Free floating fishhook setting device
OwnerVernon D. Grayinventor
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Abstract
A fishing line is wound around a rotatable spool member and one end of the line is extended downwardly through an aperture in a buoyant body supporting the spool member. A winding mechanism connected to the spool member and an axle journalling the spool member normally biases the fishing line extended end portion toward a wound up position. Mounting members support the spool member and winding mechanism in a recess on the body for minimizing wind resistance. A brake mechanism depending from the buoyant body retards wind blown movement. A fish bite on the line pivots a trip member for releasing a wound up condition of the spool member in a fishing line winding up action on the spool for reeling in a fish caught on the line.
Claims5
A float fishing apparatus, comprising:
- an upright buoyant body having an axial bore;
- a fishing line having one end portion extending through the bore;
- rotatable spool means having an axial flange at one end and having the other end portion of the flashing line wound on the spool means;
- mounting means supporting said spool means on the body;
- winding means connected with said mounting means and said spool means and biasing said spool means for winding said one end portion of the fishing line thereon;
- and,
- trip means normally preventing rotation of said spool means and releasable by a pull on said one end portion of the fishing line,
- said trip means including a lever pivotally supported intermediate its ends by said body and having an aperture in one of its end portions slidably receiving the fishing line said one end portion for pivoting the lever other end portion away from the periphery of said flange in response to the pull on the fishing line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.