Patent ID: 8365458

Claim:
A fishing line guide comprising: a line guide ring having a round shape; a pair of right and left side support legs extending downward from right and left sides of said line guide ring, wherein said right and left support legs each have a guide ring attaching portion to the line guide ring, an upper portion, and a lower portion that have outer contour surfaces, wherein the outer contour surfaces of the guide ring attaching portions and the upper portions of the right and left support legs are continuously coincident with right and left tangential lines of the line guide ring from the line guide ring to where the right and left tangential lines diverge from the outer contour surfaces of the upper portions of the right and left support legs and the outer contour surfaces of the lower portions are outside the right and left tangential lines of the line guide ring, respectively; and an attaching portion provided at the lower portions of said pair of right and left side support legs and attachable to a rod body, wherein the right tangential line is formed between a point tangent to a right outer surface of the line guide ring and an end point formed at an intersection between the attaching portion and the outer contour surface of the lower portion of the left support leg, and the left tangential line is formed between a point tangent to a left outer surface of the line guide ring and an end point formed at an intersection between the attaching portion and the outer contour surface of the lower portion of the right support leg, and wherein said line guide ring is inclined to a tip side, and an angle of junction between said line guide ring and said side support legs is made smaller at a butt side than at the tip side, in a side view.