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Style of fishing
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In act - for about thirty years - fishing with the arpione is practiced with motorized boats called bridges or even (terminating traditional) feluche "motor. They are long between 12 and 20 meters, equipped with one, two or even three engines of different power that allows them relevant speed. The strange feature of these boats, which gives them a unique aspect is a huge tree lattice top among the 20 cd 35 meters, and a long walkway (partly as a retractable stairs Fire), protruding from the bow as a enormous and disproportionate bowsprit, a length that can vary from 20 to 40 metres. A thick tangle of wires and metal supports tree walkway, making it appear "modern" as surreal feluche fantastic animals. It is really perfect machines prey, which no fish, once sighted, can escape easily. On top of the tree are arranged levers of command and bodies engine driving the boat, operated by one or two men who, with exceptional view, insensitivity to dizziness and ample fluctuations, as well as patience and stability emotional whole test, spend whole days in search of the sword. Avvistata the prey they have from the task of properly advise the crew on deck, and directing precisely the boat along the paths volubili fish.
The lookout-helmsman will therefore have to take it on the vertical front end of the walkway, which "u lanzaturi" carefully chosen among the most skillful, could easily with extreme violence and launch its tool from top to bottom ferrare and thus its prey. Ben unlikely he missed the target. Equally impossible for the fish pierced rid dell'arpione built according to a technique refined and tested for centuries: that seems out of ten 'manufactured irons will succeed only a perfect pair: why, for ancient tradition, the blacksmith shop that builds them in jealous secret not sell them to fishermen, but entrusts him in use, receiving in return a certain part of the catch. Once arpionata the prey, the expert crew feluca (mostly consisting based family) as is done: the tip of the "iron" conficcata remained in the body of swordfish, is connected to a rope (called extend ) far more than 500 metres, which takes place from orderly convulsi board following the movements of the victim in order to make her tired and dissanguare slowly. As soon as the fish then gives the first signs of subsiding, fishermen will begin cautiously recovery acting on the rope and then using rampini robust, with whom the tie at the edge of the boat service feluca. These secondary operations are not carried by the main boat, but the small boat that it always brings trailer. This is partly because in this way the work of recovery takes place more easily, and because in the meantime the feluca has a chance to devote himself to the search for a new prey.
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