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You e not so bad your ownself.

Then my legacy is in good hands. Thanks.

You're pretty darn good your own self. Keep up the good work.

Love back atcha.

I promise to carry you on for the rest of my life. Love you for everything grandpa ❤❤❤ ❤❤❤

Love you too Sean. It's good for me to know my legacy is in good hands.

Thanks for the kindly comments. I appreciate your appreciation. I have fished Willard going back to the late 1970s and have a pretty fair knowledge of the lake...and all of the changes it has been through. DWR has changed its program for stocking wipers up and down. Initially they were stocking far more than they do now. These days, they are hatching and planting more walleyes and fewer wipers. However, 2 years ago they stocked a lot more wipers and those started showing up in good numbers this year...up to about 16 inches. They will be larger...18-20 inchers next year and we should have a good year on wipers. However, you won't be seeing any more TH-cam posts from me. I turned 81 and am having some health issues that have ended my float tubing days...and probably fishing altogether. But it's been a fun ride and I have enjoyed sharing when I could.

Well, then it’s with a heavy heart that I read your news. God bless you and may the rest of your life on this earth be as pleasant as possible. You sir, are a gentleman.

If you search my channel you will find a couple of other videos. One is "60 Years in a Float Tube" at th-cam.com/video/Zf8_RV_8CjQ/w-d-xo.html and the other is Pimping a Float Tube.at th-cam.com/video/ORRyvtwxs6s/w-d-xo.html . I was once of the early pioneers of float tubing and have originated a lot of things...like the rod holders, adding sonar and motors, etc. But I turned 81 this year and will likely not be putting up any more videos. So hope you enjoy what I have done. Pat

Glad you like it. Hope your new ride treats you well. If you would like some detailed writeups on working with PVC, rod holders, motor mounts, etc. send me an email to tdude@centuirylink.net

Just don't tell the fish where you got them. Good luck.

@@tubedude467 haha sounds good

I do not have a big commercial operation, but i do sell some of my stuff to fellow anglers. Send me an email and let me know what you are looking for. I will send pictures and prices and I can take Paypal for mailings. email is tdude@centurylink.net

Yes they will...if you can find a concentration of perch. But perch populations have been down in Starvation for a few years. So you usually have to cover a wider area with "search" techniques to find some fish. However, I have done very well on them in the fall in the upper end of Rabbit Gulch...as well as off the exposed islands on the north side of Rabbit Gulch directly opposite of the camp area at road's end. Another good place to use this tactic is along the shoreline above the bridge and even around the pilings of the bridge. As always, it helps to have good sonar to help find the fish...and see how deep they are holding. Also, the perch in Starvation respond well to worms so you don't need minnows.

I was also wondering if you sell your lures that you make I live in Vernal I have never been up your direction before what I would love to buy some of those

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge

I don't have a big commercial operation, but I do make extras to share or sell. I work cheap and I'm worth it. I have several lure junky customers who order online and I mail their stuff to them. I take Paypal. Send me an email at tdude@centurylink.net and let me know what lures you might be interested in. I will send pics of the ones available and the prices. I also have a PDF file writeup available on Fishing Starvation. No charge.

Thanks. Glad you like my stuff. But I get all the fun of making them.

@@tubedude467 totally understand.

For wipers I like to use either 3" shad plastics or similar sized crankbaits...cast or trolled. But they hit all the baits and lures you fish for other species too. For walleyes you can use the same stuff as for wipers...but they also hit crawler rigs well at times. A jig and minnow or jig and crawler can work well too. Catfish will eat almost anything. But I like fresh cut bait (perch or carp meat), whole minnows (chubs) or nightcrawlers either alone or tipping other lures. But cats also like stuff like hot dogs and even chicken breasts soaked in red Jello.

Thanks. Practice makes perchy.

Glad you like my stuff. I might join you in your boat sometime. But on most of my tube trips I am trying out new lures or techniques that I cannot use as well from a boat. I will be trying a shot out of the south marina next Wednesday or Thursday and wouldn't mind fishing near you if you show up. But I will be working on rigging and fishing some new goodies and won't be in a social mode. After next week I will be more available for "slumming" in a boat. So send me an email at tdude@centurylink.net and we can discuss the possibilities.

Thanks. And you're welcome.

Thanks

Thanks, \Dave. Are you competing in Paris this week?

That would be great...another 3 generation float tube excursion...if we could get Sean to stay in one place long enough. I still have pics of you fighting a catfish from your float tube on Willard Bay...back in the early '80s. Planning another trip this coming Wednesday...probably inside the north marina. Will try to get enough footage for another video. In the meantime, I'll email you some fresh cat fillets. But don't leave them on your computer too long.

Ha. Just found out you are a daughter...not a son. Still glad you liked the video and the catfish dinners of old. Wish we lived closer.

If you email me at tdude@centurylink.net I can send you my contact info...including address if you'd like to visit my tackletorium where I make all my own rods, flies and lures. I fish the gulp minnows in mostly 3". I have another video that shows them and the jig heads I use. th-cam.com/video/3Djh3hyYeT8/w-d-xo.html The heads I use on the bottom of the tandem rig are little "Pistol" jigs...with small airplane blades on the front...1/8 ox. The upper jig head is u 1/8 oz. round head. Both on size 1 or 1/0 hooks. I have a couple of other videos on TH-cam you might want to look at. th-cam.com/video/lq6jivOZgCA/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/Xqtk0sPpQN4/w-d-xo.html

Thanks.

