A line breaker for pulling a fishing line away from a point of entanglement comprises a horizontally extending tool having a pair of horizontally spaced ends, an upper surface, a lower surface, one of the ends constituting a handle for grasping by a fisherman, a pair of horizontally spaced and vertically projecting pegs extending relatively divergently outwardly from the upper surface of the tool adjacent the other end. The fisherman can wrap a slack portion of the line around the pegs individually and collectively and thereafter pull on the tool in a direction away from the point of entanglement for the purpose of breaking the line away from its entanglement.