Patent ID: 7380366

Claim:
A trolling device comprising: a horizontally elongated body having a long axis and further having a substantially vertical slot wherein the plane of said substantially vertical slot intersects the long axis of said horizontally elongated body at an angle of φ, a planar guide fin having an attachment point, means for rotatably attaching said planar guide fin to said horizontally elongated body at said attachment point, wherein said planar guide fin both is in a substantially vertical plane that intersects the long axis of said horizontally elongated body at an angle of θ and rotates about an axis which is perpendicular to a plane in which the planar guide fin extends, and wherein a range of angular rotation of said planar guide fin about said attachment point is α, a rudder slidably constrained within said substantially vertical slot, means for limiting the sliding motion of said rudder, means for attaching a fishing line, and means for attaching a fishing leader.