From fishing for survival to catch-and-release tournaments, from the wealthiest sportfishing boat owner to the young child dropping his or her first line and hook into a creek, the human desire to improve upon both methods and gear has led to a seemingly unlimited number of ways for us to catch fish. PatentWear offers a few of the significant fishing-related patents that led to the sport—or pastime, as the case may be— as we know it today.