Patent ID: 8201356

Claim:
An ice fishing line protection device comprising: a. an elongated tube with a top end and a bottom end, i. said tube having an internal passageway extending from the top end to the bottom end through which a fishing line may pass, b. buoyancy means attached to the tube for maintaining the top end of the tube in an elevated position relative to the bottom end while the tube is disposed in water, c. means for extracting the tube from a hole in a sheet of ice that is filled with water, i. said means for extracting including a linkage extending upwardly from the tube disposed in the hole, said linkage being accessible to a fisherman on top of the sheet of ice and having a pole connector that engages a fishing pole of the fisherman, whereby, the tube can be extracted from the hole in the sheet of ice that is filled with water upon the fishing pole being pulled away from the hole with the pole connector engaged thereto.