I was looking at the whirly flig's silhouette as you were unhooking and it reminded me of the "devon minnow" profile, but with it separated into two parts. Back in the day I used to fish with neutral density devons, but never tried making a buoyant variation. I can see that you variation design has the ability to spin at very slow speeds and is eminently suited to fishing from the tube.
You got it. They combine color, action, vibration and floatation. At low speeds (about .5mph) those little propeller blades spin like crazy. There have been a lot of days when they made a big difference in the success. And I get almost a 100% hookup ratio. Only missed one good strike all day as I was making this video. Thanks for your comments.
trying to see the setup here.... it looks like you have a small sinker a couple feet above the flig. With the minnow on the flig, how far off the bottom would you say the bait is sitting in the water column? thanks again for a great video!
I change up the sinker according to how fast I want to go and how high I want the flig to ride. The rig I was using in the video was 1/8 oz. And I was moving at .5 to .7 mph. That would keep the baited lure pretty close to the bottom while moving...but it will rise up if I pause or stop. If I want it to ride higher, I use a 3 way sinker dropper...with about a foot of leader to the sinker and about 2' of leader to the baited flig. Depending on what species you are after and other factors you can change it up a lot. I have another video on TH-cam about rigging and fishing fligs at th-cam.com/video/0v3pDtYDsZs/w-d-xo.html
Well now, what kind of mentoring do you have in mind? Hopefully not on anything more complex than fishing. Seriously, I hav a lot of written pieces I have put together over the years...on fishing different waters...different baits and lures...different species, etc. If you will send me an email at tdude@centurylink.net I will be able to send you a few things that might help. Let me know where you live, whee you fish snd what you fish for. I'll do my best. Always like to see the younguns have a good time and catch fish.
Awesome stuff! 👌
I was looking at the whirly flig's silhouette as you were unhooking and it reminded me of the "devon minnow" profile, but with it separated into two parts. Back in the day I used to fish with neutral density devons, but never tried making a buoyant variation. I can see that you variation design has the ability to spin at very slow speeds and is eminently suited to fishing from the tube.
You got it. They combine color, action, vibration and floatation. At low speeds (about .5mph) those little propeller blades spin like crazy. There have been a lot of days when they made a big difference in the success. And I get almost a 100% hookup ratio. Only missed one good strike all day as I was making this video. Thanks for your comments.
trying to see the setup here.... it looks like you have a small sinker a couple feet above the flig. With the minnow on the flig, how far off the bottom would you say the bait is sitting in the water column? thanks again for a great video!
I change up the sinker according to how fast I want to go and how high I want the flig to ride. The rig I was using in the video was 1/8 oz. And I was moving at .5 to .7 mph. That would keep the baited lure pretty close to the bottom while moving...but it will rise up if I pause or stop. If I want it to ride higher, I use a 3 way sinker dropper...with about a foot of leader to the sinker and about 2' of leader to the baited flig. Depending on what species you are after and other factors you can change it up a lot. I have another video on TH-cam about rigging and fishing fligs at th-cam.com/video/0v3pDtYDsZs/w-d-xo.html
@@tubedude467 thank you!
How can I have you mentor me and my son.
Well now, what kind of mentoring do you have in mind? Hopefully not on anything more complex than fishing. Seriously, I hav a lot of written pieces I have put together over the years...on fishing different waters...different baits and lures...different species, etc. If you will send me an email at tdude@centurylink.net I will be able to send you a few things that might help. Let me know where you live, whee you fish snd what you fish for. I'll do my best. Always like to see the younguns have a good time and catch fish.