Utah Stillwater Fishers......Check this out!

[MOKE]

You Utah stillwater fishers think you are all tough and all, in your little float tubeys.

Here are real BIG water float tubers. You might find some truly big water float tubing pointers here. (NO flyfishing here)
HTTP://www.baytubers.com
Check out the teeth on these guys"carp" (halibut)

These guys are bait!! They float tube in the same places that White Sharks look for snacks!
Did you guys ever think how much you look like really fat seals?...no worries in Utah. But these guys float tube with the real thing!
Just a taste and your whole lower body is gone! Anyone interested?

This other site is pretty much saltwater fishing related, but it does have a fly fishing posting board, in case anyone is going "saltie".
HTTP://sport-fish-info.com
This site doesn't seem to want to come up, so try a search for All Coast Sport Fishing. This posting forum can get rather colorful at times! I havent signed up as a participant, but I do glean info for salt water FF adventures.

OUT...MOKE

(edit)RE: Baytubers.com- Read some of the threads. They are actually talking about carp in the ocean.....Whats in the Water?, thread. Its not just a Utah issue!

[Crosby]

Moke: did you ever see the show with Roland ( I have a hard time watching you) Martin- when the guide took him below Hells Canyon and stuck him in a tube with a 10 foot Sturgeon ? He was pulled around for an hour b4 the guide told him that no one had done it yet.
No sharks- but then I don't even look at the water if there are sharks.

[Mr. Loopy]

Moke- that stuff is pretty cool!

I think one of the craziest things I have seen was a TV show where there were guys fly fishing for Sharks on their boat off the coast of Florida.

[John Bell]

MMMMMMMM Halibut!

[Cary]

When I lived in SoCal, We used to float tube off of Palos Verdes. You can really work the water from a tube, much more thoroughly than from a skiff.

Those guys on that site really have the halibut fishing dialed in. It would ge a great time to tag along with them and fish with flies. FWIW, there not taking much of a chance becoming shark bait, most of the fishing is done off Long Beach inside of LA Harbor. Now, if they were fishing the Eagle Rock area off of Catalina, that would be a different story....

[Ed Kent]

Have a good friend who tubes the sea of cortez....says he has a blast fly fishing there until the sharks start circling......

[MOKE]

Cary
I surf fish with a fly rod on a substantial basis, and halibut are azzkickers on a fly rod!
These guys don't just float tube in Long Beach Harbor....they are off Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, La Jolla, Palos Verdes.....These places ALL have deep water trenches (10,000 ft deep) within 100 yards of shore. This provides for easy deep water opportunity for all species of fish.
Every single year there are odd occurences in the harbors with sharks, tuna, seals...you name it!
Have you guys seen the most recent footage of White Sharks eating a dead whale? The stuff you see on Discovery.
That was filmed off the end of the Newport Harbor Jetty. People were taking thier small plastic 'sit on' kayaks out there to see this happen.
I'm just waiting for the day that I hear that it happened...because it will happen! :(O< ------->"//////><
I grew up in Palos Verdes and was a local surfer at Lunada Bay, so I'm intimately familiar with where you are referring.
My friend fishes Catalina Island for bass and yellowtail. He was taking a swim because it was hot.
He gets back in the boat, and hooks a bass, while reeling the bass in a whitey of about 15' bagged the bass...he was just swimming there.

These guys are BAIT!

OUT...MOKE

My best halibut on a fly rod...36" 17 lbs on a 8'6" 6 wt Anchovy Clauser / Deciever. Surf Fishing from shore. Fish took with the leader knot at the tip top guide. I saw every second of the take...Awesome!

[Cary]

Lunada bay, huh?

I had a hard enough time with the locals at Hag's, let alone the militants at Lunada Bay. You must be one bad Mutha!

Anyway, I used to float tube PV cove from time to time, mostly sand & calico bass, and a few halibut, mostly shorts.

A 36 inch halibut on the fly, thats quite a fish, congrats! When I lived in SoCal, I co-owned a 19' skiff with a local guide, we were out at horsheoe one day casting or schooling barries, he ended up with a record white sea bass, I think it was finally topped last year, but it stood for about five years. You never know what will eat your fly when fishing the big pond.

-Cary

[Mike]

So Moke... Do you drop in at Truck Drivers when the swell is from the North?

[MOKE]

What a laugh that is. I could go on forever.......about bad attitude local surfers....DON'T get me going on this one!
I have surfed all the reefs from Hags to San Pedro, as well as snorkled.
I "sort of" like to think I have a feeling for whats going on in the ocean.
There is no way you would catch me out there in a float tube!
I wouldn't think twice about a pontoon boat, but a tube is nuts in the ocean!
You are dead right about never knowing what you will hook out there, I've been spooled more than once w/ heavy gear.

