using it as a traditional long net, you hold a pin in one hand, stretch your other arm out as you pull the longnet, thus pulling the top and bottom line together, place the point of the pin through the net, a couple of holes down from where you have grabbed it, keep doing this the full length, loading the net onto the pin, lifting the last pin, place it alongside the loaded pin, piece of inner tube as an elastic band, bind the two pin ends together, wrapping and running line around the top of net, sling over shoulder and carry home, poles can be put in a carry sack, made from the leg of an old