring of a fishing rod. The clip has a circular midportion that occupies more than half a circle and that terminates in outwardly concave reverse bends which in turn terminate in outwardly convex reverse bends that are adapted shape-matingly to embrace such an end ring. Those further reverse bends terminate in further outwardly concave reverse bends that in turn terminate in free ends of the legs. The clip has a generally C-shaped cross section with concave surfaces of said C-shaped cross section adapted shape-matingly to contact such an end ring.

Abstract: A fishing line lure activator device adapted to fit a fishing rod having a battey driven motor which drives an eccentric wheel and a guide wheel in alignment with the eccentric wheel over which wheels a fishing line is looped to impart a swimming action to the lure in the water.

Abstract: An improved fishing mitt comprised of a main body and a double cuff is disclosed. The main body includes eight separate layers for warmth. The main body also has two adjoining break-apart edges so that the mitt can be peeled back over the forearm to expose the hand when landing a fish.

Abstract: A water temperature measuring device includes a temperature sensor which is located adjacent one end of an elongated member such as a hiking/wading staff or a fishing rod. A temperature readout device is located in the vicinity of the other end of the elongated member. The output of the temperature sensor is electrically coupled to the temperature readout device which is powered by an electric storage battery or a solar power supply contained in a handle of the hiking/wading staff or fishig rod. In another embodiment, the temperature readout device is located in a fishing reel which is mounted on the handle of the fishing rod. Mounting of the reel on the rod causes the making of electrical contact between the readout device and the temperature sensor and power source.

Abstract: A portable fishing line spool holder device is provided which mounts on all forms of fishing poles and feeds all forms of fishing reels, including spinning and casting reels. The spool holder avoids common problems of improper line tension and kinking of the line during transfer.

Abstract: Apparatus for applying a fish attracting fluid to fishing tackle is disclosed. The apparatus includes a box having an upper portion with an opening including an upper segment of resilient, absorbent material attached therein. The box has a lower portion with an opening including a lower segment of resilient absorbent material attached therein. The segments are of such thickness as to contact one another when the box is closed. The box is also provided with an offset hinge pin for the proper positioning of the box portions during opening and closing. The segments are provided with a fish attracting fluid so that when the box is closed with fishing tackle therein, the fishing tackle will be coated with the fluid. Also disclosed is the method of coating fishing tackle with fish attracting fluid as through the use of such box.

Abstract: A marking buoy includes a housing mounted on an article such as a fishing rod, a buoy wedged in the housing by a water-soluble material to prevent removal of the buoy through the open end of the housing until the buoy has been immersed in the water for a predetermined period of time.

Abstract: A fishing pole having a tubular rod with a handgrip attached to its rearward end. A pump assembly is mounted in said handgrip and its inlet port is connected to a container formed within the handgrip that is filled with liquid fish scent. The output end of the pump assembly is connected to an output tube that passes through the interior of the tubular rod and which ends adjacent the forward end of the tubular rod. By actuating a trigger finger connected to the pump assembly, the liquid fish scent is pumped through the output tube and exits from its forward end in droplets of fluid that drip down onto a fishing line running through an eyelet tip that is positioned at the end of the tubular rod. The liquid fish scent in its droplet form will travel down the downwardly extending fishing line and apply itself to the hook and the bait which is attached thereto. Periodically while fishing, the fisherman can actuate the trigger finger a few times prior to casting to rewet the hook and bait.

Abstract: A universally adaptable fastening device for fastening fishing poles to railings, which has a quick release function is provided by an elasticized band of about one foot long having a Velcro fastening mechanism to secure the two ends together. This band is fastened to the railing. A band of non-stretchable material having a Velcro fastening mechanism to secure the two ends together is permanently attached crosswise to the elasticized band, closer to one end thereof. This band is fastened to the fishing pole.

Abstract: A method of assembling a fishing rod including a rod member, a conic enlargement on the rod member, and a foregrip having a generally conic inner circumferential surface and an outer circumferential surface with a part thereof being eccentric with respect to the conic inner circumferential surface. In practicing this method, the conic inner circumferential surface of the foregrip is wedged into engagement with the conic enlargement on the rod member, and the eccentric part of the outer circumferential surface of the foregrip is arranged in a preselected angular position therefor extending generally circumferentially outwardly from the rod member.Other methods of assembling a fishing rod and other fishing rods are also disclosed.

