Patent ID: 8109034

Claim:
A shoreline outrigger system, comprising: a surf rod having a bottom end and a tip end, with a generally straight axis and a length therebetween; a first reel attached to the surf rod adjacent to the bottom end of the surf rod; a second reel attached to the surf rod above the first reel; a tip guide on the surf rod adjacent to the tip end of the surf rod; a second guide on the surf rod below the tip end of the surf rod; an anchor weight; an anchor line running from the first reel through the tip guide and to the anchor weight which is cast out from the surf rod; an outrigger release clip slidably attached to slide up and down on the anchor line between the anchor weight and the tip guide; a clip retrieval line running from the second reel through the second guide to the outrigger release clip, the second reel controlling location of the outrigger clip on the anchor line; a fishing rod having a bottom end and a tip end, with a generally straight axis and a length therebetween, the length of the fishing rod being shorter than the length of the surf rod; a fishing reel attached adjacent to the bottom end of the fishing rod; a guide adjacent to the tip end of the fishing rod; a hook line having a hook end; and wherein the hook line runs from the fishing reel through the guide to the hook end, with a portion of the hook line between the hook end and the guide releaseably clipped to the outrigger release clip, wherein a fish pulling on the hook end causes the hook line to pull out of the outrigger release clip so that the fishing rod is useful to catch the fish.