I have actively seen sailfish dart away from a bait it was chasing. Most likely, it was the leader or the alien action of the bait. When you kite fish, your bait is dangled in just the top few inches of water keeping your leader out of sight. Hooked through the back, the baitfish stays upright and natural.
This alone will catch more fish than trolling or any other fishing method. This has been consistently proven in many major tournaments. In addition to getting more hits, a boat fisherman can get to some very good fishing spots that his boat could never manage without taking damage.
Shallow reefs and rock piles are frequently home to populations of baitfish. This makes them very attractive to predatory fish. Predatory fish makes them very attractive to fishermen but the danger keeps them away. You and fly a fishing kite more than a hundred feet and put them directly over these hard to fish spots. No worry about damage to your boat or snagging your line.
The other use of a fishing kite is to get your line past the breakers when fishing the shore. You can catch bigger fish and more varied species by getting out deeper.
This is a less common tactic in the U. The hang-up with kite fishing from shore is that you have to have the wind in the right direction. The wind will need to be coming from behind or at a real angle. If you get the right beach and the right wind, you can get a line feet out from shore and absolutely slay the fish lurking out there. This is a great method to use during Snook runs. This is mostly a cost and complication issue.
Many recreational fishermen have found the benefit of using kites for Sailfish, Wahoo, and Mahi-mahi. Commercial and tournament setups may use as many as six kites with three lines on each kite. This requires a lot of planning and preparation to run, not to mention the costs involved. Starting out, one kite with one line is perfect until you get the method down. You can add more as you grow.
Once you have your lines rigged as discussed in the previous section, the first step is to get your kite in the air. Take your time. If you get your kite in the water, it will be very hard to reel in. Feed the kite out slow and controlled, you are just looking to get it into the air and stable. At this point, attach your kite clips to the kite line around 20 to 30 feet from the kite. The ring on your mainline will clip into this clip. Set your kite reel to freespool so it takes the connection point out as far as you would like.
Keep the leader end of your line on the boat while your lines spool out, a normal distance is 75 — feet. Bait your hook using the method above and drop it into the water then take the slack out of your line.
If your bait is setup properly, it should suspend just a few inches under the surface. If the bait is not in the water you will need more weight, if the float sinks down to the water you will need less. Just like any other type of fishing, topwater hits are usually violent and quick. You will have too much slack in your line initially for a baitcliker or other device to do much good.
You have to depend on your eyes to see the hit or a movement from the float or ribbon on your line. Once you have a hit, get on your reel and get the line tight as fast as you can. The moment there is resistance, the line should drop from the kite and will gain more slack. Speed is key to getting a good hook set. Though this method is the most commonly used, some anglers will tell you it works best on billfish and other toothless fish.
They prefer a different setup for species like Kingfish and Wahoo. This method is very similar to the standard setup but leaves less slack in the line. It works well on toothy fish that eat quickly. Sometimes called Drop Line kite fishing, this method uses a line that is attached firmly to your kite line.
Often by a swivel rather than through a kite clip and ring. The quick release comes just below your bobber or flag. Much of the same rigging is used just the order changes. Attached to your kite and hanging down you will have the following items. These are ordered from closest to you kite to furthest hanging down. The shorter distance to the water gives you a much quicker hook set than the traditional setup.
For toothy fish, this is the optimal setup you just have to deal with more tangles in your kite line. The traditional setup drops away cleanly but a drop line setup will leave a long trailing line that will get tangled. While it may be possible to use a similar setup to kite fish off a beach, a different method is often used. This method is tried and true having sprang up with historic kite fishermen.
Any method will start with the wind direction. This may seem counter-intuitive as the rule is to fish the beaches when the wind is in your face. This is true but only fishing in the breakers. Because you will be out past the breakers, get that wind at your back and let your kites fly. The best time and season to find these winds is the late fall through early spring in the early morning hours. If it has been unseasonably cold the night before, all the better! The setup for shore fishing that is often preferred is a complex setup but well worth the effort.
The kite is usually the same but most people opt for a full-length rod over the shorter rods used on boats. Dacron string is preferred over fishing line mostly due to cost.
There are no clips on the kite line, you will be fastening a drop line to the kite line with a swivel. At the bottom of the dropline, most people float a large bottle partially filled with water. This allows them to easily tailor the weight to exactly what they need.
You want something that is too heavy for the kite to lift out of the water but not something that creates excess drag. Usually, the job of the kite is to keep the bait suspended at the top of the water. Not so with kite fishing from shore. The job of the kite, in this case, is to carry the float out as far as you want it. Above the bottle, most people use a number of large streamers that can be seen from a long distance.
At the bottle is your breakaway snap for when that bite occurs. Where you have one hook and one bait, on a shore rig many anglers use multiple hooks with multiple baits.
Once you have the technique mastered, all you need is the right equipment, some patience and a 10 to 15 knot wind, which is usually not too hard to come by on the open water. Gear is important for any kind of fishing, but that's especially so with kite fishing.
You're going to need some very specific and sometimes expensive components to make it all work. First and foremost, you're going to need a kite, and not just any kite.
It must be a kite specifically made for fishing. And like recreational kites, they come in a variety of shapes sizes and colors, depending on your needs. The more expensive kites are generally heavier weight, sturdier and able to withstand stronger winds.
High-speed spool reels are used, although some kite fishing rigs rely on mechanical spools to do the dirty work. The rod used with a kite rig is short, about 3 feet long, and stout.
The releases are another key piece of equipment. This is what attaches the baited line to the kite line. There are also all kinds of side items you can buy for kite fishing: Ceramic rings help reduce wear and tear on the kite line. Marker floats indicate where the bait meets the water and rod holder for when you want to kick things up a notch and use several rod-and-reel rigs per kite line.
Your best bet as a newbie is to go out on a chartered kite fishing boat and see how you do before sinking a lot of money into a rig. The southeast coast of Florida is fairly windy and known as prime kite fishing area, mainly for highly prized sailfish. The fish are biting from October through April, making it a prime "off-season" fishing destination. Because Florida is ahead of the kite fishing curve, the sport has spread across the state, with anglers on the Gulf Coast using this method in recent years.
The technique has also caught on in other locations around the world to fish for a variety of species. In fact, you can fish for pretty much any fish using the kite method. California fishermen troll the Pacific in search of large yellowfin tuna, and in the Northeast bluefin is on the menu. Invented in China, long practiced in New Guinea and other Pacific Islands, kite fishing enables off-the-beach surf anglers to deploy lines and hooks out past the breakers. Since fishing icon Bob Lewis introduced kite fishing to billfish anglers in South Florida, its popularity has grown immensely.
Bob figured out the advantages of using a kite—keeping the wiggly live bait swimming attractively just below the surface with the heavier leader line hanging vertically above the bait and out of the water, less likely to spook wary predators.
Experienced anglers multiply their chances of catching fish by flying up to three kites—each with up to three baits suspended beneath it—for a total of up to nine baits in the water.
Fishing kites are square and typically have a carbon-graphite frame across which is stretched rip-stop nylon fabric. Anglers fly kites with , or pound Spectra or Dacron line connected to a stubby rod and a powerful reel.
Electric reels are often employed, since reeling in a kite producing pounds pressure can be tiresome. Kites vary in size and weight to accommodate light to heavy winds. We suggest you carry an assortment of kites to accomodate different wind speeds and because you will need another if the kite line breaks and you lose your kite to Davy Jone's locker. Helium balloons are used in light wind to help support the kite.
As many as three baits are suspended below each kite.
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