Abstract: A fish detector for use with a rod and reel detects the movement of the line by deflection of a flexible member which engages the line near the reel and holds it outwardly from the rod. The flexible member is more flexible than the rod tip and may be coated with visibility enhancing material such as plastic.

Abstract: A fishing reel line refill tool for use with a fishing pole having a reel thereon, and a fishing reel line refill spool, includes a first member having a first and second section, each section being pivotally joined together at one end and having a latching means on the opposite end. The first and second sections form a first closed position wherein the sections abut to form a plurality of holes therethrough of varying diameter size, each of the holes adapted to receive therethrough in a tight friction fit a portion of the extending rod section of the fishing pole, and a second open position wherein the sections are pivotally rotated in opposite directions from their abutting relation of the first closed position. A second member is threadably mated with the first member and extends therefrom. The second member is adapted to receive thereon the refill spool in a rotatable relationship therewith.

Abstract: A multipurpose fishing line aid apparatus comprising a tubular means having a longitudinal opening along one side that reversibly snaps on and off of a fishing pole and a pair of substantially flat coplanar superimposed surfaces with a notch and razor blade cutting edge sandwiched therebetween attached to the opposite side relative to the longitudinal opening of the tubular means. The pair of surfaces can be further equipped with at least one extension located in the region of attachment to the tubular means and colinear to the longitudinal opening and extending beyond the tubular means as well as at least one circular recess for positioning an eyelet to assist threading a fishing line through the eyelet.

Abstract: A fishing mitt for covering a user's hand and a portion of the fishing rod mounted on the fishing rod is disclosed, wherein the fishing mitt fastens around the wrist or forearm of the user. The rod protrudes from the front of the mitt, and an aperture is provided through which line passes from the fishing reel to the rod guides. The aperture is maintained in relatively fixed positions with respect to the fishing rod, in order to minimize the frictional resistance imparted by the aperture to line passing therethrough during casting or line retrieval operations. The reel handles protrude through the side of the mitt, and can be operated by the hand of the user opposite from the hand inside of the mitt.

Abstract: A line cutter is disclosed made up of an integrally molded plastic part having a bottom flange adapted to rest on a fishing rod or the like and an upwardly extending vertical plate-like flange having recesses. The recesses communicate with a razor blade which is integrally molded into the plastic body. The line cutter can be supported on a fishing rod or the like by a Velcro support or other suitable support. A fisherman can cut his line by holding a piece of line in two hands and engaging the exposed pieces of razor blade in the recesses.

Abstract: A spool for a supply of fishing line is disclosed which serves too minimize the amount of twist imparted to the line as it is withdrawn from the spool onto a fishing reel. A cylindrical portion, about which the fishing line is wound on the spool, has radial flanges having different shapes so as to permit withdrawal of the line over only one flange periphery. The line may be effectively withdrawn from the spool only over the circular flange, but not over the opposite flange, which has a non-circular shape. Any twist imparted to the fishing line during its withdrawal is substantially compensated by the winding of the line about the fishing reel.

Abstract: A tubular staff flagged at an end, composed of a fluorescent polyvinyl plastic, placed on the distal end of a fishing rod tip for the purpose of signaling a fish strike and aiding in the identification of the fishing rod tip from the surrounding background especially under dusky light conditions.

Abstract: A combined fishing rod and fishing line vibrator includes a housing of plastic material defined by a pair of body halves maintained in tubular alignment by interengaged pins and bores to form a tubular body having axially opposite first and second ends closed by first and second caps. A radial shoulder in the first cap defines an eccentric-receiving chamber housing a weight carried eccentrically by a shaft of an electric motor housed between the first radial shoulder and a second radial shoulder defining an electric motor-receiving chamber adjacent batteries within a battery chamber, the second cap having electrical connection means for energizing the electric motor, and a fishing line loop carried by the tubular body whereby when the vibrator is connected to a fishing rod, the latter is vibrated directly through vibrations caused by the eccentric weight and the fishing line is vibrated through the fishing line loop.

Abstract: A strip made of resiliently yieldable material is attached to the handle of a fishing rod and is formed with at least one finger hole enabling the fisherman to maintain a secure hold on the handle. In one embodiment, a portion of the strip is wrapped partially around the handle and is formed with two holes which tightly grip the handle. In another embodiment, the strip is a band which is cinched around the handle and which is formed with a downwardly projecting portion having a finger hole.

