capture opposed portions of the bows intermediate the hooks and the central or ramped portions of the bow. The pivot mountings and the bow restrainers may be formed from bent spring steel wire as separate forms or as an integral form and secured to the impact body either internally or externally as required.
In another aspect this invention resides broadly in a lure retriever including:
an elongate impact body;
fore and aft supporting guides which may be engaged about a snagged line for guiding the lure retriever for travel therealong to the snagged lure;
opposed bow mountings on the elongate impact body for releasably supporting a latching bow, and
a latching bow releasably connected to the opposed bow mountings, the latching bow having a central latching part adapted for latching onto the snaggedon the other side in the axial direction of the rotational shaft, a plurality of first planetary gears meshed with the first sun gear and an internal gear provided on an inner peripheral side of the rotating-side housing and revolving while rotating around the first sun gear, and a first carrier rotatably supporting each of the first planetary gears. The second-stage planetary gear reduction mechanism is constituted by a cylindrical second sun gear connected to the first carrier and having a through hole through which the rotational shaft is inserted, a plurality of second planetary gears meshed with the second sun gear and internal gears provided on the inner peripheral side of the rotating-side housing and rotating the rotating-side housing by rotating around the second sun gear, and