03-29-2005, 01:35 PM
[cool][#0000ff]My my. You don't mess around do ya? Jump right in and got all the tricks down already. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Welcome. Glad you like our little playroom. And, thanks for sharing the pic of your ride. Looks like you got some good advice "somewhere". That horizontal rod holder really makes sense if you are strictly waving the fairy wand. Really helps reduce the potential problems with "wandering line". Whenever you are casting in a breeze, you don't need upright rods grabbing on your errant line.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I like your name. I make both flies and jigs from bunny fur. Can't beat a big meaty looking fur fly for big fish...trout or nontrout.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I lived in Sacramento for a few years and fished all up and down the west coast...salmon, steelhead, stripers, sturgeon, shad...and a lot of fish that did not begin with "S". [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I did well drifting down the Sacramento River in a tube, and in fishing the "tidewaters" of some of the big salmon rivers, like the Eel. In the early fall, before the rains washed out the bar and let the water rip downstream, there were usually lots of salmon and steelhead stacked up in the slack water. A cartop pram, tube or toon was about the only way to get out to the channel, where most of the fish seemed to stay. Much fun, while watching the waders flail the water without much success.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It will probably be at least a year before I put my book to bed, once and for all, and get it into print. In the meantime, if you will PM me your email address, I will send you a list of the chapters and a few to read through.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]By the way, if you started tubing in the 80's, you are still a rookie. I started in the late 50's, from an inner tube without a cover. I made my own covers until they finally began producing them commercially. Like yourself, I spent a lot of time in a "donut" and I used up several Caddis craft. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Nobody has appreciated the explosion of "open ended" tubes more than me. There are not many times, while launching or beaching, that I do not reflect back upon how much of a pain it was to get in and out of the old donut dinghies.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]This year TubeBabe and I are going to conduct some "R & D" on both pontoons and GPS systems. Once that is finished, and the results recorded in the proper places in "the book", I will finish up the formatting and the pics and put it to bed.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I am happy that somebody actually reads and appreciates the stuff we put up on this forum. I sure wish that I had access to some of this during the years while I was thrashing around out there by myself...the first tuber on many waters, for sure. It has really been gratifying to see the growth of our sport over the past few years. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Again, welcome aboard, and we look forward to your contributions.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Welcome. Glad you like our little playroom. And, thanks for sharing the pic of your ride. Looks like you got some good advice "somewhere". That horizontal rod holder really makes sense if you are strictly waving the fairy wand. Really helps reduce the potential problems with "wandering line". Whenever you are casting in a breeze, you don't need upright rods grabbing on your errant line.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I like your name. I make both flies and jigs from bunny fur. Can't beat a big meaty looking fur fly for big fish...trout or nontrout.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I lived in Sacramento for a few years and fished all up and down the west coast...salmon, steelhead, stripers, sturgeon, shad...and a lot of fish that did not begin with "S". [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I did well drifting down the Sacramento River in a tube, and in fishing the "tidewaters" of some of the big salmon rivers, like the Eel. In the early fall, before the rains washed out the bar and let the water rip downstream, there were usually lots of salmon and steelhead stacked up in the slack water. A cartop pram, tube or toon was about the only way to get out to the channel, where most of the fish seemed to stay. Much fun, while watching the waders flail the water without much success.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It will probably be at least a year before I put my book to bed, once and for all, and get it into print. In the meantime, if you will PM me your email address, I will send you a list of the chapters and a few to read through.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]By the way, if you started tubing in the 80's, you are still a rookie. I started in the late 50's, from an inner tube without a cover. I made my own covers until they finally began producing them commercially. Like yourself, I spent a lot of time in a "donut" and I used up several Caddis craft. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Nobody has appreciated the explosion of "open ended" tubes more than me. There are not many times, while launching or beaching, that I do not reflect back upon how much of a pain it was to get in and out of the old donut dinghies.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]This year TubeBabe and I are going to conduct some "R & D" on both pontoons and GPS systems. Once that is finished, and the results recorded in the proper places in "the book", I will finish up the formatting and the pics and put it to bed.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I am happy that somebody actually reads and appreciates the stuff we put up on this forum. I sure wish that I had access to some of this during the years while I was thrashing around out there by myself...the first tuber on many waters, for sure. It has really been gratifying to see the growth of our sport over the past few years. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Again, welcome aboard, and we look forward to your contributions.[/#0000ff]
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