Automatic Fishing Pole

April 10, 2014

Question: Can a person use an automatic hook set fishing pole? It would be similar to the action of a mouse trap but with an electric latch that would be activated by the user of the pole holder via a push button switch. The electric latch would unhook and that would cause the pole to spring up and hook the fish. The pole holder would be attended to the whole time and the electric latch would have wires to a switch that a person would have in his hands to activate the latch when a bite is noticed, thus having it in hand and fully in control when the latch is released. Does this sound OK? (Roy D.)

Answer: Sure, give it a whirl! There’s nothing in the Fish and Game Code or Title 14 that prohibits the use of an automatic hook set fishing pole as you have described.

WTF?

Jawjacker. Standard ice fishing gear.

We have become so lazy as to push a button to hook the fish.

Oh no button. It detects the strike and sets the hook. A button just overly complicates things. Guess I should have read closer.

Still lame imho

Yeah, we all weave our own line from deer guts and use hooks fashioned from bone. Are we not men?

haha... actually, they're popular in Japan. I've seen on Youtube that quite a few Japanese PBs use them. I can't understand it.

Sounds like a fancy yoyo reel. I've got a couple like these: http://www.amazon.com/Mechanical-Fishers-Fishing-Package-TRIGGER/dp/B00ASP3YZK

Still lame imho

I concur.....setting the the hook and feeling weight is perhaps the greatest thrill in fishing for me.  I'll be damned if I let a mouse tap do it for me.