WO1989007393A1

WO1989007393A1 - An artificial auto-pasturing bait for the dragging fishing

Info

Publication number: WO1989007393A1
Application number: PCT/IT1989/000007
Authority: WO
Inventors: Raffaello Busetti
Original assignee: Raffaello Busetti
Priority date: 1988-02-11
Filing date: 1989-02-06
Publication date: 1989-08-24
Also published as: AU3050989A; IT8847629A0; IT1219445B

Abstract

An artificial bait for the dragging fishing, having a shape similar to the already known dragging baits and being suited for delivering pasture, leaving the same down into the water during the dragging so as to attract the prey not only due to the external appearance and to the movement, but also due to the diffusion into the water of an odour trail.

Description

"An artificial auto-pasturing bait for the dragging fishing"

The present invention concerns artificial auto-pasturing baits for the dragging fishing. More in detail, the pre- sentinvention concerns artificial baits of various kinds and shapes, similar to those already known in the field of fishing, but also provided with the possibility of leav¬ ing behind,when they are dragged, a pasture that conside- rably increases the capacity thereof of attracting the prey.

It is already well known that the dragging fishing is a kind of hobby fishing performed by dragging a bait, usual¬ ly from a moving boat, so as to attract predatory species by simulating little fishes, calamaries or other little water animals which they eat. The bait for the dragging fishing may sometimes be also a living fish which is fastened to the end of the fishing line carrying the hooks.

In further variants, there exists a wide range of arti¬ ficial baits which more or less truly reproduce the sha¬ pes and colours of the real fishes. One of these baits is the one known as "small spoons", which are little me- tal things having an elongated oval shape, more or less similar to the one of a little fish, hollow (like c spoon) so as to assure an ondulating movement (or rotating, ac¬ cording to the shape) when they are dragged in tne water.

As the spoons are chromium-plated, in their movement they reflect the light so that under water they may be easily be mistaken with little silvery fishes.

Another kind of artificial baits for the dragging fishing consists of real imitations of little fishes out of pla¬ stic, rubber, wood etc., usually with bright, phosphore¬ scent or iridiscent colours for imitating the scales. So¬ me of.these little fishes are flexible because they are of rubber or soft plastic, and when they are dragged they move the tail; others are realized in two or more rigid sectors coupled one to another by means of small rings so as to be jointed.

Furthermore, there are on the market many kinds of arti- ficial baits imitating little calamaries and similar, li¬ ke those consisting of a tuft of feathers rotating on a little head, or those provided with fringes of soft pla¬ stic material being metalized or iridiscent and, among these, those having their head rotating due to two or mo- re helicoildal external tabs which, being pushed by the water flow during the motion, impress to the head of the bait a rotation movement around their own axis.

It is obvious that the described baits attract the Dreys due to their shape, the light emitted and the brightness of their colours, and to the fact that they seem to move like real fishes, thus being a mainly visible attraction. It is however well known that fishes do not have a good sight, mainly due to the kind of habitat in which they live, which have very small transparency levels: conse¬ quently, the sight has a rather secundary function with respect to the other senses like, mainly, the one of the taste and of the smell and the one consistinf of the so- called lateral line.

This last consists of a series of superficial longitudi- nal channels, communicating with the outside, and through which the* fish may resent the pressure and the vibrations of the water: through this sense the fish notices the movements of other -fishes, and it seems that it is able to distinguish the movement of a prey in anguish.

Therefore, it can be understood why a living bait is to be considered more successful than a dead or an artifi¬ cial one.

However, the most developped sense in fishes seems to be the smell, through which the fish can perceive also very diluted odours, or those being far away. This or¬ gan, which in fishes is totally separated from the breath¬ ing one, is placed in two bags placed in the front part of the snout and through which the water flows, entering from the one and getting out from the other and just touching on its way the real smelling organ. Exploiting the rather devellopped smelling of fishes, so¬ me kind of fishings use the so-called "pasturizing", which consist of diffusing in the water all aroung the fishing place, determined substances (or pastures) that attract the prey due to the odour that stimulates the hunger the¬ reof.

^* The pastures may consist of any kind of material stimulat¬ ing for the fish, being an alimentary call; usually they are a mixture of pulverized fishes (usually sardines or crayfishes), flours of various cereals or of hemp, pul¬ verized toasted bread, pulverized milk, sugar and various aromatizers aven with cheese taste, of flavours, of cherries or vanille, etc. Also liquid pastures are used, consisting e.g. of fish oils; furthermore there are also already prepared and formulated pastures on the market.

