INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE FITTING UP OF LONGLINE AND FOR FISHING

      Fitting up of longline in the device (it is valid also for the drawing up of Longline)

       When the device is empty, there is only the inner crown, the smaller one. Restrain the top of the main line at the rotating roll and begin to rewind by revolving the device in a clockwise direction by means of the handle on its top. When the junction of the first trace is made, fix the main line near this junction in the nearest of the fissures on the lower border of the roll (Picture 6).

Take off the main line and continue to rotate by handle and when the second trace arrives, it has to be rewound as we said above. It is not important in what section the hook will be put without following an order (the hook can be put also in the opposite section and not necessarily in that after the first hook of the same crown).

After having filled up all the sections of the smaller crown, the following bigger crown will be put in and filled up as we said above.

Doing the same for all the crowns, the Longline will be put in the device. If during the rewinding a trace and its relative hook arrives in a section already occupied  by other hooks, the hook will be put in the first empty section even if the trace is not well rewound in the roll. In fact it will be provided that during the rewinding of Longline  the main line will pass on the part where the trace is not rewound, without problems.

  BAITING OF LONGLINE 

  In order to bait the Longline there is no order to follow. It is simply necessary to raise lightly the hooks from their places (without unthreading the thread from its fissure), to bait and to put them in their own places.

  DESCENT OF LONGLINE

  It is necessary to disconnect the non-return mechanism which is under the roll, then the discent begins by putting the device in anticlockwise rotation.

During the descent it will need the fishing-line and the device will give it rotating. As soon as the first trace arrives it unrolls and comes out.

Raise up then the baiting and let it fall down in the sea. The rotation can be regulated by tightening or loosening the handwheel of regulation of the clutch.

It is important to keep in mind that it is not possible to have a complete braking by tightening it because it could damage all the device.

When the baitings of the external and bigger crown finish, this latter will be unthreaded and it is possible to do the same with the others.