Patent ID: 7900392

Claim:
A stripping basket of box like structure comprising: a front wall, a rear wall, and two foldable side walls, each of said front wall, said rear wall, and said two foldable side walls having a bottom edge; a flexible, pliable mesh connected to the bottom edges of the front, rear, and side walls; a rigid base plate overlying the flexible mesh in the operative set up position of the box like structure; a plurality of loop line separators removably mounted on said base plate in a predetermined array to prevent entanglement of the fishing line when placed on the basket to prepare for casting, wherein the line separators extend upwardly from said base plate; said rigid base plate pivotable to a position facing the front wall wherein the line separators extend through openings in the front wall so that the side walls can be pivoted inwardly or collapsed to compact the box like structure.