Patent ID: 6553710
Filing Date: 2003-04-29
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
A fly rod seat butt protection device comprising:a resiliently expandable body conformable to a shaft and rimmed butt of a fly rod reel seat, said body having a front and a rear end, a cylindrical bore formed in said body, and an exterior surface of said body from said front end tapering outwardly and convergent with a domed-shaped exterior surface of said rear end, said bore having an interior diameter smaller than said reel seat shaft and said rimmed butt, and said bore extending rearward to intersect with a substantially perpendicularly positioned, outward extending inner annular ridge forming part of an annular recess with an outer end of said ridge connecting with an inner concave sidewall defining part of an inner surface of said rear end of said body, wherein said device may releasably fit over said fly rod reel seat with said shaft and said rimmed butt of said reel seat being compressively secured respectively in said bore and said annular recess of said device.