New For 2008
The Slide-Diver Lite Bite uses the properties of a diver disk to take lures down and away from the boat, but allows the angler to stretch the offering well behind the diver, which instantly releases at the lightest bite from a fish.
“We like to say that as soon as your rod moves, all you have to do is remove it from the rod holder and reel,” says company president and Slide Diver inventor Randy Even, a charter captain out of Sheboygan, Wisconsin. “Basically, it’s like having a tacklebox downrigger—put one on either side of the boat and you have two more precise depth control devices that allow you to set lines as deep below and as far behind the boat as you want.”
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Slide Diver Lite Bite update #3
An issue with the fishing line coming out of the eye of the lite bite arm has come to my attention. I understand this problem only occurs when the lite bite diver is not in the water. I have worked on this and come up with a solution. Field testers and prostaffers all agree that this works very well. The beauty and simplicity of the fix is that the necessary piece of tubing is already included in your diver package. Take the vinyl tubing from the package, and cut a ¼” piece off, saving the remainder of the tubing to be used for installing in the primary arm if you are using fabric, braid or braided wire line. Install the ¼” piece of tubing as shown in the diagram below. I would suggest that you get the tubing wet prior to placing on the arm as this makes it much easier to slide onto the arm. Position the tubing on the wire so that the tubing extends just long enough to close the opening of the eye. This will allow the fisherman to get the line into the eye by slipping the line past the tubing, yet this will prevent the line from sliding out of the arm at times. The reason you want to leave the eye open is that initially when you set the primary screw, you need to stop the function of the secondary arm. The only way to do this is to not place the line in the eye of the secondary arm until after you have set the primary screw. If you have the line in the eye of the secondary arm while trying to set the primary screw, you will not know which arm caused the diver to trip or open.
About the Lite Bite
The Slide Diver Lite-Bite, like the original Slide Diver, has a mechanism that allows it to be clamped down anywhere on the fishing line. What sets the Lite Bite apart is an extra “arm” that instantly pries the release mechanism open when a fish of any size hits. Properly adjusted, the Lite-Bite can handle everything from the smallest spoons and walleye spinner rigs to the largest flashers and cut herring set-ups. Even noted that anglers who troll for virtually any species, from crappie and walleye to salmon and striped bass will benefit from the new disk.
“We’ve been testing this design for more than two years and feel it’s right where we want it to be to work perfectly every time,” says Even. “The days of towing a small fish around behind a diver without knowing it are gone for good.”
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