Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing – Fixed support line handling means – e.g. – trawls
Patent
1988-09-16
1990-02-06
Godici, Nicholas P.
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
Fixed support line handling means, e.g., trawls
43 571, A01K 7900
Patent
active
048979546
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The subject invention concerns an apparatus for baiting long lines comprising a main line and a number of hook leaders which are suspended from the main line at regular intervals and which support hooks at their outer free ends.
In professional long line fishing very long reef lines are used, comprising several thousands of hooks. Baiting all these hooks manually would be too complicated and time-consuming. For this reason an apparatus has been in use for some time which comprises a container holding the bait mixed with water. The container is equipped with guide rollers serving to guide a long line which is pulled through the container from the inlet opening at the top of the apparatus at one end thereof down through the bait to ensure that the hooks to be baited pass through the mass of bait and that each hook, upon its passage catches some bait, and to carry the baited line further through an opening formed at the opposite end of the container and direct it down into the sea.
An apparatus of this kind allows baiting of the hooks of the long line to be carried out a great deal quicker than would be possible by baiting the hooks manually. However, one has found that as soon as part of the bait inside the container has been carried away by the hooks and consequently the bait concentration in the water is reduced it becomes gradually more difficult for the hooks to "catch" the bait. As a result, a large number of hooks, entrained by the long line, may leave the container without having any bait impaled thereon.
Attempts have been made to use only bait inside the container, thus without mixing it in water, so as to ensure that the hooks always pass through bait as long as there is any left in the container. However, this solution has proved to be not entirely satisfactory, the reasons being that a compact mass of bait exerts a larger resistance force which the hooks have to overcome when passing through the bait, with the result that a piece of bait, although impaled by a hook during the passage of the latter through the mass of bait, easily is torn into pieces by the friction and comes off the hook. In addition, the reef line, passing through the mass of bait, gradually forms a track therein which is free of bait with impairing baiting results.
The purpose of the subject invention is to solve the problem of ensuring maximum baiting results with the aid of an automatized baiting apparatus. This has become possible in accordance with the teachings of the invention therein that in a container of the kind described initially through which the long line travels guided by rollers, a first baffle is provided which extends essentially in the direction of advancement of the reef line, said baffle being adjustable into various angular positions relative to the interior end wall of the container so as to define with said interior end wall a baiting zone of varyable width through which the reef line including its hook leaders and hooks is made to pass during the line advancement through the container. An apparatus of this kind ensures considerably improved baiting results.
In accordance with a further development of the invention a second baffle is provided behind the first baffle as seen in the direction of advancement of the line, said second baffle being adjustable into various positions of inclination to control the inflow of bait and water behind the first baffle. This arrangement improves even further the possibilities of inducing bait to be pierced by the hooks compared with prior-art technology, also when the greater part of the supply of bait in the container has been consumed.
The invention will be described in closer detail in the following with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein
FIG. 1 is a perspective, partly broken view through the apparatus in accordance with the one embodiment thereof, and
FIG. 2 is a vertical cross-sectional view through the container of FIG. 1.
The apparatus consists of a container 1 with a feed-in funnel 2 through which a long line 3 is pulled into the container, and wit
REFERENCES:
patent: 4250648 (1981-02-01), Jacobsen
patent: 4354323 (1982-10-01), Huff
patent: 4644677 (1987-02-01), Chureau
Godici Nicholas P.
Profish International AB
Starkweather Michael William
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