Ok .
so we Went down to Gericke's , to do a bt of Kite fishing ...........................................................................
Let me Start , by saying that it is explained a lot easier on the site than it would appear.
Straight shots folks- If you In a hurry to get a line out - don't start .
Between Psy and myself , i had a line snap on me and i had to hurry off into the water to retrieve the kite . This , in water where i wanna slide for a mother shark . Brilliant .
all told ,it took us a lomng time to tack the kite in the right direction - something i must add , that it is one point where the miller's kite Excelled , in relation to Mine .
I amnot sure if i am just dumb , but the Delta was yanked around like a ragdoll at first , and i Felt the wind speed was just a tad too high to make the Kite fly stable .
as a result - it nose dived and went beserk , ditched itself into the water , and after that , had one of it's carbon sparrs work it's way through the light kite Material , somethign I am Now In the process of addressing with hi fly .The Material is Super light, but on the pressure points , and places where it'd crash , i feel this Needs to be addressed on the spot , at the fabriek .
Not all of us have Mommie's as creative as Mine that have the machine to sow new imrpoved sparr socks onto their Kites .
i have mailed them and told them accordingly .
So .
Two Methods Were used . In howling wind , the bait ferry refused point blank to take up a Mackie(small ) in a hotdog Chokka .i Was de Moer in .we then put the bigger bait ferry out , but because the kite Was flying high up , it made the trajectory of the ferry almost like going up table Mountain in the Cable Car . Nee dankie .Sa fish finally chopped the Mack and Chokka in half , and it draggged it's way up painfully to the release point . by Now we'd not let the Kite out to a required distance , as we'd been doing minor mods etc to get the thing to fly in the correct direction ( Tacking , etc.)
so , instead of letting all the line out to the pint we wanted , we got over excited to see the thing FLYING , and let out the Ferry at the incorrect distance- to our detriment .
Nou ja .
I'm telling you , that , in front of other selainer s, unless you've done this sort of thing before , the kite will either boost your Ego and make you look like a complete pro-and the locals will think you're a Stuuuud , Or- it's going to allow you to Make yourself look Like a complete and utter FOOL on the sand . ... heed my words , you have been warned ....
The Easier Method between the two , i Found , was the Bait drop Method . shorten the sinker trace , but My advice to newbies , would be to fit a swivel further down the Trace , or - even better- My idea would be to Tie Leader to Mainline with a SWIVEL .so you'll have a 9 Meter Drop to your bait and sinker .
WHY ?- Easy - It keeps the sinker Away from the KITE line - as if the two intertwine and you Try release - you'll have a sinker dangling over your Kite line and it wont Release !!!!
so hook the Release clip onto the second swivel , the start of your , say .... 0.9mm leader (6 0r 7 Meters long ), and from there down to the 3 way , with sinker one end , bait on the other . Perfeccc man... perfec....
It's gonna Look Pretty strange at first , and Might result in the Bait doing a bit of a Drag thing to the drop off point ,but , so be it . it works .even if you don't Feel comfortable with such a long drop use a shorter one , but i reckon the swivel up top , keeping the bait etc away from the kite line is CRUCIAL. someone Draw me a pic !!! Im useless at pictures unless someone is e-mailing me pics of ... oh nevermind .... !!!!
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