The Slide-Diver Lite Bite
New Lite Bite Designed to Outperform Traditional Diving Disks.
SHEBOYGAN, Wisc.-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."
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."
The Slide Diver Lite Bite is available in one size and clear, green and orange colors. Suggested retail price is about $20. For more information, contact Slide Diver at 920-452-9964; www.slidediver.com
Slide Diver Up date
When using braided line with the Slide Diver Lite Bite, the diver at times would tend to slide on the line. That's a problem we used to hear from users of the Slide Divers & Slide Diver Lite Bite. When using fabric or braided line, replacing the spring with the vinyl tubing has solved most of the slippage issue. The vinyl tubing is a recent addition and now comes with each #1 Slide Diver and Slide Diver Lite Bite in 2008.
The spring is for monofilament line-it creates a nice radius in which the drag weight of the diver is transmitted onto the fishing line. Monofilament, which was the line most fishermen used when the Slide Diver Lite Bite was invented, holds very well.
In some cases braided line can slip through the diver. To help prevent slippage, rotate the surgical tubing between the jaws and the arm mount 180° in either direction and set the latch arm into the jaws (see diagram at right).
The new fabric or braided fishing lines are a different story. For these lines, we have substituted the vinyl tubing for use, where the spring had previously been used and is still currently used with monofilaments. The vinyl tube is just soft enough to grab the new braided lines. One final note: Don't use the vinyl tubing with monofilament. The monofilament actually sticks too well to the vinyl and will cut it.
If slippage continues to be an issue, the surgical tubing the line passes through to be protected as the arm presses down on it can be rotated 180 degrees. Adding this along with the use of the vinyl tubing versus spring, has virtually eliminated this problem in using fabric or braided lines. There are some fishing lines that may still cause a problem when trying to use them with the Slide Diver or Slide Diver Lite Bite- they tend to have a silicone based agent and just won't work with Slide Diver or Slide Diver Lite Bite.
A issue with the fishing line coming out of the eye of the lite bite arm has come to my attention and can be solved by cutting about a ¼ inch piece of tubing from the piece of vinyl tubing that came Packed with all Slide Diver Lite Bites, sliding it onto the arm, so that the end covers the small opening. This the will keep the line in the arm and keep the lite bite working properly. Please see the photo below to see how to set this up.
Also, please check out our link on our website www.slidediver.com for previous updates and comments on the use of the divers.
U-Charters, Inc. 4226 South 13th Street Sheboygan, WI 53081 PH 920-452-9964 Fax 920-452-8859 www.slidediver.com