Patent ID: 6880289

Claim:
Apparatus for the knotless connecting and disconnecting of sections of fly fishing lines in cooperative combination comprising: a female component permanently attached to an end of a first fishing line and having a first ellipsoidal body having a bore therethrough at an acute angle to the first ellipsoidal body longitudinal axis, one end of said bore having a first contoured opening and the other end of said bore having a second contoured opening, a fusiform line mounting stem portion on the longitudinal axis on one end of said first ellipsoidal body, and a channel on the longitudinal axis of said first ellipsoidal body connecting one contoured opening to the other end of said first ellipsoidal body; and a male component permanently attached to an end of a second fishing line and having a second ellipsoidal body dimensioned to fit within said bore in said female component and having a fusiform stem portion on the longitudinal axis at one end of said second ellipsoidal body, said fusiform stem comprising a channel mating section proximal to said second ellipsoidal body and a line mounting portion distal to said second ellipsoidal body; thereby allowing the connection to, and disconnection from said fly fishing lines with one another.