Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing – Illuminated – e.g. – luminous
Patent
1996-11-27
1999-01-26
Rowan, Kurt
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
Illuminated, e.g., luminous
A01K 9712
Patent
active
058626212
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a fishing rod, advantageously a spinning rod or similar having guide rings for a line and incorporating an indicator device for detecting a strike by a fish, said indicator device comprising a signalling means for issuing a signal when the fishing rod is flexed by more than a preset amount, a mechanism capable of reacting to the flexing of the fishing rod, said mechanism incorporating a spring-loaded trigger wire or similar element, and an adjustment mechanism for presetting the indicator sensitivity, whereby the signalling means and the adjustment mechanism are designed into a self-contained integrated entity suited for detachable mounting to the butt section of the fishing rod. While said fishing rod is particularly well suited for casting a lure from a boat or similar vessel, its use is not limited to this application. This kind of fishing rod may also be used in ice/bridge fishing. The rod gives the fisherman an indication signal at a strike by the fish. By virtue of the novel facility, the fisherman can counter the strike by jerking the line during the initial part of the strike. By performing the counterjerk immediately at the instant of a fish strike (in practice, by a strong tug on the rod thus tensioning the line), the hooks of the lure can be made to penetrate on the mouth of the fish. This action has the result that the fish caught by the hook tip can be secured fully hooked by the hook barbs. Then, the hook(s) is/are penetrated so deep as to permit the barb to inhibit the detachment of the hook(s) from the fish jaws.
In the art is known from U.S. Pat. No. 4,458,438 a fishing rod incorporating a fish strike indicator constructed into the rod. This construction requires a special-design rod thus incurring a high cost. A portion of the components of the indicator device are integrated in the fishing rod handle, another portion in the butt section of the rod and still another portion located in the tip section of the rod, partially outside the rod. Such a device comprising a number of subassemblies is expensive to manufacture, sensitive to disturbance and clumsy to service. The rod tip section is provided with an adjustment mechanism for presetting the indication sensitivity. The need for indication sensitivity adjustment arises from, e.g., the use of different kinds of lures. Owing to the location of the adjustment mechanism in the rod tip and thus far removed from the user, the adjustment operation is in practice difficult to perform. Further, the ratchet-and-pawl mechanism of the adjustment mechanism forms a projection at the rod tip thus posing a fouling risk of the line with the ratchet of the mechanism.
The U.S. Pat. No. 4,051,616 discloses a fishing rod incorporating an indicator device. The indicator device comprises a strain gage, whose output signal is arranged to control the signalling means of the indicator device. The strain gage is located on the surface of the rod as a delicate component thus being vulnerable to damage.
It is an object of the present invention to offer an uncomplicated fishing rod-indicator device combination capable of overcoming the above-described drawbacks. The goal of the invention is achieved by an indicator device characterized in that the trigger wire is adapted to pass via the line guide rings so that it passes either through all or only some of the guide rings. The preferred embodiments of the fishing rod according to the invention are described in the specification.
The invention is based on the concept of utilizing the trigger wire taken through the line guide rings so that at the flexing of the fishing rod, the distance of the trigger wire from its fixing point near the tip of the rod to the indicator device is shortened with the flexing of the rod, whereby the trigger wire end adhering to the indicator device is displaced due to the spring-loaded fixing of the wire end, whereby said wire end displacement triggers the signalling means of the indicator device.
The major benefits of the indicator device according to the inv
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