What is this thing?

[fleabagmatt]

I bet someone here has an idea, google hasn't been of any help.

I was out running the dogs on some BOR land that we hunt for pheasant/quail and found this thing leaning up against some sagebrush. From a distance my first thought was snake hook. It's about 4 feet long condensed form, but telescopes out to probably 15 feet or so. You don't need to be that careful around snakes.

The tag near the handle reads
RING-IT
MFD by
JayTee Division
of AREM Company
Mentor, Ohio

The area I found it was flooded earlier in the Fall and someone built a duck blind nearby, I am wondering if someone was using it to snag decoys or something. There are no trails or anything out there, so I can't imagine anyone but hunters being in the area.

Any ideas?

 

[gouch]

Looks like a snake hook.

 

[Rainer]

Looks like its a pole to help collect someone's decoys

 

[Straight Arrow]

Bad comedy skit on my club stage ... you're outa here!!!

 

[brymoore]

I’m guessing it was originally designed to get golf balls out of water with a little basket at the end but has been through a garage reconstruction for a different purpose.

 

[WildWill]

I have one very similar to that. Like @Rainer and @brymoore said mine is a old golf ball retriever I modified for a decoy pole.

 

[noharleyyet]

It's a gig wow...2nd cousin to sham