rednek
09-09-2010, 09:02 AM
Hi Everyone,
I have finally given up my quest to find a fishing buddy with a boat or being able to ever talk my wife into getting rid of the kids, the vacations, and the RV so that we can get our own. So, I have been doing some research on Balloon and Kite fishing and have found a lot of good stuff.
I know that most of the challenges we would face is an "offshore" wind but a lot the things I have found say that is common problem and that most guys work around the wind direction issue by flying from Pier or jetties and then "tacking" the kite against the wind. Most of the fishing kites can tack as much as 30 degrees.
My question for you all is have any of you ever tried this? Would love to learn more about how you set up (or especially built) your rig. Also would love to know what type of rig you used. Did you surface fish? Did you bottom fish?
Anyway... drop me a reply, pre-construction (cleaning my work bench from the last project) is starting today!
I have finally given up my quest to find a fishing buddy with a boat or being able to ever talk my wife into getting rid of the kids, the vacations, and the RV so that we can get our own. So, I have been doing some research on Balloon and Kite fishing and have found a lot of good stuff.
I know that most of the challenges we would face is an "offshore" wind but a lot the things I have found say that is common problem and that most guys work around the wind direction issue by flying from Pier or jetties and then "tacking" the kite against the wind. Most of the fishing kites can tack as much as 30 degrees.
My question for you all is have any of you ever tried this? Would love to learn more about how you set up (or especially built) your rig. Also would love to know what type of rig you used. Did you surface fish? Did you bottom fish?
Anyway... drop me a reply, pre-construction (cleaning my work bench from the last project) is starting today!