It is the aim of the present invention to exploit the ad¬ vantageous technique of pasturizing also for the dragging fishing where, due to the constant moving, the fishing place is not always the same.

The aim set forth is reached, according to the present in¬ vention, by supplying already known artificial baits (which may have the shape of a fish, of a cala ary of of a small spoon) with the further capacity of attracting the prey by delivering pasture, realizing artificial baits naving theexternal shape similar to those already used, but which furthermore contain a determined quantity of liquid, solid or doughy pasture, suitable for delivering the same gra¬ dually into the water when they are dragged, leaving be¬ hind them an odour trail that attracts the fish also from long distances, thus being summed to the call given by the external shape and by the movement.

The main principle of the present invention may be real¬ ized supplying an artificial bait with a cavity suitable for containing the pasture and appropriate openings for introducing the same and for having it get out when the bait is dragged in the water, or also realizing only one parto of the artificial bait with appropriate systems for coupling thereto or housing therein one portion rea- lized with preshaped solid pastire that will gradually solve in the water, or also realizing one-use baits alrea¬ dy comprising the pasture like, e.g., vesicular or bag containers of the kind "use and throw away" already filled with pasture, or blocks of solid mixed material containing pasturizing substances having the shape or a fish or simi¬ lar.

Thefore, the object of the present invention consists of an artificial bait for the dragging fishing, characterized in that it is provided with an internal cavity that will contain a determined quantity of pasture, and openings for the loading and delivering of the pasture. In particular, the bait may have the shape of a fish, internally hollow, with a loading opening near the head and one or more de¬ livery openings.

Through the loading opening, which preferrably is adju¬ stable and has a passage light that may be varied in ampli¬ tude, the pasture in form of a dough, of a solid or liquid mixture, is introduced inside the cavity, and when the ar¬ tificial fish is dragged in the water, said pasture gets out through one or more apposite openings, leaving a trail or odour behind the bait.

The loading opening is preferably placed near the head so that it may be exploited also for allowing the entrance of the water^' inside the bait, so that the pasture may be sol¬ ved and pushed towards the delivery openings. For further improving the diffusion of the water entering in the pastu¬ re mass, a small pierced tube may be provided inside the cavity, connected to the loading opening, having the func- tion of water distributor.

The artificial bait described may have a single delivery outlet being preferrably adjustable, near the tail, or even it may show an opening provided with an ejection device of the Venturi kind, that "sucks" the pasture (obviouslt li¬ quid) towards the outside due to the water flow being in movement with respect to the bait.

In a variant, the hollow bait in the shape of a fish may be realized in a very flexible plastic material or in rub¬ ber, as the delivery outlets consist in a seried of trans¬ versal openings placed on the two sides of the body of the fish.

It is a further specific object of the present invention an artificial bait for the dragging fishing, characterized in that it co prsises a support part that may be re-used, and that may be coupled with one part realized of solid waterslving material containing pasturizing substances. Said second part practically consists of a block or "bread" of pasture mixed with a watersolving (and eatable substan¬ ce.

In particular, that part that can be re-used comprises a hollow head of a fish or a calamary, to which eventually iridescent or metalized, soft plastic fringes may be joint¬ ed. The head of the calamary may be rotating, like the one of already known baits.

To this hollow head a cage structure may be hinged, show¬ ing the back part of the body of a fish, that may be open¬ ed by rotation of the two sections thereof around the hin¬ ges, so as to house inside thereof a block of watersolving solid material of the already described kind.

It is furthermore object of the present invention a arti¬ ficial bait for the dragging fishing, characterized in that it contains pasturizing substances. In particular, said bait may consist of a preshaped block having the shape of a fish of a solid pasture material like the one already mentioned, or it may be a one-use, vesicular or bag con- tainer full of pasture, being of elongated shape, imitat¬ ing a fish or a small spoon. The container may be a sheet of plastic material eventually iridescent or metalized, and it' ay contain liquid pasture. In this case it will be necessary to pierce the container before use, possib- ly with a small hole near the "head", and another one near the the.

In a further variant, the one-use container may consist of a layer of filtrating or pierced material, and it may be filled with watersolving, solid pasture.

