Ok, does anyone here deploy kites while on overnighters in the Northeast Canyons??? IF you do, give me some insight on your rig, and bait.... I was just thinking of this and i didn't know it anyone did it, or if it is totally pointless
IF you angled a pair of spreader lights out the back or side, so you could see the kite then i think it could be a good tool. If i understand you correctly your thinking on the chunk, if so yeah it could work maybe change the colored marker for a light stick.
You could use a kite at night, I thought about trying to as well. You will not gain all the benefits of kite fishing that you would during the day. You cannot really tell if the bait is in the water, keeping most of the line out, but it will allow you to spread your lines out and maybe get another rod out. You will most likely have to set your bait down a few feet, fishing it on the surface might be hard. You may want to try experimenting with this at dusk so you can get a feel for setting this up. I may try this out sharking before canyon season, I would like to get some more rods out in the slick so this would help, and I shark mostly at night so it would be a good time to experiment and get it down before tuna chunking starts.
good inputs guys, i just like to throw around different ideas, and this was one of them. Yea i knew i would be using one of our cordless spotlights to check on the kite, but other than that, if there is some wind, i think it might work pretty darn sweet.
I've thought about the kite at night but haven't tried it. My biggest fear would be controlling the bait. The other disadvantage would be getting the mainline tangled with the kite line. If this happened and you couldn't tell because of the darkness and you got bit, good by fish and good by kite (you're not finding the kite in the dark) I'm leery to try it but i probably will one of these days.
Not to step on anyones toes, but i really think you guys are over thinking this too much. I have flown the kites many times at night for swordfish, tarpon and even while anchored up bottom fishing. The best nights to do this are on nights where the wind and current are opposite therefore your kite baits are off one side of the boat with the wind while your chunk baits are off the other with the currrent. the advantages are huge, first of all what ever you are targeting cant really see the leader, especially tuna since they are so leader shy,second, you can add up to 3 lines in the water( but thats if you really get over eager). To solve the whole problem with the vision, just tape one of the small 2 inch glow sticks on to the middle of the kite so you can determine where it is, and then attatch regular glow sticks above the leader to determine where they are. (hint- use diffrent color glow stick for the long middle and short becaue its hard to tell at night.) if you are out on a night and you think that the kite lines will interfere with the chunking lines just add a split shot or two on the top corners of the side you want the kite to fly to and it will pull in that direction, you only need very little weight to adjust the direction of the kite so dont load it up too much.
I think it's just another thing to worry about and make you frustrated. When the fish are there they will bite on the normal chunking set up so whats the point. However, I did have success one night setting ballyhoo on my long riggers just below the surface. It produced the biggest tuners of the night. You should give it a shot tho maybe it will be the next offshore break through
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