Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing – Line-attached bodies – hooks and rigs
Patent
1987-05-18
1988-06-14
Rowan, Kurt
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
Line-attached bodies, hooks and rigs
43 4312, 43 4488, 43 4491, A01K 8300, A01K 9100
Patent
active
047502886
ABSTRACT:
A line carrier weight for use with a downrigger fishing apparatus for carrying a fishing line down the downrigger cable to a designed fishing depth above the downrigger ball. The carrier weight comprises a generally cylindrical body having an axial bore of a predetermined diameter greater than the diameter of the downrigger cable with which the carrier weight is to be used. Formed inwardly in the opposed bases of the cylindrical body are inwardly sloping, internally directed radial grooves leading to the axial bore, the radial grooves being in alignment with one another along radii which are 180.degree. apart. A radial slit is cut through the cylindrical wall of the body and it leads to the axial bore. The width of this slit is only slightly greater than the diameter of the downrigger cable. An integrally formed arm aligned with said radial grooves projects outwardly from the cylindrical body near one of the bases and secured to the end of that arm is an eye to which a fishing line release device may be attached. Once the downrigger cable and ball are lowered into the water to a desired trolling depth and the carrier weight is fitted onto the cable by slipping the cable through the radial slit, it is free to fall down the cable passing through the axial bore of the weight until the fisherman puts tension on his fishing line. This latter action lifts up on the arm and cants the carrier weight so that its axial bore is no longer aligned with the cable. This effectively latches the carrier weight to the cable and prevents it from being pulled up or falling any deeper until such time as the fishing line tension may be released.
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Haugen Orrin M.
Niebuhr Frederick W.
Nikolai Thomas J.
Rowan Kurt
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