A device embodiment comprises a fishing rod; a regular and additional reel
rotatable by a handle; a mechanism including a ratchet wheel, a
string-lever rotatable about a lever axis, a spring-lever rotatable about
the lever axis connecting the levers, an orifice in the string-lever, a
tongue fixed on the string-lever, a spring attached to the spring-lever
remotely to the tongue, a regulative means to vary dispositions between
the levers, spring, and string; wherein all the mechanism's elements are
so configured that tend to disengage the tongue from the wheel's teeth; a
string woundable on the additional reel by revolving the handle and tied
to the rod's free end, which string is threaded through the orifice so
that capable to engage the tongue with the wheel's teeth while said
string being stretched between the additional reel and the rod's free
end. Other embodiments may be modified for traps, anti-theft, alarm
systems.