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Float Tube Fishing in Ireland


Having a really great time fishing from the world's best floating fishing platform
 

Float Tube Fishing Articles & Interesting Snippets

Float Tube Flyfishing for Pike in the Burren
( link to http://globalflyfisher.com )

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

Floating on Ireland - by Chris McCully
(here with permission from Chris - www.chrismccully.co.uk )

Flyfishing for Pike from Float Tubes at Ballinamore, Ireland

"Outdoor World Mag" Del Canty Interview, Oct 1978

Canty's Float Tube Fly Fishing World Records at  Flaming Gorge

Bobbing Through the Highlands - Allan Liddle
( link to Fish Wild Scotland online magazine )

Allan Liddle goes wild water tubing for trout

Float Tubing on Wild Lochs - Are You Daft Enough?
( link to Fish Wild Scotland online magazine )

Fred Carrie on how he does it and the gear he carries

VIDEO - Flyfishing for Pike from Belly Boats
( youtube trailer of Rudi Heger DVD )

Rudi Heger goes float tube fly fishing for pike

VIDEO - Fly Fishing for Pike with Rudi Heger
( youtube trailer of Rudi Heger DVD )

Take a look at the big pike striking flies in this Rudi Heger video.

Salt Water Float Tubing Bays & Estuaries
(a http://www.greenhobbymodel.com/floattubeireland/float_tube_flyfishing.html article )

The things you should take into account when planning your first
float tube salt water fishing session.

Hooked on Tubing (in LA Harbour)
( link to http://articles.latimes.com Los Angeles Times Archive )

Janet Cromley of the LA Times wrote this interesting article about
float tube anglers saltwater fishing in Los Angeles Harbour

Toothy Critters: Bite Tippets for Pike Flies
( link to http://globalflyfisher.com )

Henk Verhaar on wire traces here: my pike flies use his method
Henk's Linked Pike Streamer
( link to http://globalflyfisher.com )

Henk Verhaar makes tandem pike streamers for summer pike

Big Pike Fishing in Trout Waters
(a http://www.greenhobbymodel.com/floattubeireland/float_tube_flyfishing.html article )

Pike Fishery Management Issues in Large Managed Trout Fisheries, Size Limits, Catch & Release, Effects on the Fishing for Both Pike and Trout Anglers, Conservation of Higher Genetic Quality Trout & Pike.

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  )

MUST SEE VIDEO - Tube-Pontoon Safety and air leaks
( link to www.ventureoutdoors.net )

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!

Float Tube Trout Flyfishing in Orkney - Allan Liddle
( link to Fish Wild Scotland online magazine )

Holiday float tube loch fishing in the Scottish Highlands

The Bunny Split : Mark Dysinger
( link to http://globalflyfisher.com )

Twin Tailed Zonkers with lots of Pikey Wriggle !

Deal with Midges, Horse Flies (Clegs) & Mosquitoes
(a http://www.greenhobbymodel.com/floattubeireland/float_tube_flyfishing.html article )

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.

Float Tube Fishing Arctic Sweden - Chris McCully
(here with permission from Chris - www.chrismccully.co.uk )

Float Tube Fly Fishing for Pike in Arctic Sweden

PODCAST - Mike Andreasen talks to FlyFishRadio
( link to http://www.flyfishradio.com/ )

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.

Splayed-A-Live Pike Flies
( link to http://globalflyfisher.com )

Martin Joergensen adapts tarpon streamers into excellent pike flies

Shakespeare Expedition Float Tube
( link to Fish Wild Scotland online magazine )

A Fish-Wild Scotland online magazine tube review

VIDEO - Float Tube fishing for Bass (US)
( link to www.fishfever.com )

Jig fishing for bass from belly boat / float tube

VIDEO - Float Tube fishing for Bass (US)
( link to www.fishfever.com )

More jig fishing for bass while tubing

Exploding the "Killer wader" Myth
( link to www.sexyloops.com )

Are chest waders dangerous? Nope. Urban legends debunked here
by the author who jumps in the deep end right way up, wrong way
up and then flips his float tube and swims around with his feet and
fins still inside the tube! Must reading. Fascinating photos.

Saltwater Tubing: Cod on a Fly Rod
( link to http://globalflyfisher.com )

Martin Joergensen float tubes on the sea for Cod with fly rod and
spinning rod.

A Matter of Some Concern
( link to www.sexyloops.com )

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.

All Fish All Waters –
Fly Rod Spinner Baits, Spoons and Plugs

( link to http://www.buckeyeflyfishers.com )

A spinner-fly combination is a deadly offering. Joseph D. Cornwall
looks at developments happening in fly rod fly-spinners and fly-plugs.
Many big fish float tube fly fishers will be interested in this.

Insect Repellent Tests
( link to http://www.buckeyeflyfishers.com )

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?  Observation: he does not consider if fish
hate the smell of repellent  on line, lures, or flies
.

The killer fly
( link to http://globalflyfisher.com )

Float Tubers sometimes use big, flashy flies, like these.

Saltwater Tubing: Hammering Inshore Halibut
( link to http://www.swimbait.com )

Pete Wolf of "Big Hammer" Swimbait leadhead jigs, and fishes
inshore off the local beaches for halibut from  his belly boat.

Bass Fishing Oklahoma, Tube Bass are Bigger
( link to http://www.oklahomabassfishing.com/ )

Observations on size of bass caught by tube vs boats - Greg Myers

Fly Fishing for Perch from Float Tubes
( link to http://globalflyfisher.com )

Dutch Eddie Bourma on flies for perch and float tube perch tips