Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing – Line-attached bodies – hooks and rigs
Patent
1993-10-01
1994-08-23
Bradley, P. Austin
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
Line-attached bodies, hooks and rigs
A01K 9100
Patent
active
053395611
ABSTRACT:
A diving sinker has a fin on the top surface of a planing member and a chamber on the bottom of the member. The chamber increases the volume of the diver and, hence, its buoyancy. The chamber is rotatable about the axis of a screw that holds it to the bottom of the planing member so as to move a weighted section in the chamber to gain directional control over the diver as it is being towed through the water from the trolling boat. Space in the chamber that is not occupied by the lead weights is occupied by a rigid foam synthetic resin. The trolling line is fed through the eye at the end of a latching arm and through a slot between two flat surfaces, one of which is movable relative to the other to provide a space or slot between them into which the fishing line may be wedged to secure the diver against sliding on the line. When a fish strikes a lure on the line, the tugging force on the diver raises tension in the line leading to the reel on the boat to thereby unlatch the latch arm and allow the line to withdraw from the slot wherein it is wedged. The line passes through guide holes on the top surface of the planing member which support and allow the diver to slide on the line when the latch arm becomes unlatched and the line withdraws from the slot in which it is wedged to prevent the diver from sliding on the line.
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Bradley P. Austin
Mah Chuck Y.
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