FISHING WITH KITE AND SLED 



The sled used at Catalina is a roughly 

 made boy's sled about three feet long with 

 solid runners well tipped up in front. The 

 top of the sled instead of being solid has 

 two crossboards about six inches wide and 

 six inches apart screwed on to the runners 

 at a slight slant so that the sled will not bury 

 but will ride the waves. A strong eyebolt 

 is screwed through each top board and down 

 into the nigh runner and these are joined by 

 a light but strong rope. 



To this rope one hundred or more feet of 

 light cotton rope is attached at about one 

 third of the length of the sled from the fore 

 end of the runner. For instance, in a three 

 foot sled it would be made fast one foot from 

 the fore end. The baited line is tied as in 

 kite fishing at whatever distance you may 

 choose from the sled. The leading line is 

 then played out eighty or one hundred feet 

 and made fast to the mast, the higher up 

 the better to keep the belly of the line from 

 dragging in the water. 

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