01-19-2003, 03:41 PM
[cool] I've fished all around the LB area from a tube. In the current low water conditions, you need to learn where the channels are to get out and then work back in to cast to the fish-holding springs. You will kick a lot of rocks and risk getting stranded until you dope out the formations. Find a good spot to launch and beach, and then take it slow.
Get off the water if the wind starts to come up. Otherwise you can sustain some damage to both you and your gear if you get slapped around with those straight sided waves that beat the beach. Ask Walleyebob. He has learned far more about boat and motor repair this past season than he really wanted to.
Fishing from a float tube in skinny water, you don't have to make long casts. Use the lightest heads you can find on the size hooks needed to fish the plastics you are throwing. I make all of my own jig heads and I often use 1/16 oz. heads on size 2 to 1/0 light wire hooks. Slow fall and slow swim work better in cold water, and result in fewer snags. Those rocks down there eat tackle.
This time of year, black is also a good color. All black, black and white, black and chartreuse or black jigs with red heads. I used to throw big wooly buggers on sink tip fly lines with good success too. Tied them with mono weed guards and snaked them through the rocks and cover. One of my best colors for winter 'eyes...and big white bass...had a claret red body and black marabou tail...with black hackle wrap. These days I dress that one up with a few strands of red flashabou in the tail.
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Get off the water if the wind starts to come up. Otherwise you can sustain some damage to both you and your gear if you get slapped around with those straight sided waves that beat the beach. Ask Walleyebob. He has learned far more about boat and motor repair this past season than he really wanted to.
Fishing from a float tube in skinny water, you don't have to make long casts. Use the lightest heads you can find on the size hooks needed to fish the plastics you are throwing. I make all of my own jig heads and I often use 1/16 oz. heads on size 2 to 1/0 light wire hooks. Slow fall and slow swim work better in cold water, and result in fewer snags. Those rocks down there eat tackle.
This time of year, black is also a good color. All black, black and white, black and chartreuse or black jigs with red heads. I used to throw big wooly buggers on sink tip fly lines with good success too. Tied them with mono weed guards and snaked them through the rocks and cover. One of my best colors for winter 'eyes...and big white bass...had a claret red body and black marabou tail...with black hackle wrap. These days I dress that one up with a few strands of red flashabou in the tail.
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