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1. A fishing strike indicator, comprising:
a hollow plastic body defining a spherical interior void and an outer surface, a passageway for fluid communication being formed into the interior void, the body being buoyant when the void is empty of water; a springless boss on the outer surface of the body and defining at least part of the passageway for fluid communication, no other boss being on the body, the boss being made unitarily with the body; a hollow grommet; and a screw made separately from the grommet and defining a threaded shank around which the grommet is disposed, the shank threadably engaging the boss to selectively block and unblock the passageway for fluid communication, no spring being interposed between the screw and boss, the screw further defining:
a collar, the collar defining an inwardly-facing surface defining a plane and an outwardly-facing surface parallel to the plane defined by the inwardly-facing surface, the grommet being disposed against the inwardly-facing surface of the collar of the screw, wherein the screw is rotatable between a disengaged configuration, in which the passageway is open to permit fluid communication into and out of the interior void of the body, and a tightly engaged configuration, wherein the passageway is blocked and the grommet contacts a top surface of the boss to trap a fishing line between the grommet and the top surface of the boss in that the fishing line when trapped is sandwiched between the grommet and the top surface of the boss, lying against both the grommet and the top surface of the boss, the screw also defining:a manipulable flange extending away from the outwardly-facing surface of the collar and defining a plane perpendicular to the plane defined by the inwardly-facing surface of the collar. |
