Patent ID: 7934338

Claim:
A fishing pole accessory for use with a fishing pole, the accessory comprising: a dual axis accelerometer integrated circuit detecting vibrations of the accessory and rotational angle of the accessory relative to a surface of the earth; a user input device; an alarm device; and a microcontroller in data communication with the accelerometer, the user input device, and the alarm device; the microcontroller having programming that: (a) computes tilt of the accessory independent of time using data from the accelerometer; (b) computes tilt of the accessory per unit time using data from the accelerometer; (c) activates the alarm device when a computed time-independent tilt value determined by the micrcontroller exceeds a selected time-independent tilt value input through the user input device; and (d) activates the alarm device when a computed time-dependent tilt value determined by the microcontroller exceeds a selected time-dependent tilt value input through the user input device.