I recall your friends record seabass when he caught it, though I really dont keep up with records that closely. You guys were fishing Barries, and found the mixed school?
I hand built a boat, from a blank hull, a 17' Carolina Skiff, that is configured as a center console. I have built the front area to accomodate 2 fly fishers. there are no open chocks or anything to catch loose line on. Huge bow casting deck.
Powered w/ a 60 hp Merc.
Minn Kota RF Bow Motor saltwater series.
Apelco FF capable of 1200' readings.

Its a pretty sweet coast hopper and bay fishing rig! Easily runs to Catalina Island. Great for fishing kelp paddies!
I've taken it out 45 miles looking for albacore. Almost got swatted by a giant Blue Whale.

Rambling again.....MOKE

[MOKE]

Mike
Sorry...no Truck Drivers. I'm goofy foot...I go for the Dominator to the north and Avalanche on the south end of the Bay! Dominator doesnt start to break until the faces are 30' plus! (15 ft swell in local talk)
I got slammed between the boat and the cove on a wave and had to be helicoptered to the hospital, when I was about 16. OUCH...broken ribs, sprained hip, serious reef lacerations on my ribs...and hundreds of urchin spines!
Talk about paying your dues!!

Thanks for bringing up those memories again!

MOKE

The nick' of MOKE was given to me at the school on the cliff top overlooking Haggerties Reef. Malaga Cove School. Then I went to PVHS overlooking the Dominator reef. I sort of know that area.

EDIT~
You guys dragged me off topic, so here goes...you wonder where I get my stories? Real life stuff of course!
I have surfed my BOAT in waves that were at least 5' in several different places. This wasnt just rolling non breaking waves, but waves that were throwing top to bottom! I even had my wife on board..and she was loving it!
The breaks:
Boneyard @ Dana Point Harbor
Cottons Point, San Clemente
The Trestles, San Clemente

Boat surfing is rare, but practiced by a few different folks.
I saw a guy in a 22' B. Whaler w/ 2 outboards getting the stern of his boat deeply in the tube! His buddy was hanging from the side of the boat against the wave face...for added ballast. He was hanging onto the Tuna Tower and looking back into the tube.
The waves that day made a 22' boat seem small.

See what happens when you don't get to fly fish Utah as much as you would like!...MOKE

~edit~
Before I'm dismissed as a total loon, the boat surfing that I refered to was done by a very experienced surfer, at breaks that have a VERY EASY escape route via a deep water channel on the shoulder of the wave.
My skiff is designed (by the company), to be used as a surf rescue vehicle, so it is entirely stable in this environment.
I learned this game from real watermen...Lobster fishermen, who do this on a daily basis, for a living! So next time you are chowing on boiled bugs...Think about Boat Surfing...thats what it takes to get those bugs! Those Lobster fishermen are a very colorful bunch.

Anyone wanna go boating?

MOKE

[crimedog]

I just want to know if anyone in here has Float Tubed up at Rockport (I think) for Tiger Muskie. I have seen some of those. and when they hit 50 inches. Those teeth could do some serious damage if they decide to attack. I would love it if anyone has a story or knows of this happening. Personaly you will never catch me in a float tube where there are Tiger Muskie swimming around.

And Moke you are a total Loon. regardless of what you say, your definatly a few beers short of the 6 pack

[Marcy]

I used to fish in Wisconsin quite a bit - and everyone swims or water skiis in the lakes and they all have tiger muskies - northers and reagular muskies - no problems attacking people - how ever I was fishing for some blue gill had one on the line bringing it in over a weed bed and all of a sudded a flashing streak hit my fish and I only landed 1/2 of a blue gill - that was Governor Dodge out of Madison wisc. Later we fished for those tigers with bait larger than many of the trout we catch here in Utah - they can be a bit agressive. If you had one while in a float tube you probably would go for a ride-

[MOKE]

Just thought I'd slam dunk this discussion once and for all!
Nothing personal Cary.

yikes.... :(-[-o< ----->",,/////-<

http://www.apexpredators.com/sequences.asp

I believe this is imperical evidence of a gross mistake in the making!

OUT ~ --->",,//MOKE-<

WORST NIGHTMARE INDUCING WATER?
edit~
quoting Fshfanatic on private email...NOW THATS A SEAL BUGGER! LOLOL

[jer]

WOW, had so save one of them pictures as my wall paper. Great site, Moke.