Tagging and culling system for fishing
AssigneeDaniel Paul WILDER
InventorsDaniel Paul WILDER, Gary Wayne DOBYNS
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Abstract
Systems and methods for tagging, culling, or tagging and culling fish include various elements. For example, the systems and methods may be implemented on a scale for weighing fish and may maintain a pre-determined color order to suggest a next-up color for a cull tag. In addition, the pre-determined color order may be dynamically updated in real time to account for overrides by an angler or releasing of an already caught fish. In an additional aspect, a global positioning system (GPS) sensor can be used to capture position information associated with the catch and used to pull other relevant information.
Claims7
A system for weighing a fish and indicating a color of a cull tag to be assigned to the fish, the system comprising:
- a scale housing;
- a fish retainer coupled with the scale housing and configured to retain the fish while a weight of the fish is determined;
- at least one of a strain gauge or a load cell that is coupled to the fish retainer and that is configured to determine the weight of the fish;
- a display screen integrated into the scale housing and configured to present information related to the fish;
- one or more processing units;
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- one or more memory devices storing instructions thereon that, when executed using the one or more processing units, cause the one or more processing units to execute operations comprising:
- storing a data value representing a fish-catch record;
- presenting, on the display screen, a visual indication of the color indicating a cull-tag color of the cull tag;
- determining, via the at least one of a strain gauge or a load cell, the weight of the fish;
- storing, in association with the fish-catch record, a data value representing the weight;
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- presenting, on the display screen, a visual indication of the weight in combination with the color.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.