Over the years many kitefishers have found the benefits of floating baits above the bottom.

Floating beads lift the baits, flasher rigs or lures off the seabed and prevents traces becoming tangled or wrapped around the mainline.

Floating beads on your terminal tackle also prevents paddle crabs from stealing your baits while you are fishing.

The elusive and highly sought after john dory is a real sucker for floating pilchards or whole small squid.

Fishers who have used the floating baits in the past have reported a significant increase in their catches of kingfish, big snapper, kahawai and trevally.

Surprisingly, gurnard find floating baits irresistible as well.To assist kitefishers who want to deploy some of their baits off the bottom we have imported a new floating bead.

These flouro red beads are 18mm in diameter and have been given the float test for bait sizes. A single bead on a trace will float an average size bait.

Two beads are required for larger baits such as baby squid.

Fishers who do decide to use floating baits will get the maximum benefit from using a whole fish or whole small squid bait as these baits present themselves far more naturally to the targeted species than a cut strip bait.

Four or five floating baits on a longline or big dropper rig, or two or three on a Flexiwing rig, can really improve your chances of catching a good fish, particularly when crabs are a pest or the fishing is hard.

Because of the potentially larger fish you will be catching we highly recommend a minimum hook size of 5/0 on the floating baits.

Five Pack of Floating Beads Only

The new floating beads are just $4.95 for a pack of five beads for those who want to tie their own floating bead traces.

Purchase Five Pack of Pre-tied Floating Beads Here

Five Pack of Pre-tied Single Bead Floating Traces

Single Floating Beads are also available already fitted onto a complete pre-tied trace with a 5/0 hook, bead, clip and swivel tied to the right length for our trace rack.

Complete 22kg trace with clip, swivel and 5/0 Target Snapper Hook and a single bead expertly tied to fit our trace racks.

Purchase of the Five Pack of Pre-tied Single Bead Floating Traces Here

Five Pack of Pre-tied Double Bead Floating Traces

Double Floating Beads are also available already fitted onto a complete pre-tied trace with a 5/0 hook, bead, clip and swivel tied to the right length for our trace rack.

Complete 22kg trace with clip, swivel and 5/0 Target Snapper Hook and Two Floating Beads expertly tied to length to fit our trace racks.

Purchase of the Five Pack of Pre-tied Double Bead Floating Traces Here