US Patent Issued on Oct. 20 for "Fishing rod holder for automatically hooking fish" (Louisiana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,530, issued on Oct. 20.

"Fishing rod holder for automatically hooking fish" was invented by Kenneth Morse (Coushatta, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fishing rod holder for holding a conventional fishing poles include rigid hoops to include a conventional fishing pole handle therein. The invention includes a trigger and trigger setting mechanism using a tension setting mechanism, actuating arm, trigger, and spring to set the fishing rod holder at a desired sensitivity. The fishing rod holder uses spring recoil energy to snap the fishing rod holder to quickly return to the resting position to hook a fish."

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