Fishing device with hook keeping features

A hook keeper for fishing comprising:

• a main body having a nose end and a tail end spaced from each other by a middle section, said main body further comprising a base extending axially in an end-to-end direction between said nose end and said tail end and having one or more connector formations, which are engagable with a fishing rod to removably store said hook keeper on the fishing rod for temporary storage of fishing tackle, wherein said hook keeper is configured for mounting to said fishing rod with said nose end oriented toward a rod tip and said tail end oriented toward a rod handle;
• said main body having a hollow keeper interior which opens sidewardly in a side-t-side direction through said hook keeper;
• said nose end comprising an upright nose end wall projecting upwardly from said base and forming a front line guard having an outer guard face and an interior guard face, said interior guard face defining a first end of said hollow keeper interior, wherein a fishing hook may be hooked sidewardly over said interior guard face and held axially against said interior guard face when under tension from a fishing line for storage of said fishing hook on said front line guard;
• said tail end comprising an upright tail end wall projecting upwardly from said base and having an axial thickness defined by an interior tail end wall face defining a second end of said hollow keeper interior and an outer tail end wall face that faces away from said nose end;
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• a lever arm formed along an upper top area of said hollow keeper interior, which is joined to said tail end wall so as to project axially forwardly to said front line guard with a front arm end removably contacting said front line guard at a joint therebetween, said lever arm being resiliently deformable to allow downward separation of and formation of a gap at an interface between said front arm end and said front line guard to allow a hook or fishing line to be inserted through said gap into said hollow keeper interior, said lever arm including an inner lever arm face that aligns flush with said interior guard face at said interface which thereby prevents a fishing line from accidentally sliding into the keeper through said joint.

A hook keeper for fishing comprising:

• a main body having a nose end and a tail end spaced from each other by a middle section, said main body further comprising a base extending axially in an end-to-end direction between said nose end and said tail end and having one or more connector formations, which are engagable with a fishing rod to removably store said hook keeper on the fishing rod for temporary storage of fishing tackle, wherein said hook keeper is configured for mounting to said fishing rod with said nose end oriented toward a rod tip and said tail end oriented toward a rod handle;
• said main body having a hollow keeper interior which opens sidewardly in a side-to-side direction through said hook keeper;
• said nose end comprising an upright end wall projecting upwardly from said base and forming a front line guard having an outer guard face and an interior guard face, said interior guard face defining a first end of said hollow keeper interior, wherein a fishing hook may be hooked sidewardly over said interior guard face and held axially against said interior guard face when under tension from a fishing line for storage of said fishing hook on said front line guard;
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• said tail end comprising an upright end wall projecting upwardly from said base and having an interior end wall face defining a second end of said hollow keeper interior and having an outer end wall face that faces away from said nose end, said tail end wall at said tail end having an attachment aperture provided as a storage location for said hook;
• said connector formations comprising at least two pairs of connector blocks that are respectively located proximate said nose and tail ends and project sidewardly from said base to engage opposite ends of an attachment band, wherein said attachment band is removably engagable with the fishing rod to secure said hook keeper on the fishing rod, said attachment band having an endless shape forming resiliently deformable loop which loops over each of said connector formations and is wrappable about a periphery of said fishing rod, said attachment band having intermediate band portions extending under said middle section of said base axially between said pairs of connector formations so as to be compressed between an underside of said base and said fishing rod when mounted thereto.