b'LONGLINES, KONTIKIS Feature Sending out large baits for& TORPEDOSbigger fish is a lot easier using a drone than trying to cast from shore. Longlines, and the more popular torpedo style of fishing are a passive style of fishing which is often described as more harvesting than fishing (unlike surfcasting). You effectively bait up to 25 x hooks, then set the torpedo to tow out your traces 500m+ offshore, and leave it for half an hour to an hour, before starting up an electric winch system to wind the line back in.This method is sometimes a successful way to catch fish, but the trouble is, you dont really know if you have caught anything using such heavy gear, until the traces start coming up the beach! What this does is take away a lot of the excitement of the fish biting and fighting the fish, like you have with other forms of fishing when using a rod.You need some heavy-duty gear on the beach to make the whole thing work, the torpedo is a large heavy device, and then there is a big winch that will be needed to retrieve the backbone and traces back into the shore.Flying fishing drones is amazingly easy, most will even self-hover without any remote-control input.42FISHING IN GODZONE MAGAZINE'