Fishing Gear... Overview of MY Float Tube Setup 

I have owned a float tube for almost 20 years now. I love it. It's like a lounge chair on the water!

Float tubing is undoubtably the most enjoyable way to fish. My Fish Cat 4 and I have had many adventures together. Keep on tubing my friend and keep spreading the float tube love!!! 🤙🏼

Thank you making this video. I'm looking into tubes and wondering what i'm getting myself into. I really appreciate the storage and transportation aspect.

Really good video for someone just starting out with a float tube. Can really save people a lot of money. Great job. I'm gunna send it to my buddy who also just got a float tube. Thanks Jaime

Great video Jaime, I pond fish here in Texas and Oklahoma and the bank is always limited access. You just opened up a whole new world. Best of luck!

Great setup Jaime! Appreciate you sharing

I get my first float tube for my birthday this month. Super excited!! Great video for a beginner. Thanks!

Thanks for the video, and even for sharing the slip! We all have been there if you get around those banks.

thanks for the video. Im setting mine up right now.

Funny. I started out with a float tube over 10 years ago. Now I fish out of a Heritage. I thought you looked familiar. Lol!

Great video Jaime, from storing it, to set up, travel, and entering the water:) Your video is 1st i stumbled onto about float tube fishing. I saw your Ned trout fishing vid b4 this video. I know nothing of float tubes. But always wanted to try one when i was younger. You have peaked my interest in a float tube again. Maybe one day. Hey, i thought Lake Chabot was in Castro Valley. Is there another Chabot in Vallejo?

Thank you for an awesome video. I just ordered a Snowbee float tube. I hope it´s a good choice, but tbh I have no idea^^ Happy new year from Denmark! Thor.

Thank you for your help. I’m getting one here soon . Peace and love sir

I rock a kick tube also ..so relaxing and chill...subbed

Cheers for that info Jaime--looking at getting a float tube for some of the lake fishing here in NZ. Tight Lines.

Thank you for the review!

Hey any special way you put your fish finder on there? did you have to get anything extra for the battery to be safe from the water? thanks in advance

Awesome video bro tight lines

Love the baseball bag idea got to get me one 😮😮😮😮

Nice tube Mr.Astin I have a Super fat cat because I'm 6'3 250 it like paddling out a pontoon boat 🚢 Tight lines Sir..

I have the same float tube as well! I find it better to put the tube on like a diaper and back into the water for sloping shorelines like that though. Also I suggest getting Blakemore's rod floaters for when you drop your rod by accident. It might not seem too important but I lost a $150 combo while putting my fish into the keepnet once.

You need a rod holder. I have a fish basket with pool noodle zip tied around the neck to keep fish in that I catch. The noodle keeps the basket afloat. I use 12 ft of para cord to tie the tube and basket together. No worry of a puncture if I go catfishing. PS, nice videos.

I love float tube fishing. One problem I have is not liking snakes. They usually leave me alone but there is the rare time they don't.

TRANSDUCER MOUNT: A few days ago I came across one of your vids that convinced me about the utility of a Float Tube. Now that the time has come to buy one, I find myself back on your channel with some questions. My wife loves to fish on the Colorado River in Parker, AZ, but rarely has any luck catching anything, so, while at the swap meet last weekend i saw a beat up Float Tube and thought, 'Man, that is a bitchin idea. Since it was beat up I did not buy it, but I stayed focused on the idea and when i got home I found plenty on CL and Ebay. I will buy one later in the week when I find a good one at a price that works for me. Your vid convinced me about the utility of a FT. While researching the Tube Floats, I ran into Fish Finders and thought, maybe that will be an aid for my wife in locating fish? After more research, it seemed like I would have to spend another $100 to buy a fancy transducer mount for a FL until I came across a Hawkeye Fish Finder that operates on a few AA batteries with a transducer that is just tossed in the water-no mounting to anything. The more I thought about it, that unit seemed Mickey Mouse,. Today when I again came across your vid discussing how to make a battery pack using 8 AA's, I am now focusing on a Garman Stryker 4. Looking at the first YT video that brought me to your website, your introduction to FL's I noticed that you did not mount your transducer to a fancy transducer mount, however, I can't make out what you did, so here is the challenge, can you tell me and others how you made the contraption? Thanks, Joey

i also laugh when i have mishap... :P better than crying :D that's pretty cool with your fish finder.

Hey man very nice set up!!! 👍

Canadian here - this video inspired me to get a float tube last year. Best decision I ever made, Thanks I have a channel now too, check it out.

How is your fishfinder set up please Jamie? It just jumps to set up in the pocket ready. Am trying to figure out how I can carry/mount a striker 4plus to my first tube cheaply. Thanks

Does that fish finder come with it? I ask because your video is the second one I see with a similar finder.

I got me one of those tubes.. So I subscribed

How did you secure the fishfinder? Great video!

Hey nice video! I was wondering what lake that is? Also, have you ever fly fished from the tube? Thanks, Mike from New Jersey.

I think your video is great but I was looking for a view of how one sits in the thing. Thanks for the video.

Love the video Jaime! I guess you're not drinking beer while in the waders......

Very nice set up you've got there. You need to come up where I'm at and go fishing with me. Cheers

Neat!

My uncle bought the same float tube but didn't like it he gave it to me but I'm a bit on the bigger side will it still be stable?

how do you store your fish that you catch? have watched several videos but seen nothing. what do you use to keep from drifting off other than your feet?

Do you have a problem with lures snagging into your tube and puncturing your float tube? Or a big fish with sharp teeth might bitting into your tube? Maybe even bumping into sharp rocks and deflating your tube? Those are the kind of things that worry me and the reason I'm still not committing myself into buying a float tube.

where do you moslty fish ?

What kind of Battery are you using for the fish finder?

a just got a the same float tube, the caddis nevada right???

I just bought one. do u where Waiters or just swim trunks or how do you dress for that

Nice vidéo im from france Rennes

You movin. Unity. Lets jus'kill the beast . We are all the same.

How much does that raft cost

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WHAT BOAT IS THAT

You were funny.

ummmm I might be getting a float tube to fish from :)

That's it? One 37 pound aj? Last time i went for AJ's we caught a 45, a 50, and a giant 65 pounder.

Who’s better then you! Thought we lost ya towards the end?

This dude looks like Lexington Steele.

You made that look ez...

Dry that shiyite! Always.

must be nice to tube fish in local waters and not have to worry but anything attacking you like gators.. we dont tube fish here..

Really cool ,I want to get a float tube now , just subbed to you ... check out my fishing channel if you like .

I'm married tossed out the hand pump