Barbless weighted releasable fish descending hook

摘要

An elongated barbless upside down hook, physically returns a fish back to the bottom, naturally recompressing the trapped air, oxygenating the fish on the way down and releasing it unharmed. The hook uses a weight attached at the end of the shank to descend the device and a retrieval line attached at the bend (bight) to withdraw the hook from the fish and bring the hook back to the surface. This device avoids any moving parts or triggers and is capable of returning any size fish or multiple fish at the same time.

主权项

1. An upside down descending hook comprising a tip, said tip being pointed, an elongated neck extending from the pointed tip to a bend, an elongated shank having a first end and an opposite second end defining a longitudinal axis of the elongated shank therebetween, the first end of the shank leading from the bend, the shank, neck and bend forming a generally U-shaped structure with the shank and neck being substantially parallel, a weight attaching ring attached to the second end of the shank, and a line retrieval ring attached to the bend, the weight attaching ring defining the bottom of the upside down descending hook, the line retrieval ring defining the top of the upside down descending hook, the tip being located along the longitudinal axis of the shank so as to be between centers of the line retrieval ring and the weight attaching ring, the line retrieval ring located between the neck and shank, the weight attaching ring and line retrieval ring being located on opposing sides of the longitudinal axis of the shank, and the neck and shank extend tangentially from an outer periphery of the line retrieval ring.