Removable and interchangeable limited resistance dive-action bait-navigating fishing bobber

Abstract

A removable and interchangeable limited resistance dive-action bait-navigating fishing bobber comprising, a substantially flat floatant body of an inverted tear drop design having a bottom slot containing a top notch for receiving a fishing line and a bottom notch for receiving a weight, a conical shaped weight having front and back ear extensions with a connecting rod that interlocks into the bottom notch of the slot in the floatant body retaining the weight to the floatant body. The top of the ear extensions forms a hole in the top notch of the slot retaining the bobber to the fishing line. The weight is removable from the floatant body when the rod is pulled out of the bottom notch allowing the bobber to be removed from the fishing line and the floatant body and weight to be interchangeable with other weights and bodies.

Description

[0001] This invention relates to an improved limited resistance dive-action bait-navigating fishing bobber, especially to an improved limited resistance dive-action bait-navigating fishing bobber that is removable from a fishing line having a weighted body that is interchangeable with different weights or the weight is interchangeable with different bodies providing substantially improved fishing to fishermen. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] Fishing floats and bobbers of prior art are commonly used to float bait or suspend bait in a body of water. Bobber and floats also allow the fisherman to visibly watch to see if a fish is striking at the attached bait by the movement of the float or bobber on top of the water. [0003] Floats and bobbers have been designed to float significantly above the water line to be highly visible to the fisherman. Some floats have been designed with brightly colored vanes extending above the water line for higher visibility and also designed for less res...

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Benefits of technology

[0012] Another object of the present invention is to provide a limited resistance dive-action bait-navigating bobber or float that can be quickly and easily attached to a fishing line and removed from the fishing line providing a substantially more useful and marketable product.

[0013] A further object of the applicant's invention is to provide a limited resistance dive-action bait-navigating fishing bobber that has a weight that is easily removable from the floatant material or bobber body allowing the bobber to be easily removed from the fishing line and allows the weight to be interchangeable with other bodies or the body of the bobber to be interchangeable with other weights. The weight and floatant body being interchangeable allows the fisherman to quickly change color or style body with a desired weight size for attracting fish under different circumstances or simply change the size of the weight used with a particular body that allows the fisherman to fish at a particular depth or different depth in the water from top to bottom or dive deeper more quickly the heavier the weight.

[0014] Yet another aspect of the present invention provides a removable and interchangeable limited resistance dive-action bait-navigating fishing bobber that has stabilizing fins for casting and diving under certain circumstances. The fins are positioned vertically from top to just above the weighted bottom in the approximate center of the bobber body. The body being interchangeable can be quickly changed to a body with stabilizing fins for windy conditions to help prevent the bobber body from spinning and tangling the fishing line. The body without fins provides a somewhat motion resistant bobber under windy conditions when fishing the surface.

[0016] In accordance with a further aspect of the present invention, in the preferred embodiment of the present invention there is provided a removable and interchangeable limited resistance dive-action bait-navigating fishing bobber that has a hollow body, wherein beads or the like may be added to the hollow body providing a noise effect or rattle when the fishing line is jerked or tugged by the fisherman to attract fish.

[0017] Though improvements have been made through the years in the prior art of fishing bobbers and floats there remains the need for an improved limited resistance dive-action bait-navigating fishing bobber that is easily removable from the fishing line having interchangeable parts allowing the fisherman a variety choices to enhance the chances of catching fish.

Problems solved by technology

Round, pencil shaped, high rising, lighted, aerodynamic, water weighted, wobbling, sound emitting and many more different designed bobbers and floats have come along, yet a problem with most is that they are limited to the area in which they float and limited in the functions they perform.

The prior art of the limited resistance fishing bobber does not provide a removable bobber that allows the weight and floatant material to be removable and interchangeable with other weights and bodies for fishing under different circumstances, allowing the fisherman to change body color or style, or change to a different size weight to fish suspended at different levels in the water from top to bottom or fish deeper faster or slower depending on the weight.

A problem with this design is the inability to remove the bobber from the line without cutting or untying the attached fishing line.

The connection of the weight to the bobber using a small piece of fishing line to tie the weight to the bobber is time consuming and difficult to manufacture.

The bobber of U.S. Pat. No. 5,775,025 does not allow the bobber to be removed from the fishing line without removing the bobber stop and cutting the fishing line to remove the hook.

A removable means or interchangeable body adaptable to this design was unknown and unobvious in prior art and no mention of the possibility of a removable interchangeable bobber is conveyed in the language of U.S. Pat. No. 5,775,025 or in prior art.

The problem with this design of an attachment means is that it is not compatible with the design of the applicant's invention of a removable and interchangeable limited resistance dive-action bait-navigating fishing bobber.

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