Automatic fish hook and method of use

Patent Application United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Application No. 10730431
Examiner Kurt C Rowan, presiding
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No Logo James J. Miller, Lafayette, LA, Applicant

Represented by The Matthews Firm

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