Abstract: A long-line fishing hook apparatus includes an orientation station for serially receiving and orienting hooks on snoods as the hooks are drawn by a moving long-line. Initially, the hook bend of the hooks are drawn through a hook slot in a pipe and when advanced to an angularly offset shifting slot, are deflected therethrough by a shifting bar actuated by an enlargement on each snood. This deflection guides the hook bends into a bottom-most slot which guides them past a sensor device. Deformed hooks activate the sensor to position a hook straightening assembly in the path of the traveling hooks. Hooks leaving the orientation station and/or straightening assembly subsequently are directed to a baiting mechanism to complete the readying of the long-line for re-use.

Abstract: The invention is about fastening a hook snood 6 with an endless line 1 and includes a mechanical automatic changing of broken hook snoods 6 when long-line fishing, a so called addendum apparatus.The fastening 4,14 is made as an oblong tube 4 of pliant material open to be able to grasp around the line 1, but able to close with a snap lock 11,12,13 a kind of a snap 4, which is clapped on the line 1 and locked with a hitch lock 9,11,12,13. The tube 4 can turn around the line 1. Underneath it there is a cylinder 14 fastened to the line 1, on its ends are fixed hindrances 3 which prevent movement on the line 1. On the tube 4 is a hold 5 for the snood 6. Within the hole 5 on the end of the snood 6 is a proturberance, knob 8, bigger than the hole 5 and corresponding space, knob house 7 and a seat for the knob, knob seat 18. The snood 6 can rotate in the hole 5 and thus develops a swivel, but the knob 8 prevents that the snood 6 is pulled through the hole 5.The cylinder 14 is fastened, e.g., fused to the line 1.