![]() ![]() Lauderdale.ĭaiwa and Shimano offer electric reels with enough power to bring the kite in quickly. "Some anglers spool up with 60- or 70-pound braid, although we recommend 100-pound," says Andy Novak, proprietor of LMR Tackle in Ft. The reel is spooled with heavy braid and there's a snap at the end that hooks to the kite. The rod, a veritable pool cue that's both short and stout, stays in the rod holder where the electric reel has access to power. Today's kite-fishing set up includes a specialized rod and reel. Now I can skip it along on top of the weed, beneath which the mahi are swimming." "I'll adjust it so most of it stays barely out of the water. "When I find broken-up weed, the kind that makes trolling a nightmare, I rig a single-hook ballyhoo, which I dangle from a slow-moving kite," Smith says. He'll also troll with kites when the wind's barely puffing. Sometimes Smith anchors up-current from a wreck and lets his kites carry baits downwind to the action while he drifts back flat lines and/or weighted rigs. This lets me deploy flat lines and possibly, a bottom rig behind me." "My kites stay downwind, the direction I'm drifting. "That's on a typical southeast wind," he says. Bouncer says he often drifts while fishing a kite, heading out to 250 feet of water and drifting inshore to the 100-foot mark. Baits are then added to the kite using release clips.Ĭapt. Move too fast and sails ignore your baits."Ī captain will move the boat into position over a given feature or rip line and ease his throttles back to idle, while a mate or crewmember launches the kite. I use just enough power to buck the current. So if I'm fishing three baits, I position my boat so that one bait sits in blue water and two are in the green. But in the spring, when sailfish head south to spawn the current is slower and they'll be on the dirtier, green water side of these rips. "Most anglers fish the fast-moving, clean-water side. ![]() "Rips define differences in current," says Miami's Capt. Kites work best when fished along the edge of a drop-off or along a current rip or temperature breaks that game fish follow. Originally used by islanders to set their baits away from shore, kites are now used much in the same way and keep baits away from the boat and up near the surface where they attract more attention. Kites are an indispensable part of today's offshore arsenal. ![]()
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