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Once your kite is attached, launching it is easy; leave just a little line between the kite and the tip of your rod and use the rod to leverage the kite up against the wind.
Get more line out by either letting the kite pull against the reel's drag setting or reeling the line out. If you let it free-spool out in a strong wind, it can be hard to stop (and an abrupt stop can break your line).
The trick to keeping a kite aloft is keeping a constant pressure against the wind. Gusts can be handled well by setting the reel's drag appropriately, and minor fluctuations in the wind are absorbed by the rod flexing. Dead periods between gusts can be handled by eliminating slack by pointing the rod and reeling in -- actually, you "play" the kite a lot like you would a large fish.
That's also how you bring in the kite. Move the rod tip away from the kite, then reel in as you move the rod tip toward the kite, keeping the force against the kite fairly consistent. Repeat until it's in or the tension on the line becomes low enough to simply reel it in.
Of course, if the wind dies, your kite will simply crash. If that happens, just remember to put some tension on your line as you're reeling in to avoid uneven spooling. I'll usually run the line lightly over my fingers just before it goes into the reel.
That's it. Go fly a kite!
Get more line out by either letting the kite pull against the reel's drag setting or reeling the line out. If you let it free-spool out in a strong wind, it can be hard to stop (and an abrupt stop can break your line).
The trick to keeping a kite aloft is keeping a constant pressure against the wind. Gusts can be handled well by setting the reel's drag appropriately, and minor fluctuations in the wind are absorbed by the rod flexing. Dead periods between gusts can be handled by eliminating slack by pointing the rod and reeling in -- actually, you "play" the kite a lot like you would a large fish.
That's also how you bring in the kite. Move the rod tip away from the kite, then reel in as you move the rod tip toward the kite, keeping the force against the kite fairly consistent. Repeat until it's in or the tension on the line becomes low enough to simply reel it in.
Of course, if the wind dies, your kite will simply crash. If that happens, just remember to put some tension on your line as you're reeling in to avoid uneven spooling. I'll usually run the line lightly over my fingers just before it goes into the reel.
That's it. Go fly a kite!
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