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The spring loaded fishing rod is a fresh or salt water fishing rod that allows a fisherman to cast without using any swinging force of the arm. This allows the angler more accurate casting as well as aiding him when casting from beneath trees or in dense underbrush. The first version of the present

The spring loaded fishing rod is a fresh or salt water fishing rod that allows a fisherman to cast without using any swinging force of the arm. This allows the angler more accurate casting as well as aiding him when casting from beneath trees or in dense underbrush. The first version of the present invention is basically a spring loaded fishing rod wherein the top portion of the rod slides into the lower portion of the rod, compressing a spring which propels the lure in the desired direction when the tension is released. The second version of the present invention can be added on to an existing rod and features a spring loaded cartridge with two eye hooks which is suspended from the last two eyes on the existing rod. The end eye slides along the cartridge to compress the enclosed spring. In the third version of the present invention, the spring is loaded in the distal portion of the rod, and the end eye slides through the tube to compress the spring. In all of the versions, the fisherman compresses the spring by winding the lure up to the end eye and then continuing to reel in the line.

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1. A spring loaded fishing rod comprising:an elongated cylindrical rod having a top end, a bottom end, and an outer surface, wherein said rod is formed with a pair of longitudinal concave grooves on said outer surface, and wherein said grooves are parallel to each other and to the longitudinal axis

1. A spring loaded fishing rod comprising:an elongated cylindrical rod having a top end, a bottom end, and an outer surface, wherein said rod is formed with a pair of longitudinal concave grooves on said outer surface, and wherein said grooves are parallel to each other and to the longitudinal axis of said rod and would both be bisected by a plane that bisected said longitudinal axis of said rod and one groove of said pair of grooves;an elongated, hollow cylindrical tube having a top end, a bottom end, an outer surface, and an inner surface, wherein said inner surface of said tube is formed with a pair of longitudinal ridges, and said tube being slideably connected on said top end to said bottom end of said cylindrical rod, and wherein said ridges slide through said grooves of said rod when said rod is inserted into said tube;a compression spring having a first end and a second end and connected to said tube, wherein said spring resides in the hollow of said tube;a spacer unit having a first end and a second end and removably connected to said spring and said tube wherein said spacer unit is inserted into the hollow of said tube after said spring and said second end of said spring rests against said first end of said spacer unit;an end cap removably connected to said bottom end of said tube, wherein said end cap holds said spring and said spacer unit inside said tube;an elongated pole having an outer surface, a top end formed with a small hollow, and a bottom end and said pole being connected on said top end to said end cap, wherein said end cap is inserted into said hollow and wherein said elongated pole has the same length as said rod and said tube when said rod and said tube are joined together;a plurality of eyes connected to said outer surfaces of said pole, said tube, and said rod, wherein one of said eyes is connected to said top end of said rod and serves as an end eye; anda reel connected to said outer surface of said elongated pole near said bottom end.