01-21-2003, 01:53 PM
[cool] Good anchor input, JR. I typically don't carry an anchor, but have wished I had one on some occasions.
Two things I might suggest for enhanced success for walleye, when fishing from a tube. first would be a decent sonar unit, to find structure and fish. Second would be two or three floating marker buoys to help you maintain position, once you find some fish.
On a lake of any size, you are fishing blind if you can't read the bottom contours...or find concentrations of bait or pradators. You have to drag bait or lures over a lot of real estate, hoping you just happen to find a dumb one now and then...and that you are fishing the right thing at the right depth and speed.
Once you find a flat, hump, rockpile or other fish magnet, you need to be able to focus on it. Sometimes the productive zone will be only a few feet across. Fish anywhere else and you might as well be fishing in your bathtub. If you are close enough to shore to be able to "triangulate" your position...or if you have a GPS unit...you have a chance. However, it is far better to drop a couple of buoys...slightly away from the fish...and use them for precise targeting.
I will also suggest that you practice "vertical jigging" from your float tube. This can be especially effective on deep walleyes, huddled up over a small bit of structure. You find them by dragging your bait rigs, and then drop straight down and work your jig and bait combo right in their faces. Float tubes are ideal for this kind of fishing, since you can easily maintain postion...hands free...with a few instinctive fin movements as the need arises.
If you get serious about this stuff, let me know and I will send you a supply of the special "bait bug" jigs I make for presenting worms, leeches, minnows or fish strips. Flutter spoons also work well on occasion. It's just like ice fishing, only you don't need a drill.
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Two things I might suggest for enhanced success for walleye, when fishing from a tube. first would be a decent sonar unit, to find structure and fish. Second would be two or three floating marker buoys to help you maintain position, once you find some fish.
On a lake of any size, you are fishing blind if you can't read the bottom contours...or find concentrations of bait or pradators. You have to drag bait or lures over a lot of real estate, hoping you just happen to find a dumb one now and then...and that you are fishing the right thing at the right depth and speed.
Once you find a flat, hump, rockpile or other fish magnet, you need to be able to focus on it. Sometimes the productive zone will be only a few feet across. Fish anywhere else and you might as well be fishing in your bathtub. If you are close enough to shore to be able to "triangulate" your position...or if you have a GPS unit...you have a chance. However, it is far better to drop a couple of buoys...slightly away from the fish...and use them for precise targeting.
I will also suggest that you practice "vertical jigging" from your float tube. This can be especially effective on deep walleyes, huddled up over a small bit of structure. You find them by dragging your bait rigs, and then drop straight down and work your jig and bait combo right in their faces. Float tubes are ideal for this kind of fishing, since you can easily maintain postion...hands free...with a few instinctive fin movements as the need arises.
If you get serious about this stuff, let me know and I will send you a supply of the special "bait bug" jigs I make for presenting worms, leeches, minnows or fish strips. Flutter spoons also work well on occasion. It's just like ice fishing, only you don't need a drill.
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