GB2329818A - Fish pole retrieval system - Google Patents

Abstract

The retriever consists of a round or egg shaped flat piece of sinkable material with a section removed the same shape. A V cut is made on the inside of the rim. A slit no thicker than a 15lbs fishing line is made from the apex of the V cut towards the rim. A stainless steel blade is fitted across the slit. Directly opposite the V cut is placed a hole with a ring through it. Attached to the ring is a length of cord. An angler whose hook is snagged slides the retriever down his pole. It drops off the end, over the float and sinks down to the hook. By pulling the cord the line near the hook will slide around the inside of the retriever, enter the V cut and then the slit and be cut by the blade.

Description

FISHING POLE RIG REIRIEVAL SYSTEM Technical Feild This invention relates to a fishing pole rig retrieval system.

Background In coanse fishing, one of the most popular means of fishing is by the use of what is comonly known as a pole. The pole consists of hollow round sections of a carbon material (the earlier models were made of fibre glass). Each section is joned to it's adjacent section by either pushing one end either into or over the adjacent section. The butt section being the largest diameter sectio and the top section of the pole being the smallest diameter section. Each section tapers so when fitted together, the butt section held by the angler has the largest diameter whereas the further most section at the top of the pole has the smallest diameter.

Poles can vary from a few metres in length to 16 metres or more and can consist of a few sections or 12 or more.As previously mentioned the sections of the pole were hollow and at the end of the top section will be an open round hold which is the end of the hollow top section. Into or around this hole is fixed a bush which allows a length of elastic to pass.

This length of elastic is attached to a cone shaped bung which is placed inside one of the top sections of the pole. The elastic runs up inside the pole until it comes out through the bole at the top part of the top section. Here it is attached to a line connector commonly called a stonflo. The elastic is tensioned and tied to one end of the stonflo so that the stonflo butts against the bush covering the top sectio of the pole.

When the elastic is stretched by pushing the stonflo away from the pole on release it should return to the same position i.e. butting against the top sectio bush. On the other end of the stonflo is a small slit which has a sliding plastic cover. A loop of nylon line is placed into this slit and the cover slid over the slit to prevent the loop of line coming out of the slit.

From this loop of line runs a length of line upon which the normal anglers rig of float, weights and hook are attached. Please note that the bottom section of line near the hook may be of a lower breaking strain than the line above it in order, that, should the line break when the hook is caught or a large fish is being played, should the line snap it will break below the float thus saving the anglers float.

The section of line running from the stonflo to the hook and the float and attached is known as the pole rig.

Please note that there is another system of fishing with the pole known as the flick tip system. It is basically the same as the elasticated system but the top section f the pole is of solid construction and the line connector is glued to the end of the pole, the line and rig being connected in a similar fashion.

There are a number of possible dangers with the elasticated system should the angler find himelf or herself snagged beneath the water with the hook caught on an obstruction.

Tb try and free the obstruction the angler may try to pull the pole frcm side to side or vertically stretching out the elastic and bending the tip of the pole. Should he or she this this and bend the top of the pole over too much there is the possibility that one of the top sections will break. Poles can coat up to ~10,000 to buy and a broken section could coat the angler anything fran 20 to hundreds of pounds to replace. Should the pole stay intact and the line break the elastic will fly back with the rig attached and possibly fly into a tree where it gets entangled losing pole rig and elastic, or even worse, striking the angler in the face or another part of his or her body embedding the float into his or her body or in serious cases his or her eye. Many accidents like this happen every year.

The only other way, at this moment, to try and free the hook or break the line is a straight pull back which does not clear the pole but stretches the elastic right out putting the strain onto the bung inside the pole. If the hoak does not free and the line snaps the right flies straight back, and with the strong elastics used today this could come back so fast that many times the wire stem of the float embeds itself in the anglers skin causing injuries fran mirm to serious. There is also the danger that one of the sections of pole may pull out catapulting part of his pole into the water.

Essential Technical Features My invention's use is to cut the line of the pole rig between the float which it is still in the water when the angler has fund that it is impossible to free the hook without the previous dangers occurring.

A specific embodiment of the invention will now be described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawing in which figure 1A represents a round version of the retriever and figure 1B represents an eg shapped version of the retriever.

Referring to the drawings of 1A and 1B both are two variations of the same pole retrieval system.

Both are made of a solid piece of material flat in construction which wil sink when placed into water. The thickness of the material is to be decided upon but wil be constant throughout. The prototype retriever will probably be out out but the production model will probably be of a cast material.

Out of the round or egg shaped material will be a round section or egg shapped section removed leaving a rim of approximately 4cms. The inside edge of the rim will be rounded to make a smooth surface. At a point on the inside of the rim will be a V shaped cut-oat mad, the width and depth to be determined. In the egg shapped version this straight V shaped out-out will be made in the centre of the smaller end of the eggshape - see 1B.

From the apex of this V cut-out will be out a slot running from the apex of the V cut outwards towards the outer rim (see 1A and 1B), this slot to be no wider than a 15lb's breaking strain fishing line.

Across the slot will be placed a permanent or replaceable stainless steel blade at least 3mm's from the entrance to the slot with the blade facing the V shaped cut-out. All surfaces will be smoothed and the edges of the V cut will be chamferred and smoothed.

Directly opposite the apex of the V cut on the rim will be drilled (or cast-in) a hole large enough to take a stainless steel ring. Tied to the ring or clipped by means of a dog lead type clip will be 20-25 metre of thin cord or line with a breaking strain of at least 50-100lbs. This line when not in use will be kept on a reel or pole type winder.

The angler who finds himself snagged on the bottom or on some obstruction in the water he Cr she is fishing will carry out the following procedure to retrieve his or her pole rig, only losing his hook in the 1. Firstly attach the line ar card to the metal ring on the retriever.

2. Holding the end of the line or cord slip the retriever cnto the butt of the pole.

Incline the pole downwards so the retriever slides down the pole and drops off the end of the pole and down the line and aver the float. The retriever will sink down the line to the obstruction. When the angler is satisfied that the retriever has the obstruction, keeping the retriever cord or line close down he should gently pull on the cord line. Because of the internal shape of the retriever the pole rig line near the hook will travel around the inside of the retriever until it enters the V shaped cut the line will tkren enter the groove at the apex of the V cut and be out by the blade lying across the groove. The angler will retrieve his pole rig minus the hook.

He should then retrieve his rig retriever, wipe it dry, wind the cord or line onto his reel or rig winder and place it bade into his tackle box for use on another occasion.

Please nffe that the line should always enter the V cut as the netal ring is placed directly opposite the V cut thus allowing the line to slide around the inside of the retriever when the cord or line attachment is pulled.

Claims (1)

1. Claim I claim that my pole rig retriever will slide down an anglers pole, drop off his pole and over his float, sizik down his line to a place near his hook (which is caught on the obstruction) and will cut the line between the hook and the float.

   REtrieving the anglers pole rig (minus his hook and a small amount of line), thus preventing possible injury to the angler, age, or loss of part of the pole or entanglement of the rig in a tree or similar hazard.