Patent ID: 7478497

Claim:
A fish handling tool, comprising: a rod-like grip; a main body supported by the grip at a base end thereof; a fixed tooth fixed to a tip end of the main body at a base end thereof; a movable tooth pivotally supported by the tip end of the main body at a base end thereof and allowing a tip end of the movable tooth to abut against a tip end of the fixed tooth in an original position; a lock means for preventing the movable tooth from moving so as to not separate the tip end of the movable tooth from the tip end of the fixed tooth; an operating member having a finger hook movably provided on the main body; a forced movement means provided between the operating member and the lock means and forcibly separating the tip end of the movable tooth from the tip end of the fixed tooth by releasing the lock means by forcibly moving the finger hook provided on the operating member toward the grip; and a return spring returning the forced movement means along with the lock means, the operating member and the movable tooth into their respective original positions by releasing a forced movement of the finger hook, wherein a finger hooking position on the finger hook crosses a center line of the rod-like grip, the fish handling tool is structured such that when the finger hook is hooked with a finger of a hand that grips the rod-like grip and the finger hook is pushed upward with the finger along the center line of the rod-like grip, the movable tooth is forced to pull away from the fixed tooth in a direction where the tip end of the movable tooth is separated from the tip end of the fixed tooth, and the fish handling tool is structured such that when the finger is released from the finger hook and while the finger hook returns to the original position, the forced movement means is released and the movable tooth automatically returns to the original position.