Hi there,just wanted to try out kite fishing.Any i

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J0HANNES

New member
Kitefisher, it was at Mazeppa Bay when I witnessed Kite fishing for the first time back in 1980.

These dudes parked their 4x4 on the lawn, close to the water edge (Think it was called the boiling pot???) facing the water, forked out their camping chairs and sat in front of their truck, harnessed himself onto the truck bull bar, and clipped the reel onto his harness.

They let the kite out first, then connected the bait line to the kite line, using a fish for bait that I can only dream to catch.

the bait was taken more than 500m away and the dropper flag was barely visible. One guy sat with a binoculars to watch it.

Unfortunately we left before they had any strikes, dont know if they landed anything. But these guys were really geared up for serious action.

;)
 
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kitefisher

Sealiner
@ Johannes,firstly ,apologies for the late reply,and secondly welcome to Sealine . Johannes that sounds about exactly right,and if they were wearing navy blue boiler/fridge plant suits, then I may well have been in the mob. lmao. longshot,but that was 100% how it was done those days .Camping at Boiling Pot on the lawn was permitted and the headman over 100 would arrange all the chiefs, cook and bottle-washers you may have needed.

Believe me ,nothing,but nothing would go missing.Fishing for kobbies into the southern bay was par for the course and anything up to 10 kg that wasn't braaied, could/would have been used for bait.

Late afternoon would see the kites reeled in and the black bag/marker replaced by a light-stick of note. In the 80's a light-stick was a commodity ,and you had better know someone in an underground/Gold mine Proto-team or you would pay through your ears. Like you say binoculars were always at the ready as well as a knife for in case those Penn Senators drags failed hehehe,(seen it happen on 120pound Dacron,but off the beach ,and luckily no ill consequences).

Incidentally the late Kenny Dalgleish landed a hmmm(stand to be corrected) 791kg GW off Boiling Pot ,and that was in the eearly 80's :welcomesea
 
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nevillebarnard

New member
Crazy Fisher, your tackle sounds spot on. I started with what i thought was strong tackle. Trini 40 and 50's. That got emptied several times. Then i moved to a Shimano TLD 50. That also got emptied. Now i have a Tiagra 50 which holds 1500yards of 80lb braid plus topshot and 80lb brake. Now im waiting to pick a big boy up. havent been lucky the last two times i went out on a session.
 
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kitefisher

Sealiner
Neville

I have been following some of your antics and articles,and it is heartwarming that people pursue kitefishing. It is too ''special'' an art to lose.
Well done
 
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Psy

Sealiner
Neville...please give me a heads-up on the type of kites you are using and where did you get them.

I am outgunned with the Mullers kite, although a well made and a good flyer...it is too cumbersome to rig up, especially in the wind.

Previous articles revisited - am having a major rethink here.

Windsong medium on order.
 
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kitefisher

Sealiner
Psy,you cant go far wrong insofar as simplicity goes with a Windsong square.

Havent checked lately but they used to have a 650x650 ,if you say Medium I take it may be 750x750. They also do upto 1000x1000 square (1mx1m) which has great pull in modest breezes.

If it's the square either onion bag as tail ,or nylon ski-rope upto 10 meters (extreme),more than likely 5-6meters should be good.
 
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Psy

Sealiner
Kitefisher, yes...they have 3 kites, small, medium and large.

I have chosen the medium kite, and am sure this will suffice for the start-up.

As Neville said, one cannot rely on one type/size kite to fly in all and every condition.

So lets see how things progress, we can only go forward from here.

_seal1_
 
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kitefisher

Sealiner
Psy

The bridle on the Windsong's can obviously be manipulated for tacking to either side,by sliding the ''o''ring type connection an inch or so either way(done in tandem with the bridle for the tail at similar distance as towing bridle)

However,you can also shorten the two top-sections of the towing-bridle a little if the wind is severe. This will make the kite fly slightly more horizontal,thus deflecting more wind at the bottom.In other words the kite will fly on a more horizontal-plane from front to back. It may sound complicated ,but you will see what I have explained when you have the kite in hand.

;)
 
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Enigma

Moderator
Also a key thing with the windsong is to rather use a 10m x 5mm ski rope. than a 5m x 12mm skirope.

The shorter rope although the same weight not only keeps the kite stable but the weight is concentrated so it doesn't flow in the wind but hangs straight down negating any adjustments made to the vertical plane and keeps the kite square into the wind and thus unmanageable in stronger winds resulting in folded kites or broken kite lines
 
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kitefisher

Sealiner
Enigma wrote:
Also a key thing with the windsong is to rather use a 10m x 5mm ski rope. than a 5m x 12mm skirope.

The shorter rope although the same weight not only keeps the kite stable but the weight is concentrated so it doesn't flow in the wind but hangs straight down negating any adjustments made to the vertical plane and keeps the kite square into the wind and thus unmanageable in stronger winds resulting in folded kites or broken kite lines
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_seal1_ Makes perfect sense Craig, :)
 
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Noweeds

Sealiner
My three windsong kites arrived today......sh!t and hair scheduled to start flying from Saturday onwards!!vguitv
 
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Goof

New member
make sure you guys dont order kites from windsong kites in shelly beach, the company went broke and the old owner Dawid Dorfling is still trying to take orders he cant supply. Therefore he is just taking Money and not giving the goods.

Make sure you order from Radical kites in jeffreys bay as they are the new supplier of windsong kites.
 
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Geronimoo

New member
Hi,

You can alos use a taxi which runs on a kite flying line up to a disgnated height and then drops your bait in the water. Depending on your kite and taxi size you can take baits up to about half a kilo out up to 500m.

Simple to construct, I will do a line drawuing of the Taxi and attach.

As far as Traces go, always go as light as possible except if you target Sharks. Generally I would say for beach fishing 10kg is heavy enough. For Sharks go 17 or 24 kg.

Enjoy.
 
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