These fish can be caught using cast nets and gill nets, or can be bought from local live pogie suppliers.īluefish make fantastic kite baits. Some years see more dense populations of pogies than others. Pogies call many of our local bays and harbors home during the season. Drop lines allow your main line to remain closer to the water’s surface, instead of towering high in the sky.Ĭheck out the diagram above to get a better understanding of how this all ties together. Your main running line will run through the roller kite clip. Attach a roller kite clip to the tag end of the drop line. The length of these lines will vary depending on wind conditions. Drop lines run from the ball bearing swivels, which are spaced throughout the kite reel’s braided line, down towards the ocean’s surface. The bait will swim long and with more vigor due to this small alteration in technique.īraided drop lines should also be part of an angler’s kite fishing arsenal. This way the hole pierced through the bait is much smaller than that created by traditionally hooking the bait. Instead of traditionally hooking a bait through the top of the back or through the snout, a bridle allows an elastic to be threaded through the bait-much like stitches through skin. It is vital to keep the baits alive and frisky. This is important because live pogies, mackerel and bluefish often times require a lot of time and energy to acquire. Using an elastic bridle to rig live baits will help to minimize injury to the bait. This helps keep our baits positioned happily on the surface, instead of dangling in mid air-due to the friction created by non-roller kite clips.

The rollers allow the main line coming from our 80 and 130 class reels, to slide easily through the clips with less resistance. Now, with a year of experience under our belts, we discovered that using kite clips with rollers makes life a bit easier. When we first began fishing kites we employed simple, run of the mill kite clips. A reel loaded with 2oo pound dacron can still be fished with a kite, however the bulky dacron (when compared to the thin diameter of braid) will make it more difficult to fish with a kite during light and variable wind conditions. Loading your 50, 80 or 130 class reel with braided line will also help to make kite fishing more effective and efficient.

Dacron line kite fishing