let's go fishin'

A tabletop game that uses a rotating upper plate with holes in it for several plastic fish to mimic fishing. As the plate rotates it will move the plastic fish over protruding rails that lay below it. This will occasionally raise the plastic fish allowing them to open their mouths. A player using a toy fishing rod attempts to get the toy hook of the fishing rod into their mouths to catch the fish. The older versions of this game required having to then wait for the fish to descend and close their mouths on the hook, while newer versions use a magnet and so can lift the fish out as soon as its in their mouth.

US Patent #4,936,574. Filed September 21, 1988, by Ching H. Lee.