The present invention will be now described hereinbelow, for exemplifying and not limitative purposes, making re¬ ference to the attached drawings, in which:

figure 1 shows a lateral elevated view of a first embodi¬ ment of the bait according to the present inven¬ tion; figure 2 shows a part top view in enlarged scale of the bait of figure 1; figure 3 shows a lateral elevated view of a second embodi¬ ment according to the present invention; figure 4 shows a lateral elevated view of a third embodi¬ ment according to the present invention; figure 5 shows a lateral elevated view of a fourth embodi¬ ment according to the present invention; figure 6 is a part section, top view of the bait of fi¬ gure 5; figures 7., 9 and 10 show three lateral elevated views of a fifth embodiment of the bait according to the present invention, assembled in a different way; figure 8, shows a cross view of the bait of figure 7; figure 11 shows a cross section view of the bait of fi¬ gure 10; figure 12 shows a lateral elevated view of a sixth embodi¬ ment according to the present invention; figure 13 shows a cross section view of the bait of figu¬ re 12; figure 14 shows a lateral elevated vies of a seventh embo¬ diment according to the present invention; figure 15 shows a lateral elevated view of an eighth em- bodiment according to the present invention; and figure 15 shows a lateral elevated view of a ninth embodi¬ ment according to the present invention.

Figures 1 to 16 show various embodiments according to the present invention in which the artificial bait, out of any suitable material, has the aspect of a little fish and is internally hollow so that the pasture may be housed the- reinside.

In the variant according to figure 1, the internal cavity 1 is shown, as well as the loading opening 2 and the one 3 fordelivering the pasture. Both openings are adjustable, being provided with a rotating closing device, more clear¬ ly shown in figure 2, in which the passage lights may be varied bringing the holes of the external nut 4 in major or minor coincidence with those of the internal part 5.

It is obvious that, according to the pasture to be used, to the dimension of holes 2 and 3 and to the realization, the adjustable devices may have different shapes, or also be completely absent.

When liquid pastures are used, a filling with absorbing material may be provided inside cavity, like e.g. a spon¬ ge that absorbes the products and gradually releases it. Or also, two absorbing tampons may be provided near the two openings which appropriately limit the water inlet and the-pasture outlet without requesting adjustable clos¬ ing devices.

In figure 3 a further variant of tha bait according to the present invention si shown, in which to a delivery opening 3 an ejection device 6 of the Venturi kind is coupled which, due to the water flow during the motion, extracts the (liquid) content of cavity 1. 7 shows a fur¬ ther possible delivery outlet for the pasture, while 8 shows the sinker, already present in many kinds of baits.

The embodiment of figure 4 is provided with a small oierc- ed tube 9 that facilitates the water distribution inside the pasture mass contained in cavity 1, which the embodi¬ ment of .figure 5 and 6 is out of soft plastic or rubber, with a loading opening 2 of the kind of those already men- tioned, and a series of delivery openings 10 consisting of vertical fissures placed along the body of the fish. Pre¬ ferably the fissures, provided with an edge 11 projecting like a tab, are placed offsett on the two sides of the body so as to facilitate an ondulatory movement of the bait during the dragging.

In figures from 7 to 11 a kind of artificial bait is shown already provided with pasture which, due to its features. may be one-use. It is a vesicular container, e.g. o^f a metalized plastic sheet, imitating the shape of a small spoon (like those shown with 12 in figures 9,10 and 11), and it is filled up with pasture. Such an article may be, .g., used all alone, instead of the the small spoon, as shown in figures 7 and 8. An internal small steel wire 13 mau be provided internally , connected with the two eye¬ lets 14 and 15. If the container of the bait is out of plastic material it will be necessary, before use, perform some holes as shown in 16 and 17. In a further variant, the container may be filtrating of pierced, with a solid watersolving pasture that may be released only by putting the bait into the water.

The same kind of bait may also be assembled as shown in figures 9 and 10, i.e. together with the real little spoon. In the 'first case the bait according to the present inven¬ tion is placed on the end part of the fishing line 18, upstream of the spoon 12, having a pulley 19 interplaced eventually a section of the fishing line 18. During the dragging the tension of the fishing line passing through the two- eyelets 14 and15 of the bait favours the emptying of the last one.

In the disposition of figures 10 and 11 the bait accord¬ ing to the present invention is assembled, by means of eyelets 14 and 15, directly above the spoon 12.

