so I have decided to stray away from only bottom fishing for the 2016 season… I am in the process of gearing up for slow trolling and live bait fishing… oh and the magical kite
1st: I have 2 new to me cannon downriggers.
my goal is to get away from cable. I am thinking a dacron or dyneem braid… in the 200-250lb range… oh yea I am pulling zwing 250’s instead of regular balls/pancakes. does the test/pound line sound right?
2: so with the magical kite… I am going to be using a electric reel (I’m lazy and think it will get annoying) my goal is to fly 1 kite with 2 lines off whatever side of the boat it will fly and not cross t-top… do you use a trident 3 rod holder?? or some other method?
also on both the downriggers and the kite setup I am thinking doing backing plates on rod holders especially on downriggers…or should I fix mount the downriggerd and keep 2 rod holders free?? is backing the kite rod holders advised/necessary…
3: been looking at a few reels as I have 4 new 7ft rods for slow trolling/slive baiting… I was thinking penn squall 60 or avet 6.0 both seem to be speced the same… avet is a lil more but metal body is the bonus.
I have a semi hated relationship with all things avet as the 5 I have owned all had some issue within a few trips… so I’m really torn on spending a little more for something I feel is going to let me
down… is 20lbs of full drag really all that’s needed lol…
anything I am overlooking… most of the stuff is already in hand I’m kinda down to the fitting it all together stage lol… than on to getting the boat ready for it all… my goal is to do a few dry runs in late January and pull the downriggers with artificals and fly the kite so I know what I’m kinda doing… no reason to learn when the bites hot… id rather look like an idiot when a few are around than allot lol.