Bluefin Tuna Kite Fishing Techniques

by Captain Ryan Collins

BlueFin

There are numerous variations of kites in the marketplace. Some which fly with relative ease, and others which prove more difficult to get a handle on. We have had success using Boston Big Game kites, along with Power Chute and Mega Mouth fishing kites. Obviously kites need wind to operate, and the more breeze there is, the easier it will be to get your kite flying high. However, making a few modest adjustments in gear can result in a big difference in how well your kite will perform in blustery, along with calm conditions.

Utilizing a kite reel packed with 100 pound braided line has a few distinct advantages over a reel loaded with dacron. Braided line isn't going to allow any stretch, whilst providing more line strength with less line diameter. Basically this means that the kite connected to braid will lift less weight compared to the kite connected to dacron. The extra strength supplied by braid will even help ward against breaking off a kite in gusty conditions.

Loading your 50, 80 or 130 class reel with braided line can help make kite fishing more potent and efficient. A reel loaded with 2oo pound dacron can still be fished with a kite, however the bulky dacron (when compared to the thin diameter of braid) can make it more difficult to fish with a kite during calm wind conditions.

When we first began fishing kites we employed simple, run of the mill kite clips. Now, with a year of experience under our belts, we found that using kite clips with rollers makes life easier. The rollers enable the main line coming from our 80 and 130 class reels to slip very easily through the clips with less resistance. This helps keep our baits positioned happily on the water's surface, rather than dangling in mid air-due to the friction produced by non-roller kite clips.

Employing an elastic bridle to rig live baits will help to decrease the amount of damage to the bait. This is very important because live pogies, mackerel and bluefish quite often require a considerable amount of time and energy to acquire. It is important to keep the baits alive and frisky. As a substitute for traditionally hooking a bait through the top of the back or through the snout, a bridle enables an elastic to be threaded through the bait-much like stitches through skin. This way the opening pierced through the bait is significantly smaller than that created by traditionally hooking the bait. The bait will swim long and with more vigor due to this small alteration in technique.

Braided drop lines also ought to be part of an angler's kite fishing arsenal. Drop lines run from the ball bearing swivels, that are spaced throughout the kite reel's braided line, down towards the ocean's surface. The length of these lines may need to be changed depending on wind conditions. Affix a roller kite clip to the tag end of the drop line. Your main running line will pass through the roller kite clip. Drop lines allow your main line to remain closer to the water's surface, instead of towering high in the sky.



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Fishing for Striped Bass in the Cape Cod Canal

by Captain Ryan Collins

The Cape Cod Canal is amongst the most challenging and rewarding locations along the entire East Coast of America to catch striped bass. Few places on earth provide the shore bound angler a better chance at connecting with a bass in the 40 pound range. .

The man-made land cut has generated amazing fishing the past few seasons. The spring run of large striped bass has been just as impressive, if not more impressive than the famed fall migration.

If next spring is anything similar to the spring of 2011, enormous schools of trophy size striped bass should enter the canal during the second half of May. For the serious striped bass angler, the "Big Ditch," as it's referenced by canal regulars, could very well produce several of the biggest striped bass of the year.

Timing is Everything

The canal will support a population of stripers from May through October. But to really cash in on great canal fishing, an angler has to be present at the canal when a large biomass of fish moves through the land cut.

Unfortunately it is inherently tough to forecast when this will occur. However it may help to stay up to date on Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay fishing reports. Reports of huge schools of surface feeding striped bass in Buzzards Bay will frequently trickle in a few days, to a week, prior to a canal blitz.

These stripers are on a northward migration trek that often times brings them directly into the Cape Cod Canal - as opposed to the longer trip around the arm of the Cape. During this time of the year the canal is stuffed with herring, mackerel, and whiting as well as a plethora of other prey items. The canal effortlessly sets the stage for a top notch fishing opportunity.

Top-notch fishing usually occurs in stages as biomasses of bass migrate through the land cut northward into Cape Cod Bay. Often time's spectacular fishing will occur for a day or two as the school migrates through the canal. A phase of slower fishing ensues, before the next large push of bass transpires a week or so later.

I remember a Thursday morning last season when anyone who could cast a plug more than 30 feet was into big bass. It did not take long for word to get out, and by the weekend the canal was stuffed with anglers. However the biomass of stripers had quickly exited the canal late Thursday/early Friday. I did not see a single striper taken that Saturday morning.

Top Water Action

The top water bite at the canal can be downright nutty during the spring. In other words there are not many places in our neck of the woods where a shore bound angler can cast surface plugs to 30 pound bass.

With that said, not everyone will take advantage of the fantastic top water action during spring at the canal. Lengthy casts of more than 200 feet will often be needed to reach breaking stripers.

Loading the tail end of an aerodynamic surface plug with weight can noticeably increase casting distance without harming the action of the plug. Using ultra thin braided line as well as the best rods and reels money can buy will surely help. However nothing can beat perfect casting technique.

Striped bass are relatively simple to fool with top water plugs when the bass are aggressive and focused in on larger prey items such as tinker mackerel. It can be a completely different predicament if the fish are focused on smaller prey such as juvenile whiting.

On numerous occasions last season, canal fishermen witnessed smaller stripers feeding aggressively on small prey items at the crack of dawn. All efforts to hook these fish went unrewarded as it was nearly impossible to reach these breaking striped bass with a plug that matched the small stature of the bait these smaller stripers were feeding on.

However as the morning and tide progressed, the smaller prey items were replaced by mackerel. Larger bass replaced the little guys, and everyone began hooking up. Things change rapidly this time of the year at the Cape Cod canal



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