Adjustable Rotational Flasher with Orbiting Trailer for Fish Attraction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional line fishing devices lack effective visual and vibrational attractants to lure fish towards a hook not directly attached to the rotational flasher, limiting the attraction and catch rate of fish species that respond to visual or vibrational cues.
Innovation Solution
An adjustable fishing flasher device with a planar main body featuring rotating and orbiting capabilities, angled fins, and a highly reflective surface, designed to create a visually appealing and unpredictable motion in the water, simulating a wounded fish to attract fish through rotational symmetry and hydrodynamic forces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a hook is not directly attached to the rotational flasher, then the flasher can create more unpredictable motion and attract fish, but the connection between the flasher and hook becomes weaker and less reliable
Solution Approach 1:
A trailer assembly with multiple trailers is introduced as an intermediary between the rotational flasher and the hook. This trailer assembly maintains the connection while allowing independent motion, enabling the flasher to create unpredictable motion patterns without compromising the connection reliability. The trailers act as mediators that transmit motion while accommodating the separation between flasher and hook.
2Productivity
If the flasher creates strong visual and vibrational attractants, then fish attraction increases, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The flasher assembly is segmented into multiple independent components: the rotational flasher body, multiple trailers, and associated fins. Each segment performs a specific function - the flasher body generates visual attractants through rotation, while the trailers provide vibrational attractants through their motion. This segmentation allows the system to achieve strong fish attraction without requiring a single complex device, as each component can be optimized independently.
3Illumination intensity
If the flasher rotates and orbits to simulate wounded fish, then visual attraction improves, but the device requires multiple attachment points and adjustment mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The flasher assembly incorporates dynamic elements including a rotatable flasher body, orbiting trailers, and adjustable fins that can change orientation. These dynamic components work together to simulate the erratic motion of wounded fish, creating strong visual attraction. The dynamic nature of the system allows it to adapt to different fishing conditions without requiring complex manual adjustment mechanisms, as the motion is generated automatically by the interaction of the dynamic components with water flow.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The device increases the likelihood of fish attraction and biting by combining visual and vibrational cues, with adjustable settings for orbital radius and longitudinal oscillation to mimic a wounded fish, enhancing catch rates across various fish species.
Implementation Method 1
at least one transverse side of the main body having a highly reflective surface thereon
Implementation Method 2
a plurality of fins each extending from the main body along a fin fold line at a fin fold angle such that each fin is not coplanar with (extends at an angle with respect to) the main body
Implementation Method 3
designed to create a visually appealing and unpredictable motion in the water, simulating a wounded fish to attract fish through rotational symmetry and hydrodynamic forces
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed herein is a fishing flasher device which is configured to be attached to a main fishing line to be drawn through the water, generally by trolling behind a slowly moving water vessel. The flasher device has an on-axis mainline attachment on the forward end to produce a spinning or rotational movement about the axis of the mainline. The flasher device also has at least two off-axis mainline attachments at varied lateral offsets from the longitudinal axis at the forward end of the flasher. The off-axis attachments configured to produce an orbiting motion rather than a rotational movement of the flasher device. A trailing line is generally attached to a trailing line attachment point on the rearward end of the flasher device to which is connected lures, bait, hooks, etc. for catching fish.