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Okay, masochists.  If anybody wants to watch an hour of float tubes and fish porn, here’s a video on my 60 years as a float tuber.  Over 200 pictures of float tubes and pontoons, rigs, fish species and different float tube venues…fresh water and salt. 

Of course a lot of it is Utah based.  But plenty of stuff from Arizona, Louisiana, Idaho and the Sea of Cortez down in Mexico.  Had fun putting it together…a  real trip down memory lane.  Hope you like it.

YouTube Link to Video

i usually dont spend an hour on the spewtube
but that was solid stuffs and made the show up in the 90's with a bucks bag tube in grandapas hand me down pontiac sunbird
and learn new waters and techniques
i used to wear the crotch outta waders from tube time finning, never had other propulsion
Thanks for including the stand up and fish like a prideless poopfisherman backing matters stuff
and keepin it real for decades

I got to Arizona before Cookie said I needed to get out of my PJs. Fasinating walk down memory lane.. Got me wanting to dig through Dads photos and reminisce a bit.  Will see if I can get to Cortez at Lunch

(11-22-2021, 01:15 PM)fishskibum Wrote: [ -> ]i usually dont spend an hour on the spewtube
but that was solid stuffs and made the show up in the 90's with a bucks bag tube in grandapas hand me down pontiac sunbird
and learn new waters and techniques
i used to wear the crotch outta waders from tube time finning, never had other propulsion
Thanks for including the stand up and fish like a prideless poopfisherman backing matters stuff
and keepin it real for decades

Thanks.  I was thinkin' on ya when I put up both the carp pics and the SUP pic.  Glad you liked 'em.

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(11-22-2021, 02:31 PM)Cowboypirate Wrote: [ -> ]I got to Arizona before Cookie said I needed to get out of my PJs. Fasinating walk down memory lane.. Got me wanting to dig through Dads photos and reminisce a bit.  Will see if I can get to Cortez at Lunch

Be careful after you cross the border.  The cartel situation has made it a bit more potentially problematic to go down there these days.   And I'm betting that a lot of the high end newly built beach homes down there are financed by drug bucks. 

In times past, you could leave your vehicle and camping gear unattended while fishing or diving.  But these days there are more and more reports of break-ins, thefts and vandalism.  Almost as bad as fishing out at Blue Lake here in Utah.

(11-21-2021, 07:11 PM)TubeDude Wrote: [ -> ]Okay, masochists.  If anybody wants to watch an hour of float tubes and fish porn, here’s a video on my 60 years as a float tuber.  Over 200 pictures of float tubes and pontoons, rigs, fish species and different float tube venues…fresh water and salt. 

Of course a lot of it is Utah based.  But plenty of stuff from Arizona, Louisiana, Idaho and the Sea of Cortez down in Mexico.  Had fun putting it together…a  real trip down memory lane.  Hope you like it.

YouTube Link to Video

Great video Pat. I was always amazed when you were breaking skim ice spring or fall to get the tube on the water. Thanks for all you do for the fishing community.

one of these days im gonna try n do baja and check the roosters off the bucket list
back before the cartels got to the point of carte blanche mayhem without much or any accountabilities
i got to go fish El Salto a large impoundment in Sinola for bucketmouths with my dad and the high country fly fisherman crew for a week




cool place and culture

its a shame they cant git that situation under control and ensure visitors safety a little better

(11-22-2021, 03:34 PM)fishskibum Wrote: [ -> ]one of these days im gonna try n do baja and check the roosters off the bucket list
back before the cartels got to the point of carte blanche mayhem without much or any accountabilities
i got to go fish El Salto a large impoundment in Sinola for bucketmouths with my dad and the high country fly fisherman crew for a week

cool place and culture

its a shame they cant git that situation under control and ensure visitors safety a little better

Yeah.  My wife and I cry real tears when we remember all the good times we had down there...BC (before cartel).  We still have friends in Arizona who pass along recent tales of woe from points south.  And we both agree we probably won't ever even try to go back down again. 

