#$%^&*AU2013203023A120130502.pdf#####ABSTRACT To address tangle problems that a fishing line before passing a line guide ring is tightened around a fishing line guide just after casting and that the fishing line passing through the line guide ring of the fishing line guide goes around a rear 5 side of the line guide ring due to "line slack" or the like so as to be tightened around the fishing line guide, the guide is provided with the following features: a line guide ring having a round shape a pair of right and left side support legs extending downward from right and left sides of said line guide ring and 10 an attaching portion provided at the lower portions of said pair of right and left support legs and attachable to a rod body, wherein an outer peripheral surface of the line guide ring is disposed away from the rod body wherein, in front view, said right and left support legs have outer contour 15 surfaces, and said right and left support legs are curved outwardly with respect to right and left tangential lines of the line guide ring so that a fishing line is not catchable on the right and left support legs to turn back the fishing line, wherein the right tangential line is defined by a straight line passing through a boundary point between a left side of the attaching portion and the left 20 support leg and tangential to a right outer surface of the line guide ring, and the left tangential line is defined by a straight line passing through a boundary point between a right side of the attaching portion and the right support leg and tangential to a left outer surface of the line guide ring, wherein said right and left support legs are extended from the right and left 25 sides of said line guide ring toward the rod body, and the outer contour surfaces of the right and left support legs are located outside right and left outer contour lines of the region surrounded by the right and left tangential lines, respectively, so that even when the fishing line before pass
