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The past two weekends I've been going out with Tubefly . I've been exclusively sight fishing for Carp, but Bill doesn't have the patience and vicinity-fishes with an indicator. I got four carp last week and six yesterday, and lost a whole bunch more. But more importantly, I had the most shots on ...

Crowley and Mary fishing great! Midges and Hornbergs killing it at Crowley..doesn't get any better! Most fish are up at the mouth of the Owens. A long kick from the Green banks. Mary was giving up nice 14"-19" fish on black leeches with a flashback hares ear trailer stripped in 4'-8' of water. I ...

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Did my now yearly, go hike your legs off and find a creek with trout. Searched the google for a new creek and landed on 1 that looked like it should have water. With the recent rain, i deff had some water moving. First few pools didnt have anything swimming around that i could see and i wasnt ...

I just wanted to be the first one to post on a topic ahaha here's some fish from this year.

I always use waders. Even though the water temps are up, they are nowhere near 98.6 degrees. Water is very efficient at sucking the heat out of your body. I tend to fish longer than most. My buddies that try the no wader thing invariably want to leave before the Evening “ Grey Bite” my favorite part ...

Besides a lot mentioned above, I always carry gorilla vinyl repair tape and my dual action pump. It has saved a trip twice for me. If you have a slow leak or like mentioned above, temp change, the pump is helpful. The tape is when you have an obvious hole. Both times for me was throwing a big rat ...

Upper bay last weekend. Got one of these...

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Five of these....

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One of these...

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A couple of the fish were on grubs, but most on ScorcherZ.

Rigging up the night before, spent a few minutes making a beautiful bait...the leadhead had a ...

I love it when a plan comes together.

This one didn't. Fun, just not epic.

Tried to combine a long tide ride with trying out some different lures. Kicked back and forth a lot, to cast said lures into specific spots. So at the end of the day....I had no gas left to properly get after the spotties ...

When fishing very close to structure (docks, bridge pilings, rocks, brush, etc), I like to use a hand paddle to push off or make small adjustments to position. Mine has a cut out in the paddle to hook things which is useful when retrieving something dropped in the water.

Very slow day at Bonita Cove/Mariner's Basin this afternoon, just like the tide chart and barometer said it would be. But the rain kept the people away so parking wasn't too bad.
Only got a couple of spotties, but they averaged 13 inches.
One of 'em ate a bass jig (green football head, 4" spider ...

Fished Coronado early Friday morning....11 SBB and a micro halibut.
Anchored up in a shallowish spot and tried my hand at working plastics on the bottom....with a foot-and-a-half chop when the wind picked up.

Didn't work. What's weird is that I get seasick like a woodchipper when I get on a boat ...

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Good morning all!
I have been wanting to do this video for a long time and have had lots of people ask me to do it. Last week I finally purchased my first new float tube in over 19 years. I had (and still have 2) Outcast Super Fat Cat tubes that I ...

Black ABS pipe is lighter than comparably sized PVC...but costs more.
PVC pipe is what I chose. On my first build, I had a stabilizer arm going under the tube. Didn’t like it. It caught moss, eelgrass, and even dead kelp stringers. So this version has a short pipe that extends OVER the pontoon ...

DIY Rod Holder 1.jpg Thanks for all the ideas. Here's the project thus far. It's ABS (I like the look of black) and will hold six rods/pieces of gear on left side of tube. I plan to replace the nut on the bottom side of the eye bolts with eye nuts, so I can bungee from the eye nuts to D-rings ...

Only six? Pssht..... There's always the right side for six more! ;)

Here it is, about to go out on the water for a test run. I wasn't sure if it was going to tend to lean away from the tube or in towards the tube. On the water, it tends to lean in towards the tube. Probably need to use shorter ...

Looks very nice but you need to add provision for a depth finder
There is a provision, just not with the rod tubes.

I made a modified version of the Scotty 266 Float Tube Rod Adapter. The rod adapter portion was replaced with a wood block with a rail mount, then a standard fish finder transducer ...

Here's my gear list for tubing in general. I have another list specific to Barrett....
Seems like a lot but it's mostly small stuff.
And some of it stays in the truck (dry clothes, Crocs, towel) unless it's a tide ride/portage trip.


And depending on where you're headed....knowing the location of ...

Version 1.0. 3 rods right now. Gonna tinker with it and see what else I wanna do with it.

My original idea was the have that bar across the back connect to another 90degree elbow and then run a straight piece down into the water to mount a transducer on. Will probably start out simple like this ...

Added a horizontal bar on the right side to attach to the D rings. Seems like this is going to work and isn’t going to lean to one side or the other. Think I’m gonna let all the Rod turrets swivel. Cup holder on the front is going to have a magnetic dish mounted inside of it, place to keep baits and ...