Very interesting but way too expensive.

 

 

Some of the local bait fishing striper guys would love that, just not for the price hehe.

They use little electric boats with kite strings for steering to carry bait out at the forebay.

 

i would use it for lake, bass fishing from shore but might be too far to effectively set a hook. 

drones for saltwater is to get the bait out past the last breakers where it is too far to cast or you're pulling a bait that is to heavy to case like a tuna head for sharks.

 

In the UK carp guys will use bait boats for a similar purpose on the big reservoirs.

 

braid and circle hooks largely solve the hookset issue.

I wonder if you could use a cheap remote control boat to do that.

21 minutes ago, woolleyfooley said:

I wonder if you could use a cheap remote control boat to do that.

That’s how it started.  You have to rig your own release mechanism but a downrigger clip should do it. 

I use kites helium balloons, and helium balloons attached to kites for offshore tuna fishing.  I have wanted to try a drone.  The problems I have with the drones that I have researched are.

1 battery life is not long enough.

2 Landing back on a pitching boat could be difficult.

3 Is not capable of carrying a larger hard swimming live bait.

4 Not able to withstand the abuse of constant use on the ocean.

5 To expensive to risk losing.

 

Some if not all of these problems have been resolved with a couple new fishing drones.  I'm still waiting for friends to buy one first and give it a try. 

 

Helium is  becoming more expensive and with both kites and balloons you can only fish down wind of the boat.  I don't know how many times I just get the kites out, and see the tuna crashing the surface upwind of my boat.  A drone would be perfect for much of my offshore fishing. 

An extra $2G’s …. Is going in the stock market …..