Abstract: A fishing device for manually controlling a fishing line that utilizes the pulling force of a hooked fish to proportionally oppose that very same force without requiring an appreciable effort on the part of the user. A finger grip assembly is hingedly mounted to a line guiding assembly and the fishing line is passed between them. The fishing line is guided from one end to the other of the guiding assembly and passed through a passageway that diverts the pulling force to help sandwich the fishing line thereby frictionally opposing the pulling force of the hooked fish. Brake plates are mounted on the inner opposing walls to provide the frictionally opposing force indirectly.

Abstract: A fishing rod having a handle including a pistol grip located rearwardly from and beneath a reel seat for holding a casting reel, and having a butt extension member supported rearwardly and spaced upwardly apart from the reel seat. A butt extension support limb is curved rearwardly and laterally away from the reel seat to support the forward end of the butt extension member without interfering with the fisherman's wrist and forearm during casting of bait or playing a hooked fish using the rod.

Abstract: A fishing line handler typically used in conjunction with a conventional fishing rod characterized by a base supported cutter blade mechanism and one or more retainer or clamping members for selective fishing line engagement and retention. The instant handler serves both clamping, cutting and trimming purposes and frees the fisherman's hands for lure selection while, at the same time, containing the fishing line at a readily accessible location. The handler is arranged so that the cutter mechanism is normally urged into a non-cutting condition, i.e. a cutting blade thereof must be moved against the force of a spring to achieve fishing line cutting or trimming.

Abstract: A finger protector for the hand grip area of a reel, primarily of the spinning variety. In ordinary usage, a spinning reel is attached to the underside of a bait casting fishing rod by a coupling sleeve for and aft of the saddle of the reel attachment member, and a locking nut binding the sleeves and saddle together, and holding the reel in place on the underside of the rod. The rod and reel are then used for casting in the usual manner, except that the reel attachment arm, which is usually a hard surface rigid metal T shaped structure, is now contoured and cushioned to provide a more efficient and substantially more comfortable hand grip area.

Abstract: Float release devices which are releasible from submerged articles in order to mark the location of the articles, which devices include in a first embodiment, a double pressure-actuated float attached to a bracket by means of a pair of pressure-actuated release mechanisms for releasing the float when the float and bracket are submerged. Straps attached to the bracket serve to secure the float to a non-floating article and a plug in the release mechanism facilitates equalization of pressure in the release mechanism housing. In another embodiment of the invention a single pressure-actuated release mechanism is provided in cooperation with a float and bracket, which bracket is located on the exterior of the article to be protected, such as a fishing rod. In an alternative design for protecting a fishing rod, the pressure-release mechanism is located in the fishing rod handle for release when the fishing rod falls overboard.

Abstract: A rod flotation device which is designed to locate a non-floating fishing rod, which rod flotation device is characterized by a shaped float provided with a centrally located neck having line wound thereon and one end of the line attached thereto, and a shaped bracket cooperating with the float and secured to the rod, with the opposite end of the line secured to the bracket. A water soluble pin and a plunger with a blade biased against the pin cooperate to retain one end of the float in the bracket, while the opposite end of the float is seated in a shaped ring retainer also attached to the bracket. When the pin softens due to the action of the water and is severed by the blade, the float is released from the bracket and floats to the surface as the line unwinds to provide a means for locating and retrieving the rod.

Abstract: A holding apparatus for attachment to the handle of a fishing rod and reel combination, with the apparatus being juxtaposed with respect to the reel. The holding apparatus has a pair of spaced apart side walls and a pair of spaced apart end rods extending transverse to the side walls with one end of each rod being secured to one side wall and passing freely through the other side wall. A clamp is rigidly secured to each rod outboard of said other side wall and is adjustably tightened against the handle of the rod. Compression springs extend between the side walls for holding the side walls apart. Resilient pads are mounted on the facing surfaces of the spaced side walls with an exposed edge of one pad abutting the exposed edge of the other pad to define a parting line slot therebetween. Adjusting screws extend between the side walls for adjusting the distance between the side walls for preloading the spring means and the pads with a predetermined compressive load.

