Patent ID: 6760995
Filing Date: 2004-07-13
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
A system for electronically controlling a fishing device in a body of water, said system comprising:a fishing device that includes means responsive to control instructions for controlling the device's depth and azimuth heading, the means for controlling the device's depth and azimuth having: a plurality of control surfaces extending from the device into a surrounding body of water; and electro-mechanical control means for deflecting the control surfaces; a remote controller that generates the control instructions; a processor interfaced with the remote controller; an external device interfaced with the processor that provides targeting information to the processor, said targeting information including location information of a fish; said processor autonomously determining appropriate control instructions in response to the targeting information and providing the appropriate control instructions to the controller to generate the control instructions; and a communications link between the fishing device and the remote controller that carries the control instructions from the remote controller to the fishing device, whereby the control instructions command deflection of the plurality of the control surfaces to control the device's depth and azimuth heading as the fishing device travels through the body of water.