A further kind of artificial bait already containing pa¬ sture, shown in figures 12 and13, consists in a preformed block of solid mixed material containing pasturizing substances and an eatable watersolving mixture, e.g. fish glue. The mixture may be provided with any kind of co- loured or silvered parts, like those used for preparing cakes. When the block is placed into the water and dragg- ged, it gets slowly consumed and solved in the water. In the variant shown, the bait is hooked in the end part of fishing line 18 by means of said hooks20 passing, toge¬ ther with the fishing line, in throath 21 and in channel 22 provided in the preshaped block.

In figures 14 and 16 kinds of baits are shown in which one part can be re-used, of plastic material or similar, and theother one consists of a block of pasture like the one described'in figure 12. It may be for example the head .of a fish 23, provided .with fringes 24 in soft iridescent plastic, being phosphorecent or metalized, in which a solid preshaped block 25 may be inserted containing pasture so as to build the rest of the fishe's body, or also a rotat¬ ing head .26 of a calamary, of the already known kind, the pasture block 25 being assured to the rest of the bait with the same system of hooks 20, throat 21 and channel 22 al¬ ready shown in figure 12.

In a last example, in figure 16, an artificial bait is shown consisting in a fish's head 27 to which a cage struc¬ ture 28 is hinged: the small cage, devided in two sections, is kept closed by hook 20 inserted into eyelet 29, and may house a block of solid material containing pasturizing substances of the kind described in the precedent figures.

It shall be underlined that the bait of figure 16 may be also used together with a real fish that could be closed, living or dead, into the small cage.

Claims

1. An artificial bait for the dragging fishing characterized in that it has an internal cavity suitable for containing a predetermined quantity of pasture, and openings for the loading and delivering said pasture.

2. An artificial bait according to claim 1, having the shape of a fish being internally hollow, showing an opening for loading the pasture near the head, and one on more deliv¬ ering openings.

3. An artificial bait according to claim 1, in which said loading opening will allow the controlled water inlet dur- ing the dragging of the bait.

4. An artificial bait according to claim 3, in which said loading opening is adjustable having a passage light that may be set.

5. An artificial bait according to claim 4, in which said loading opening is connected to a small pierced tube prov¬ ided internally of said cavity, for the distribution insi¬ de the pasture mass of the water entering from said load- ing opening during dragging.

6. An artificial bait according anyone of claims 2 - 5, hav¬ ing a delivery outlet near the tail.

7. An artificial bait according to claim 6, in which said de¬ livery outlet is adjustable having a passage light that may beset.

8. An artificial bait according anyone of claims 2 - 5, hav¬ ing a delivery outlet provided with an ejection device of the Venturi kind.

9. An artificial bait according to any of claims 2 - 5,, be- ing of flexible plastic material, in which said delivery ourlets concist of vertical openings placed on the two sides of the body of siad fish.

10. An artificial bait for the dragging fishing, characterized in that is comprises one part of the support that may be used again when coupled with one part of solid, watersolv¬ ing material containing pasture.

11. An artificial bait according to claim 10, in which said part that can be used again comprises a part having the shape of a fish head of of a hollow calamary, and the re¬ maining part of the body being of said solid watersolving material containing the pasture.

12. An artificial bait according to claim 11, in which said head of the calamary is rotating.

13. An artificial bait according to claims 11 or 12, in which said part that can be used again comprises furthermore fringes that imitate tentacles, joint to said head.

14. An artificial bait according to claim11, in which said head is hollow and hinged on a small cage structure having the shape of the back part of the fish's body, and that may be opened by rotating the two sections thererof around the hinges, suitable for housing inside thereof that part of watersolving, solid material con- taining the pasture.

15. An artificial bait for the dragging fishing, characte¬ rized in that it contains pasture.

16. An artificial bait according to claim 15, consisting of a pre-shaped block having the shape of a fish, of solid watersolving material contaning pasturing substances, provided with means for the coupling to the end part of the fishing line carrying the hooks.

17. An artificial bait according to claim 15, consisting of a one-use vesicular or small bag container being full of pastur, having an elongated shape for imitating a fish or a small spoon.

18. An artificial bait according to claim 17, in which said vesicular container consists of a sheet of metalized or iridescent plastic sheet being full of liquid pasture that will be delivered into the water after a suitable piercing.

19. An artificial bait according to claim 17, in which said vesicular container consists of a filtering or pierced sheet, and is full of solid watersolving pasture.

20. An artificial auto-pasturing bait for the dragging fish- ing according to claims 1 - 19, according to what here- inbelow described and shown.