Authors: Ben Ruhe
Date Submitted: February 28, 2003
Article Type: Journal

Kite fishing and its perils received an airing on prime time television when ESPN Outdoors last fall showed a personal adventure by George Poveromo, a network correspondent. Poveromo told about a Florida sailfishing outing.

Poveromo and a pal were using live bait under fishing kites to tempt the West Palm Beach area’s feisty sailfish during their migration swim. The fish are very shy so bait presented from the sky and unassociated with an intrusive boat is effective.

“It was the first strike of the morning,” he recalled. “A sailfish came up and took one of the kite baits. I set the hook and he made a series of jumps and then started swimming full speed towards the boat. My instinct told me to wind on line as fast as I could to keep slack from developing in the line where the hook might fall out.

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