Improvements in Fishing Tackle.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 17th May, 1899-Accepted, 24th June, 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fishing Tackle.
I, AUGUSTUS WILLIAM PARKER, of 39, Lombard Street, London, E.C., Insurance
Broker and Member of the British Sea Angler's Society, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to improvements in booms used for fishing purposes, by
means of which a fish on seizing the baited hook for the moment feels no
resistance, either from the angler's line or lead sinker. I accomplish this by
fixing small pendulums either to the angler's line or to the boom, each pendulum
being sufficiently weighted to cause it to hang perpendicular or nearly so, thus
resisting the current in which it is being used.
The trace with baited hook or hooks attached is fastened to the pendulum by
either of my improved connections to be hereinafter described.
Two descriptions of tackle are generally used in bottom fishing by anglers,
namely ledgers and paternosters. The ledger being used when fishing on com-
paratively level bottoms, the paternoster when fishing amongst rocks, piles or
rough ground. My improved paternoster boom is shown in Fig. 1 in the accom-
panying drawings.
It consists of a wire bent at right angles, having eyes at A A1 and A2. The
eyes at A and A2 are for the purpose of fastening it to the angler's running line
or trace, A and A is from one to three inches long. From eye A is attached
a length of rather finer wire B, from two to three inches long having an eve at
each end. To the lower eye is attached a wire bent as shown in the Fig. 1 C, D, E.
C forms the hook to which the gut of the fish hook is fastened. At C¹ a small
ring is fixed at right angles to the lower wire by solder or any other known
means.
The gut of the fish hook is attached by passing the gut loop through the small
ring C and then over the end of the hook C and drawing the loop through the
ring. The pendulum weight is slung at E, it may be fixed to the wire as shown
in Fig. 1, or made to slide up and down from E to D Fig. 2. The lead is
kept in any desired position by means of a fine wire twisted three or four times
ound the wire E below the weight, this wire should then be carried up to the
top of the weight and again twisted two or three times round E. The lower the
reight is hung, the greater the leverage and consequently the greater resistance
t offers to the tide. Or the weight can be attached as shown in Fig. 3, this
orm of pendulum permits of different weights being used, and is useful where
eavy currents exist.
The fulcrum of the boom A, A1, A2, Fig. 1 is at A¹, when a fish is hooked it
ulls in a direct line from C to A¹, therefore the portion of the boom A¹ A acts
s a lever and lifts A2 with the sinker attached to the end of the line. The
ength of the boom A1 A2 should not be more than about 11 inches long, and
f a wire sufficiently thick to prevent it being bent by the weight of the sinker.
ome fish when hooked revolve as they are being drawn to the surface, for
nstance Pouting. I then use a swivel to which my new hook and ring attach-

page_text: ment is added in lieu of the ordinary buckle (well known to angler's) which
prevents the gut being twisted into knots. This arrangement is shown at X
C¹C Fig. 4.
Pendulum weights may for ordinary fishing be either cast on the wire, or the
lead can be threaded and then fixed by slightly bending the wire and drawing
the lead weight down on to the bend as shown in Fig. 4 at E.
The improved ledger boom Fig. 5 is somewhat similar to the paternoster. The
end of the running line is tied to one end of an ordinary swivel X, to the other
end of swivel is fixed the boom A A¹ A² At A² a somewhat finer wire link F
is hung connecting a much thicker wire for holding the lead sinker shown at G.
To the eye A is attached the pendulum link B, for connecting the pendulum weight
holder E to the boom, and the hook and ring connection C, C¹, D. The whole
being formed of one wire. The upper portion of the boom A. A¹ is from half to
one inch long, the lower portion A¹ & A² should be about the same length as
in the paternoster boom.
The pendulum link 13 should be from three to four inches long. C, D, E should
be made of wire of the same thickness as that of the boom. The total length of
the apparatus from A to G must be from half to one inch longer than the
pendulum link B and holder E in order that the latter may not drag or touch
the bottom.
When a weight is employed instead of a pendulum it is attached to the wire H
Fig. 6, sliding on the boom A A A², and passing through the eye at A having
the hook and ring connection already described C C¹ at its outer end, and an
eye on its inner end to which a fine piece of line is fastened which passes through
the eye A on the boom; it is then tied to the small weight holder K which
slides up and down the lead sinker link J.
The fish on biting causes the wire H to slide on the boom A A', which draws
up the small weight fastened to K which is used to resist the tide in lieu of
a pendulum.
The small eye about one inch from the eye A prevents the sliding wire being
drawn out too far, it also takes the strain of a fish off the fine line connecting H
and K. The boom A A¹ A² should be about five inches long, and the lead sinker
link about six inches long.
Instead of weights, springs may be used as shown in Fig. 7, the trace being
attached at C and the sinker at G. In all cases the pendulums weights or springs
are so adjusted as not to be moved by the current.
my
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
I. The improvements in fishing tackle described herein.
II. The hook and ring attachment C C connected to either boom or swivel.
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DAULTON, GRAHAM & Co.,
93, Leadenhall Street, E.C., Agents for Applicant.