Float Tube Fishing in Ireland
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Float Tube Fishing Articles & Interesting Snippets
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Float Tube Flyfishing for Pike in the Burren |
Ad Swier article about Fly Fishing for Pike from a Float Tube in The Burren, in the West of Ireland with flies up to 1 foot long |
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Floating on Ireland - by Chris McCully |
Flyfishing for Pike from Float Tubes at Ballinamore, Ireland |
| Canty's Float Tube Fly Fishing World Records at Flaming Gorge | |
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Bobbing Through the Highlands - Allan Liddle |
Allan Liddle goes wild water tubing for trout |
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Float Tubing on Wild Lochs - Are You Daft Enough? |
Fred Carrie on how he does it and the gear he carries |
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VIDEO - Flyfishing for Pike from Belly Boats |
Rudi Heger goes float tube fly fishing for pike |
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VIDEO - Fly Fishing for Pike with Rudi Heger |
Take a look at the big pike striking flies in this Rudi Heger video. |
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Hooked on Tubing (in LA Harbour) |
Janet Cromley of the LA Times wrote this interesting article about float tube anglers saltwater fishing in Los Angeles Harbour |
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Toothy Critters: Bite Tippets for Pike Flies |
Henk Verhaar on wire traces here: my pike flies use his method |
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Henk's Linked Pike Streamer ( link to http://globalflyfisher.com ) |
Henk Verhaar makes tandem pike streamers for summer pike |
| Wobbly soft plastic lures, worms, shad & minnows are deadly for predator fish. Here is useful info on how to mount these lures by Bassdozer. | |
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YouTube video to Alan Hanna Fly Fishing for Trout and Pike from a Float Tube in Northern Ireland ( Click the photo to play the video ) |
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MUST SEE VIDEO -
Tube-Pontoon Safety and air leaks |
Pontoon maker Venture Outdoors made the ultimate tube safety video ... Watch how the bladders still hold air in their ends after he takes an ice pick and later a hunting knife to the toon! |
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Float Tube Trout Flyfishing in Orkney - Allan Liddle |
Holiday float tube loch fishing in the Scottish Highlands |
| Spoon jigging with the use of a sonar (for bass) by LT Bama. This is a "must read" article if you have not yet learned how to fish vertically with artificials. | |
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The Bunny Split : Mark Dysinger |
Twin Tailed Zonkers with lots of Pikey Wriggle ! |
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Deal with Midges,
Horse Flies (Clegs) & Mosquitoes |
Don't let the local wildlife spoil your fishing. Here's how to deal with biting bugs and still enjoy your day out in wild places. |
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Float Tube Fishing Arctic
Sweden - Chris McCully |
Float Tube Fly Fishing for Pike in Arctic Sweden |
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Reading Large Lake Series 1 :
Shore Topography |
How to understand what the underlying geology and shoreline topography tell you about fish distribution in large Irish Lakes |
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Reading Large Lake Series 2 :
Effects of Wind |
How to take Wind Driven Effects into account when looking at fish location in large Irish Loughs |
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Reading Large Lake Series 3: Lake Zones, Fish Migrations & Location |
What effect depth and light have on predator and prey fish distribution in Irish Loughs |
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Reading Large Lake
Series 4: Drawdown & The Tidal Zone |
How water level fluctuations from season to season affect fish location in Irish Loughs |
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Reading
Large
Lake Series 5: The Food Shelf |
Beyond the tidal zone erosion in large lakes lies the weed growing (food shelf) area where provided sunlight penetrates to the bottom fish feed and can be caught |
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Reading Large
Lake Series 6: Feeding Area Hotspots |
Putting it together for fish location in large lakes. Features within the food shelf that function as feeding areas - hotspots worthy of concentrated fishing effort. |
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Reading Large
Lake Series 7: Underwater Springs |
Power station hot water outlets are famous for the fishing there, but underwater lake springs are equally good places and most lie unfished |
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Large lake Series 8: Calm
Weather Lake Stratification |
Thermoclines, emerging thermoclines, turnover, thermometer fish location - due here soon |
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PODCAST - Mike Andreasen talks to FlyFishRadio |
Mike Andreasen's unique views on the world of stillwater float tube fly fishing. Mike talks about some of the materials and flies from his two books, Effective Lake Flies, and Productive Stillwater Flies. |
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Splayed-A-Live Pike Flies |
Martin Joergensen adapts tarpon streamers into excellent pike flies |
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VIDEO -
Float Tube fishing for Bass (US) |
Jig fishing for bass from belly boat / float tube |
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VIDEO -
Float Tube fishing for Bass (US) |
More jig fishing for bass while tubing |
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Exploding the "Killer wader" Myth |
Are chest waders dangerous? No. Urban legends debunked by the author who jumps in the deep end right way up, wrong way up, then flips his float tube and swims around with his feet and fins still inside the tube! Must reading. Fascinating photos. |
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Salt Water Float Tubing Bays
& Estuaries |
The things you should take into account when planning your first float tube salt water fishing session. |
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A
Matter of Some Concern |
Steve Parton describes problems he had (as a supplier) with float tubes that had cheap PVC (vinyl) air bladders. Steve advises tubing purchasers that urethane bladders are stronger, safer and better. |
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Shakespeare Expedition Float Tube |
A Fish-Wild Scotland online magazine tube review |
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All Fish All Waters – |
A spinner-fly combination
is a deadly offering. Joseph D. Cornwall
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Saltwater Tubing: Cod on a Fly Rod |
Martin Joergensen float tubes on the sea for Cod with fly rod and spinning rod. |
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Insect Repellent Tests |
Wm. A. Sodeman, Jr., M.D., J.D on medical research tests of insect repellents. Do they work? Which is the best formula? Which formulas did badly in tests? Are there long term health issues from using insect repellents? My Observation: he does not consider if fish hate the smell of repellent on line, lures, or flies. |
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Fishing Craft Choices and Features
Compared |
The things you should take into account when looking for a floating platform to fish from, and a water borne vehicle to get you to your fishing spot. |
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The killer fly |
Float Tubers sometimes use big, flashy flies, like these. |
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Saltwater Tubing: Hammering Inshore Halibut |
Pete Wolf of "Big Hammer" Swimbait leadhead jigs, and fishes inshore off the local beaches for halibut from his belly boat. |
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Bass Fishing Oklahoma, Tube Bass are Bigger |
Observations on size of bass caught by tube vs boats - Greg Myers |
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Fly Fishing for Perch from Float Tubes |
Dutch Eddie Bourma on flies for perch and float tube perch tips |
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Mixed Fisheries: Big Pike in Trout Waters |
Management in Large Mixed Trout-Pike Waters, Limits, Catch & Release, Implications for Pike and Trout Anglers Fishing, Conservation of High Genetic Quality Trout & Pike. |
