Automatic fishing device
OwnerEdward Schnurinventor
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Abstract
An automatic fishhook setting device having a main body portion, fishing pole retention latch and a strike sensor arm. The fishing pole retention latch has an abutment surface and is pivotally attached to the main body portion. The strike sensor arm is pivotally attached to the main body portion and has an abutment surface and a fishing line holder. The abutment surface of strike sensor arm and the abutment surface of the fishing pole retention latch cooperate to prevent the fishing pole retention latch from pivoting in at least one direction when the strike sensor arm is located in a first position. The abutment surfaces do not cooperate to prevent rotation of the fishing pole retention latch when the strike sensor arm is in a second position.
Claims15
An automatic fish hook setting device comprising:
- a main body portion;
- a fishing pole retention latch having an abutment surface and being pivotally attached to the main body portion;
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- a strike sensor arm pivotally attached to the main body portion, having an abutment surface and comprising a fishing line holder, the abutment surface of strike sensor arm and the abutment surface of the fishing pole retention latch cooperating to prevent the fishing pole retention latch from pivoting in at least one direction when the strike sensor arm is located in a first position and the abutment surfaces not cooperating to prevent rotation of the fishing pole retention latch when the strike sensor arm is in a second position.
An automatic fish hook setting device comprising:
- a main body portion;
- a fishing pole retention latch having an abutment surface and a protuberance adapted to extend through the eyelet of a fishing pole to retain the fishing pole in a torqued position, the latch being pivotally attached to the main body portion;
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- a strike sensor arm pivotally attached to the main body portion, having an abutment surface and comprising a fishing line holder, the abutment surface of strike sensor arm and the abutment surface of the fishing pole retention latch cooperating to prevent the fishing pole retention latch from pivoting in at least one direction when the strike sensor arm is located in a first position and the abutment surfaces not cooperating to prevent rotation of the fishing pole retention latch when the strike sensor arm is in a second position.
A method of automatically setting a fishhook comprising:
- mounting a resilient fishing pole to a fixed point;
- attaching a retention line to a fixed point and body portion attached to a strike sensor arm;
- torquing the resilient fishing pole from its resting orientation;
- attaching an end of the fishing pole to a fishing pole attachment latch;
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- joining a fishing line of the fishing pole to the strike sensor arm such that when the fishing line becomes taut, the strike sensor arm causes the fishing pole attachment latch to allow the fishing pole to resiliently snap back to its resting orientation and pull the fishing line to set a hook within a fish's mouth.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.