by Marklackley » Tue Jun 25, 2013 8:09 am
No, we haven't made a first proto. We have just started thinking about how to solve the problem we have, which is this: We have had great luck with our kite lines, which we slow-troll (around 2mph) with live hardtails when the wind is right. But when there is no wind for the kite, and especially if the current is in the same direction as the wind, the kite does not work. We simply are not getting the yellowfin strikes on our flat lines or outrigger lines. When we got a little wind last week we got a good strike and landed a yellowfin on the kite line, but no other strikes the rest of the week.
So we are interested in exploring whether the answer might be a lure that looks exactly like a hardtail being skipped on the water from a kite, since that is where we've had our success. Maybe there is already a good lure already in existence, and if not we want to design and build one.