Abstract: This invention relates to the art of fishing rods having open-faced spinning reels and especially to a thumb-operated touch rod for mounting on the top of the rod handle to be in cooperation with only special spinning reels which are furnished with an automatic bail release, sometimes known as a "Touch Bail". These special spinning reels were designed with an automatic bail release mechanism whereby the fishing line holding and release thereof is attained through manipulation of the line pickup bail by the user's index finger. A large proportion of anglers are more adept in the use of their thumbs in operating various maneuvers during fishing than in the use of their index fingers because some anglers have short fingers and have difficulty in grasping the rod handle and simultaneously manipulating the line pickup bail. This invention comprises a thumb-operated touch rod which is clamped to the rod handle above the spinning reel.

Abstract: A fishing line system is provided for attachment onto a fishing rod having a mounting member with front and rear carriers thereon. A plurality of line guide wheels are mounted in each of the front and rear carriers. Line from the conventional reel on the rod passes around the line guide wheels on its way to the tip of the rod. Inertial energy of the rotating guide wheels with the line tends to smooth out line velocity, and line stretch over the longer length of line tends to reduce peaks in line tension.

Abstract: A thumb-operated fishing line choke accessory that may be installed to an existing fishing rod for choking the line when preparing to cast, as well as for choking the line after the cast has been made in order to accurately pinpoint the drop of the lure being cast. The device has a clamping member that is adapted to be fastened to the front end of the rod handle, a thumb-engaging actuator member that is pivotally connected to the clamping member, and a movable collar that is carried by the rod and acted upon by the actuator and serves as an anchor for one end of a pair of parallel wire members that are supported along the length of the rod. There is a combined fishing line ring guide and choke member mounted intermediate the length of the rod, and it has an inclined guide frame supporting a smooth ring guide through which the fishing line extends, as well as a movable choke member that is attached to the other end of the pair of wire members.

Abstract: A stabilizer structure for preventing undesirable rotation of a fishing pole while a fish is being cranked in, such stabilizer structure being comprised of a leather strap which is attached to the handle section of a fishing pole forwardly of where the reel is attached, on one side of such fishing pole handle section, depending upon whether the person using the rod and reel assembly is right or left handed. Such strap permits the person using the fishing rod and reel assembly to put one hand through such strap whereby the hand is disposed between the strap and the handle section and whereby the other hand is used to crank in the line and the fish while the first mentioned hand prevents rotation of the fishing pole.

Abstract: The applicator is provided in the form of a hinged box-like shell of somewhat flexible inert plastic material having opposite end walls which are slotted in an off-center manner. The body and lid of the shell each removably receive applicator pads, e.g. of absorbent material such as wool felt on which the user may apply a fishing line dressing composition. In use, the applicator is closed about a fishing line so that the line is in contact with both body and lid pads, and the segment of the line that is to be dressed is moved longitudinally relative to the applicator as compressive finger pressure on the opposite face walls of the shell is used for modulating squeezing of the line. The non-hinged sidewall of either the body or the lid is provided with a catch-equipped flange which overlaps the comparable wall of the other of the lid or the body. And the two end walls of the other of the lid and the body, are provided with slotted flanges which overlap the comparable walls of the body or the lid.

Abstract: A removable hand grip for use on a fishing rod handle of the type having two axial shiftable rings for mounting a spinning or similar fishing reel having a T-shaped mounting bracket. The hand grip has a generally U-shaped cross-section and a tapering upper surface along the longitudinal axis thereof with a transverse convex exterior surface. In the preferred embodiment, the hand grip is removably secured to the fishing rod handle on the reel mounting portion of the handle opposite the reel mounting bracket. Alternatively, the hand grip may be formed integrally with the fishing rod handle.

Abstract: A spin-casting rod and reel assembly that has a rod with a top guide pivotally mounted between the rod butt guide and the handgrip on the main rod to impart intermittent motion or "jerking" to the line and lure during line pay-in. The jerk-rod is spring biased to an inactive position parallel to and closely adjacent to the main rod with its top guide adjacent the main rod's butt guide, and is moveable to an active position by the fisherman's manual hand manipulation with the jerk-rod top guide spaced considerably from the butt guide to accelerate line and lure pay-in intermittently.

Abstract: Length of a line or, more particularly, depth of a fishing line is digitally indicated by a fishing depth gauge when a clip mounting bracket carries thereon a digital counter activated by cooperation between a fishing line paid out from a rod and a counter activating pulley serving to activate the digital counter. The digital counter is mounted at one end of the clip mounting bracket with a trifurcated rod mounting bracket at the other end of the clip mounting bracket, thereby completing the fishing line depth indicator.

