Patent ID: 6412215
Filing Date: 2002-07-02
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
In a fishing trolling device comprising a trolling plane having a mounting surface, guide means on the trolling plane for guiding a fishing line along the plane of the trolling plane through said guide means, one end of the line extending to a baiting lure and the other end of the line being reelable for trolling, and a releasable latch means including a latch arm engageable with a pair of gripper jaws on said trolling plane having a latched condition clamping said trolling plane to the line, said latch means having a released condition responsive to the strike of a fish on the lure unclamping said trolling plane from the line and providing free sliding passage of the line through said guide means along the trolling plane, the line through said guide means extending substantially parallel to the plane of the trolling plane in said released condition of said latch means, said latch means including an eyelet guiding said other end of the line therethrough and then forwardly to said guide means, the improvement wherein:the guide means form a quick attachment arrangement enabling attachment of the fishing line to said trolling device without cutting the fishing line, and wherein the quick attachment arrangement includes a cutaway portion at the base of one of the gripper jaws allowing fishing line to be introduced through the cutaway and retained between the jaws.