There was a fishing group I used to belong to out of southern Arizona.   Used to take the boats and RVs down every year to a little lake south of the border at Douglas.  Lake Angostura I believe.  We would launch the boats and then pull them up on the sandy beach at night...no guard needed.  Then we would put the wagons (RVs and trailers) in a circle...with a big fire pit and seats in the center...for group meals and "frivolity".  The fishing was always great.

But after we moved back up to Utah they had a bad situation one year.  A group of heavily armed men raided their camp.  They beat up the men and "abused" the women...and took everything they could find or tear loose from their vehicles.  And when the situation was reported to the federales all they got was a shrug and no attempt to even find the perpetrators.  One of the old guys in the group died a short time after they got everything back to the US...from injuries he had sustained in the raid.

The really scary thing about that country these days is that it is difficult to have any kind of protection...or any kind of justice if you suffer any kind of crime.  The cartels spread a lot of money around to the authorities...city and countrywide...to insure they remain free to do what they do.  The cartels have a policy of "plata o plomo"...silver or lead.  In other words, you have two choices...either take their money or get a bullet.

Fortunately there are some resort areas and individual operations that have high walls and 24 hour security.  It is too bad that there is a need for such harsh protective measures.

Hey Pat, enjoyed the history there, that was a lot of fun... Thanks J

(11-21-2021, 07:11 PM)TubeDude Wrote: [ -> ]Okay, masochists.  If anybody wants to watch an hour of float tubes and fish porn, here’s a video on my 60 years as a float tuber.  Over 200 pictures of float tubes and pontoons, rigs, fish species and different float tube venues…fresh water and salt. 

Of course a lot of it is Utah based.  But plenty of stuff from Arizona, Louisiana, Idaho and the Sea of Cortez down in Mexico.  Had fun putting it together…a  real trip down memory lane.  Hope you like it.

YouTube Link to Video

Thanks for sharing Pat. What a wonderful collection of memories. I have only been fishing for 40 years now. Its crazy how time flies. 
Gabe

(11-22-2021, 07:15 PM)Freakyfisherman Wrote: [ -> ]

(11-21-2021, 07:11 PM)TubeDude Wrote: [ -> ]Okay, masochists.  If anybody wants to watch an hour of float tubes and fish porn, here’s a video on my 60 years as a float tuber.  Over 200 pictures of float tubes and pontoons, rigs, fish species and different float tube venues…fresh water and salt. 

Of course a lot of it is Utah based.  But plenty of stuff from Arizona, Louisiana, Idaho and the Sea of Cortez down in Mexico.  Had fun putting it together…a  real trip down memory lane.  Hope you like it.

YouTube Link to Video

Thanks for sharing Pat. What a wonderful collection of memories. I have only been fishing for 40 years now. Its crazy how time flies. 
Gabe

As Kermit the Frog says..."See how fun times when you're having flies".  Or something like that. 

Here is my first fishing picture.  I was 4 years old and I supposedly caught those two fish from Henry's Lake in Idaho.  Don't remember it...or the picture being taken.  But my mother wouldn't lie to me.  Would she?  If that is for true then I have been actually fishing for over 70 years.  Seems like only yesterday.  But at my age I can't even remember yesterday sometimes.



One word of advice to all other anglers.  Take more pictures.  And don't do it so much for bragging as for your own rememberies in later years.  As putting together this video brought home to me, having visual records of your trips can mean a lot down the road.

Good job Pat. Good thing I was connected to WiFi for that one. Would’ve burned up all my data on one episode

(11-23-2021, 03:08 AM)EyLayo Wrote: [ -> ]Good job Pat. Good thing I was connected to WiFi for that one. Would’ve burned up all my data on one episode

Thanks.  That's why I gave the warning in advance that it is a long video.  But no popcorn provided.