Fishing – trapping – and vermin destroying – Fishing – Methods of fishing
Patent
1986-07-23
1988-10-04
Godici, Nicholas P.
Fishing, trapping, and vermin destroying
Fishing
Methods of fishing
43 274, A01K 7900
Patent
active
047747820
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a method of handling fishing equipment and lines in the fishing equipment, particularly trotlines and preferably when the fishing equipment is handled from boats. By way of example trotlines are provided with numerous hooks.
BACKGROUND
There is a need for a simplified method of handling fishing equipment and lines, which may be considered to be particularly accentuated in the case of fishermen with lesser vessels but also for other fishermen, such as the large vessels of the fishing industry. It is well-known, for example, that a trotline is commonly 500 meters long, but often 1,000 meters long and even longer, and equipped with several hundred hooks and just as many leaders.
TECHNICAL PROBLEMS
Not only are the lines handled for the main part manually, for example trotlines, but in most cases the entire fishing equipment is basically handled manually at the present time, which implies extensive work with the equipment, especially after the catch, when the lines are sorted out before the next fishing trip. Such back-up work takes many hours. Moreover, the manual handling of fishing equipment requires the participation of several persons in spite of which it is time consuming. Manual handling also results in the limitation of trotline length and thus the number of hooks. In this context equipment for the storing of hooks and leaders has been proposed, but the equipment has proved to be complicated in its design and utilization and also takes up too much space. Moreover, the equipment is so costly to manufacture that not even professional fishermen with large fishing vessels can afford to acquire this equipment. Baiting and baiting-off devices have also been proposed to simplify the handling of the fishing equipment.
THE SOLUTION
The utilization of a method according to the invention enables handling to be carried out principally by autonomously working devices, which may be linked to a power source, whereby automatic handling of the fishing equipment can be achieved. Back-up work with the fishing equipment after the catch is totally avoided, and also the setting and hauling in of lines. The method can also include automatic baiting and baiting-off, whereby the fishing equipment does not require management of a person, but the person commanding the boat can simultaneously steer the method with any manual handling of the actual fishing equipment. Neither does the method necessitate a limitation of the length of lines and thus the number of hooks in its utilization. Moreover, the method can be carried out at a low cost, within the means of all professional fishermen, which are primarily in need of a simplified handling of the fishing equipment. The method in accordance with the invention is thus characterized by the lines being arranged for setting out and hauling in on a reel or similar, and further that a second drum, roll, bobbin or the like is arranged, from which a web is unwound and brought with at least a part of its length to be wound on a first drum or on an in one piece with the reel shaped first drum, whereby one or a number of hooks and/or at least parts of leaders are separated from a second or a second number of hooks and/or at least parts of leaders with the aid of at least one layer of the web or a layer in the web. One can say that hooks and leaders are cassetted with the aid of the web during the hauling in and storage of the lines.
In accordance with another characteristic of the method the second drum and the reel or the first drum are driven with the aid of their own motor, whereby during the setting out of lines the motor for the reel or the first drum is brought to free wheel, while the motor for the second drum is brought to drive the second drum for winding of the web on the second drum, whereby the reel or the first drum is driven or rotated by the winding of the web on the second drum and that the hooks and/or the leaders are subsequently released from the wound web and set out.
According to a further characteristic of the met
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Jacobsson Leif
Ulfling Roland
Godici Nicholas P.
Skillman Karen
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