Patent ID: 7818914
Filing Date: 2010-10-26
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. A fish dehooking device comprising: an elongated slender rod having a handle disposed at one end of said rod; a looped treble hook guard having first and second ends, the first end of the hook guard being connected to an opposite end of said rod, said looped treble hook guard extending laterally from and substantially orthogonal to said rod; a short straight rod portion having first and second ends, said short straight rod portion being substantially parallel to and laterally offset from said rod, said second end of said looped treble hook guard connected to said first end of said short straight rod portion; a generally spiral looped hook removal end connected to the second end of the short straight rod portion, said hook removal end being spiral wrapped so as to extend through approximately 360 degrees and lying in a plane which is at an acute angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the short straight rod portion; said hook guard having a shape which extends through approximately 180 degrees and being sized and shaped, when viewed along a length of said rod, to equal or exceed a projected area of a treble fishing hook when one hook of the treble fishing hook is engaged against said hook removal end; said hook guard, in combination with said hook removal end, defining a projected perimeter lengthwise of said rod at least as large as that of a treble hook whereby hooks of the treble hook may be withdrawn from a gullet of a fish together with said device without reengagement of any of the hooks into the gullet of the fish.