Fishing rod with storable stake

Claim 1

A fishing rod with a storable rod stake formed and arranged to constitute a continuation of the rod handle, comprising a fishing rod having a rod section and an elongate handle, said handle being coupled to said rod section at one end and having a free end, a hollow bore formed in said handle and extending from said free end toward said one end, a one-piece unit comprising an elongate rod stake having a pointed end and a base end and mounting means coupled to said base end and formed with axially opposite coupling means for detachable coupling with the free end of said elongate handle, such that said mounting means can be coupled to the free end of said handle to constitute an integral part of the handle with said stake extending into and stored in said hollow bore, or with said stake extending from the free end of said handle so as to be insertable into the ground, said free end of said handle including a screw threaded portion on its periphery, and said axially opposite coupling means comprising threaded portions on said mounting means for screw engagement with said threaded portion of said handle, said threaded portions of said mounting means comprising interiorly threaded, axially opposite bores opening from opposite ends of said mounting means, said stake passing into one of said threaded bores and being fixed at its base end to the inner end of said one bore, but being spaced radially inwardly of the threads of said one bore, said stake including a pivot joint Between its pointed end and said mounting means to permit selective pivoting of the pointed end to a desired angle relative to the stake portion on the other side of said pivot joint so as to permit ready variation of the angle between the pointed end portion and the stake portion on the other side of said pivot joint, and hence between the pointed end portion and the fishing rod.