Drone fishing…

[Dutch]

Down here in Perdido Bay I have seen several surf casters.  They say red fish are the prey.  Most get close to the water, cast the bait and let line out as they walk back to their rod holders.  One guy hooks his bait to a drone has it fly the bait where he wants it and has the drone drop it.  He is way beyond the casters.

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15 minutes ago, Dutch said:

Down here in Perdido Bay I have seen several surf casters.  They say red fish are the prey.  Most get close to the water, cast the bait and let line out as they walk back to their rod holders.  One guy hooks his bait to a drone has it fly the bait where he wants it and has the drone drop it.  He is way beyond the casters.

Before drones guys would kayak out and drop their baits.  Saw it all the time in Destin.  I've seen guys use RC boats on youtube but that was at a dam tail water.  He would run his bait right up to the base of the dam and drop it.  It was an asian guy on the Mississippi I think.  

[gotmuddy]

They make special drones for doing it.  Lots of people in texas still use kayaks.

[Dutch]

I guess I have led too much of a sheltered life.  I’ve never seen any of that stuff.

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1 hour ago, Dutch said:

I guess I have led too much of a sheltered life.  I’ve never seen any of that stuff.

I’ve seen guys run lines out with jet skis too.   They like to get over that offshore bar.  

[Terrierman]

7 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Before drones guys would kayak out and drop their baits.  Saw it all the time in Destin.  I've seen guys use RC boats on youtube but that was at a dam tail water.  He would run his bait right up to the base of the dam and drop it.  It was an asian guy on the Mississippi I think.  

I saw guys with RC boats doing that at Bagnell back in the '80's.  Went fishing in Canada in the late 1970's.  Northern Saskatchewan in early June.  Ice was not fully out on the big lake (LakeAthapapascow) where we fished for lake trout.  We camped out on an island one night.  Water was about 20 feet deep pretty far out from shore and then dropped off a cliff to I dunno, 100 feet.  Anyway you had to have bait in the deep water to catch anything and it was too far to cast.  We had two boats and took turns taking baits far enough out and dropping them.  Worked too.  Best lake trout I ever ate was that night on that island.

About the ice - the wind changed in the night and blew ice up on the side of the island where the boats were tied up.  Made for an interesting next day.  But we finally made it back to the dock.