Abstract: A device mountable upon a tip of a fishing rod for indicating to a fisherman when a fish is nibbling at a baited hook; the device including a case snap-fitted to the rod and containing a dry cell battery and switch in circuit with a lamp for shining in the dark.

Abstract: An accessory mountable on a fishing rod, rifle or the like, for aiding to retrieve the same, if dropped into deep water; the device including, generally, a canister containing a line wound up around a spool, one end of the line attached to the spool, and the other end of the line being attached to an exterior float, adhered by a water-soluble adhesive to the canister, and a bracket, or other means, for securing the canister to the sportsman's equipment.

Abstract: A set of travelling line guiding members are moved relative to stationary line guiding members with the two sets of line guiding members containing separate individual wraps or partial loops of line. By moving the guiding members relatively toward and away from one another the line can be quickly released when letting out line or retrieved for retracting a line. Wrap retaining devices are provided for releasably holding the wraps of line when in the retracted position after the movable line guiding members are moved from the retracted position toward the fixed line guiding members.

Abstract: A rod holder device useful in combination with a plural section fishing rod for holding at least one of the rod sections in substantially parallel relation to the main body of the fishing rod. The device is primarily useful for storing and transporting a plural section fishing rod in its taken apart condition, and is preferably integrally mounted on the fishing rod handle. The rod holder device comprises a receiver body movably attached to the fishing rod as by a pivot pin, and the receiver body is movable between first and second positions defining a closed and opened condition, respectively. A receiver aperture is formed in the receiver body and is operatively disposed when the device is in its second position. The receiver aperture is dimensioned and configured to receive, preferably, the male end of a rod section therein.

Abstract: Disclosed is a protector for guides of a telescopic rod comprises a resilient cylindrical member with its one end being closed, a hook member provided at its closed end and an opening notched longitudinally along the cylindrical member. The hook member so designed to serves as a hanger of telescopic fishing rods for display and to serve as a shock absorber during transportation.

Abstract: Means for cleaning and waxing fishing line includes a container having a general longitudinally slot in the periphery thereof and a porous applicator mass, impregnated with cleaning and waxing compound. Line is run through the slot, in contact with the applicator to effect said cleaning and waxing. Means rotatably adjust said applicator to present a fresh applicator surfact the slot opening.

Abstract: A set of traveling sheaves is moved relative to stationary sheaves with the sheaves containing wraps of fishing line from between a spool or source of the line and the hook or terminous of the line. By moving the movable sheaves relative to the stationary sheaves, the line can be quickly retrieved or quickly released when letting out line.

Abstract: A forearm rest for assisting an angler in holding a spinning type of fishing rod and for allowing the angler to freely cast without hinderance. The forearm rest includes a long narrow arcuate portion extending outwardly from the handle for accommodating the forearm of the angler and includes a handle attaching portion for secure connection to a desired position along the handle of the fishing rod.

Abstract: A device adapted for mounting on a fishing rod for tensioning fishing line as the line is being wound onto the reel. The tensioning device comprises a body having a peripheral recess, a fastener for securing the body to a fishing rod, and a resilient wire which is carried by the body and has portions thereof extending within the peripheral recess so that fishing line positioned between the resilient wire and the body is snubbed as it is wound onto the reel.

Abstract: An innovative device for the locating and recovery of submerged articles. This device consists of a plastic container and a buoy that is automatically released after being submerged in water. A stout line attached to the buoy and the module container which in turn is securely attached to the article for purpose of recovery. The module is designed to equalize submerged water pressures. This device is primarily, but restricted to recovery of submerged articles weighing under 20 pounds and in water in depths of up to 50 feet.

Abstract: Fishing rod attachment, through which fishing line is passed, responsive to the tension in line developed by the pull of a fish caught on the line, which attachment includes an indicating light that is turned on when the line is under tension. The reverse motion of reeling the line back is not impeded by the attachment.

Abstract: An automatic line release mechanism is attached to a hollow handle of a spinning rod within which handle the rod is free to flex. The line release includes a pivotally mounted trigger which holds the line between the reel and the first line guide prior to making a cast. The trigger is automatically moved to a line releasing position by tension in the line and bending of the rod during casting. A cam locking means is released by a sliding bar member connected by a resilient wire to the rod within the hollow handle. The effective length of the wire is changed in response to flexure of the rod to unlock the trigger at the proper time in the cast.