I got one inside the south marina on my last trip but didn't fish inside on this trip. But, from past experience I would say the cattin' should be good inside right now. That's where TubeBabe and I used to fish all summer....both for cats and wipers. (North Marina mostly)

Thanks. Appreciate your appreciation...and your belated birthday wish.

Silly you. Catfish can't run. They don't got legs. If they did they could run but they couldn't hide. Bwaa haa haaaa..

You're welcome. Hope you are able to work out a good system to get your own bait. Besides saving money it is nice to be able to catch fish on bait you catch yourself...or lures or flies you make yourself. Been doing that for MANY years myself and get a lot of enjoyment from it.

Yeah, i do get a small allowance but I put it in savings for when I'm older. And living in Key Largo, i do a lot of fishing, and bait is expensive for me and most of the time the bait shop i go to is closed. so the traps i use for bait has bread in it because minnows seem to like it. Or i just use a net and scoop them up.

Glad you like them. At least I get the enjoys of doing the hard work to make them come together. Tough job, but somebody's gotta do it. Right?

For the main construction frame, etc. I use schedule 40 1". It is the heavier thick wall tube. For the rod holder tubes I use thin wall type 200 1" PVC. The thin wall will hold most rod handles but if you use the heavier schedule 40 you will need 1 1/4" for the rod holders. Too heavy. Standard 1" fittings will work on both schedule 40 and type 200. Same outside diameter but greater inside diameter on the type 200.

Nice, thanks for a quick answer. Im going to try to build the "Mega mount" for my fishcat 4 lcs. What size are that pvc built of?

For any framing that requires a lot of strength, I stick with the heavier schedule 40...1". However, if you need to run a piece through the holes in the floats you will need some 3/8". If you send me an email to tdude@centurylink.net I can send you a PDF file with specs for making that mount. \But you will have to make some adjustments in size to fit the tube you are working on.

Thanks, i send you an e-mail! I really hope it will work on my tube

I expect a full (exciting) report

Thanks Tony. Are you getting out at all?

Thanks. Fun putting it together. More to come.

They are hybrids...white bass/striper cross. Both are good eating and so are wipers. The only thing I like to do is to be sure to trim the dark red flesh along the lateral line...just under the skin. Not really all that bad and some guys don't bother. A matter of personal preference. They are better fried, grilled or baked. Don't do as well in the smoker as some other species.

Congrats. You are now a fligaholic.

It's a food chain thing. Right now the walleyes are scattered and feeding along the rocks...on whatever they can find. |But, as the young perch, sunfish and even baby walleyes start schooling up in the weedy shallows on the east side of the lake the predators will move in there too. And bottom bouncing for walleyes will pick up. I'll get a few before this year is over. Gay ron teed.

Yeah. They plant it pretty heavy every fall...with "catchable" size bows. And they grow fast and large. There was not much of a harvest this winter...because of poor ice fishing conditions. So there are still a lot of "teen inchers" still available. And they are usually not too bashful or picky about what they hit.

Thanks. Deadly on multiple species. And deadly on me when I get those sharp hooks in me.

The rainbows in Deer Creek are always healthy. They grow fast and thick on a rich diet of zooplankton and other invertebrates. And their flesh is always red and tasty.

Yep. Been fishing it since the 1960s and it seldom disappoints. Fishing has changed a lot over the years but the rainbow fishery has always been good. Only real bad thing these days is the bodacious boaters...lots of skiers and wakeboarders that start at the crack of dawn so it is tough to get there early enough to avoid them. Tough to finesse fish in a tube when you are fighting north Atlantic sized swells. It ain't a "perfect" storm.

There are a lot of days when I catch more and bigger fish than any of the boats around me.

@@tubedude467 i have never seen it on your posts on bft ,just a blow hard draggin a minner with dirty mightcrawler hands and piiss in his waders.

Glad you can appreciate my system. I devised my own chest mount for my Go Pro. I can easily adjust the angle but it stays where it is set and is not subject to changing my head position. My main problem with it is forgetting where it is and getting my hands or arms in the way of shooting the action.

Lemme guess. Your IQ barely exceeds your waist size in inches. I fish from a float tube by choice. I have owned boats and fished from others' boats but still prefer the solitary and finesses aspects of tubing. For what it's worth, in my over six decades of fishing all over the western hemisphere...fresh water and salt...I would bet I have caught more species of fish than you have caught fish in total.

@@tubedude467 i dont know about the first 4 decades but the past 20 years all i have seen is draggin a minner around ,i see videos of dirty hands from crawlers and trash fish.Thats all no exotics from all over the 7 seas and the far reaches if the western hemisphere.Yes the great bloated tubeDUD,a legend in his own piss,with the high IQ.

Thanks. Glad you like it. Will be putting one out soon on making your own light plastic spinner blades...like the "Smile" blade...and my own version...the "snarl blade".

My first business venture. Didn't make a lot of money by today's standards...but that was back when a dollar was still worth at least a quarter.

Hi Sweetie. Lost contact with you and didn't know how to reach you. Send me your email address and I will have Curt contact you to get you back on the board. Miss ya. My email is tdude@centrurylink.net

Thanks again

They do work very well on some waters for some species. But in side by side comparisons they do not work as well on others. Same as any other bait. I have also done well on them at times. Same old story though. We almost always do better when we fish something with confidence.